Stephen Mirrione
# Stephen Mirrione

Stephen Mirrione (born February 17, 1969) is an American film editor. He is best known for winning an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic (2000).

## Life and career

Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1991. He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman's first feature films Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996), and Go (1999), which was an homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.

Mirrione has had a notable collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening of Go. About one year later, he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic (2000), which earned Mirrione an Oscar. Todd McCarthy characterized the effects of the camerawork and editing: "Soderbergh has given the film tremendous texture as well as a vibrant immediacy through constant handheld operating, mostly using available light, and manipulating the look both in shooting and in the lab. Stephen Mirrione's editing, which gives Traffic a beautifully modulated overall shape, is characterized on a moment-to-moment basis by jump cuts and jagged rhythms. Overall result is far too stylized to call the approach verite, but pic looks far more caught-on-the-run, and therefore far less staged, than all but a few other American films."

Mirrione subsequently edited all three of the Ocean's films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007)), as well as The Informant! (2009) and Contagion (2011).

Mirrione won an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award in 2006 for his editing of Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Babel, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He has been nominated four times for BAFTA Awards for editing Traffic, 21 Grams (also directed by Inarritu – 2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney-2005), and for Babel.

Mirrione has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Film | Director |
| - | - | - |
| 1994 | Getting In | Doug Liman |
| 1995 | Monster Mash: The Movie | Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow |
| 1996 | Swingers | Doug Liman |
| 1997 | Clockwatchers | Jill Sprecher |
| 1999 | Go | Doug Liman |
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Jill Sprecher |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu |
| 2004 | Criminal | Gregory Jacobs |
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | George Clooney |
| 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema (segment "Anna") | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2007 | Ocean's Thirteen | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2008 | Leatherheads | George Clooney |
| 2009 | The Informant! | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2010 | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | George Clooney |
| 2011 | Contagion | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Gary Ross |
| 2013 | Osage County | John Wells |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | George Clooney |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2017 | Suburbicon | George Clooney |
| 2020 | The Midnight Sky | George Clooney |
| 2022 | Spiderhead | Joseph Kosinski |

## Academy Awards and nominations

* 2000 – Traffic (won) Academy Award Film Editing
* 2006 – Babel (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing
* 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing

see: Academy Award for Best Film Editing

## Other awards and nominations

* 2000 – Traffic (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2000 – Traffic (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
* 2002 – Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (won) San Diego Film Critics Society SDFCS Award Best Editing
* 2003 – 21 Grams (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
* 2006 – Babel (won) Cannes Film Festival Vulcain Prize – Awarded to a technical artist by the C.S.T.
* 2006 – Babel (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2006 – Babel (won) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
* 2010 – Biutiful (nominated) 25th Goya Awards Best Editing
* 2013 – August: Osage County (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
* 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
* 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing
* 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
