A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Alan Bell
Alan E. Bell
Alan Edward Bell is an American film editor. He has edited such films as Little Manhattan, 500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, and Red Sparrow. Bell's mentor when he started working in Hollywood was editor Robert Leighton. Bell served as associate editor on multiple Rob Reiner films, all under Leighton, such as Misery, A Few Good Men, North, and The American President. Bell then graduated to main editor with films such as Reiner's The Story of Us and Alex & Emma and then started a steady stream of work in the mid-2000s, with films including Little Manhattan, Hoot, The Comebacks, 500 Days of Summer, Gulliver's Travels, and Water for Elephants. Bell then reunited with 500 Days of Summer director Marc Webb for The Amazing Spider-Man. Bell next edited The Hunger Games: Catching Fire for Water for Elephants director Francis Lawrence and then edited the remainder of the films in The Hunger Games film series, as well as Lawrence's Red Sparrow. In 2022, he worked on the film adaptation of Delia Owens' novel Where the Crawdads Sing, directed by Olivia Newman. Bell is a member of American Cinema Editors (ACE) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Edward Bell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Associate Editor:
1995 The American President
Editor:
1995 The American President
1999 The Story of Us
2000 Bait
2002 The Anarchist Cookbook
2003 Alex & Emma
2005 Little Manhattan
2006 Hoot
2007 The Comebacks
2009 (500) Days of Summer
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Red Sparrow
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing
First Assistant Editor:
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
1995 The American President
1999 The Story of Us
2000 Bait
2002 The Anarchist Cookbook
2003 Alex & Emma
2005 Little Manhattan
2006 Hoot
2007 The Comebacks
2009 (500) Days of Summer
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Red Sparrow
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing
Post Production Supervisor:
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
1995 The American President
1999 The Story of Us
2000 Bait
2002 The Anarchist Cookbook
2003 Alex & Emma
2005 Little Manhattan
2006 Hoot
2007 The Comebacks
2009 (500) Days of Summer
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Red Sparrow
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing
Supervising Editor:
1990 Misery
1992 A Few Good Men
1995 The American President
1999 The Story of Us
2000 Bait
2002 The Anarchist Cookbook
2003 Alex & Emma
2005 Little Manhattan
2006 Hoot
2007 The Comebacks
2009 (500) Days of Summer
2010 Gulliver's Travels
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2017 The Dark Tower
2018 Red Sparrow
2021 Fear Street: 1978
2021 Fear Street: 1994
2022 Where the Crawdads Sing
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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
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