About
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor and executive producer. He has helmed the editorial department in over 40 films in a career spanning over four decades, and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing twice. A frequent collaborator of filmmakers like Tony Scott and Tim Burton, Lebenzon made his film debut in the 1981 crime horror Wolfen. His work in the romantic action drama film Top Gun (1986) earned Lebenzon his first Academy Award nomination in 1987, and nine years later, the editor landed his second Oscar nomination for his work in Crimson Tide (1995). Days of Thunder (1990), Enemy of the State (1998), Deja Vu (2006) and Unstoppable (2010) are some of Lebenzon's notable associations with Tony Scott, while Batman Returns (1992), Ed Wood (1994), Big Fish (2003), Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) are some of the Tim Burton films he worked in. Other notable editorial credits include Con Air (1997), Planet of the Apes (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and the 2017 disaster film Geostorm.