Chris Dickens
# Chris Dickens

Chris Dickens (born February, 1967) is a British film and television editor. For his work on Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle, he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic.

Chris went to Hailsham Community College in his teenage years and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 1990. He worked in television for a number of years, including a stint with the director Edgar Wright on the television series Spaced. Dickens subsequently edited Wright's first feature film, Shaun of the Dead (2004). He worked again with Wright on Hot Fuzz (2007).

Dickens' editing of Slumdog Millionaire has been discussed by several critics. Peter Caranicas wrote, "'Slumdog' has a complex structure that interweaves three story strands into a single braid, yielding a rich, almost fugal narrative." In May 2017, after over three months of shooting, Dickens was replaced as the editor of the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2002 | Sirens | Nick Laughland | |
| 2002 | Cruise of the Gods | Declan Lowney | |
| 2002 | Lenny Blue | Andy Wilson | |
| 2003 | Hello Friend | Graham Linehan | |
| 2004 | Seed of Chucky | Don Mancini | |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | Edgar Wright | |
| 2005 | Goal! | Danny Cannon | |
| 2006 | Gone | Ringan Ledwidge | |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Edgar Wright | |
| 2008 | A Complete History of My Sexual Failures | Chris Waitt | |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Academy Award for Best Film Editing BAFTA Award for Best Editing American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 2009 | Free Agents | Richard Laxton | |
| 2010 | Submarine | Richard Ayoade | |
| 2011 | Paul | Greg Mottola | |
| 2012 | Berberian Sound Studio | Peter Strickland | |
| 2012 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 2013 | Wizard's Way | Metal Man | |
| 2013 | The Double | Richard Ayoade | Co-editor |
| 2014 | Suite Française | Saul Dibb | |
| 2015 | Macbeth | Justin Kurzel | |
| 2016 | Genius | Michael Grandage | |
| 2017 | The Man with the Iron Heart | Cédric Jimenez | |
| 2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Josie Rourke | |
| 2019 | Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | |
| 2022 | My Policeman | Michael Grandage | |
