Angels and Demons

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Picture Editor

Mike Hill

Bio

DAN HANLEY, A.C.E. and MIKE HILL, A.C.E. continue their long-standing association with Ron Howard, which began when they edited Howard’s 1982 film Night Shift. The duo has edited Howard’s successive pictures, including the Academy Award®-winning A Beautiful Mind, for which they received an Eddie nomination from the American Cinema Editors; Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, EDtv, Ransom, Far and Away, The Paper, Backdraft, Parenthood, Willow, Gung Ho, Cocoon, Apollo 13, for which the pair won the 1995 Academy Award® for Best Editing; The Missing, Cinderella Man, for which they received another Oscar® nomination, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/Nixon. Other shared feature credits include Armed and Dangerous, Pet Sematary and Problem Child. Hanley also co-edited the movies In & Out and Cop and a Half, while Hill served as co-editor on What’s Love Gotta Do With It? The partners come from decidedly different backgrounds. Hanley is a third-generation editor. His grandfather cut trailers at RKO and his father was an ADR editor at Paramount Studios. Hanley joined Paramount as an apprentice in 1975, working on his first feature, Marathon Man. He subsequently formed an alliance with Bob Kern who worked with Howard on this TV features. This led to Hanley’s work on Night Shift and his association with Hill. Hill hails from Omaha, Nebraska, where he attended the University of Nebraska. Following college, he relocated to California and applied for membership in several industry guilds, eventually joining the editors’ union. He also began his career working at Paramount as an apprentice editor on Elia Kazan’s final picture, The Last Tycoon. He met Hanley on the studio lot and joined his colleague under Kern’s tutelage.