Jabez Olssen Explained

Jabez Olssen
Birth Date:5 August 1975
Birth Place:Dunedin, New Zealand

Jabez Olssen (born 5 August 1975) is a New Zealand film and television editor who has worked extensively with director Peter Jackson.

Starting in 1998, Olssen worked in the editorial department of two television programs in New Zealand. He was then hired to work with principal editor Michael J. Horton on (directed by Peter Jackson – 2002). Olssen was ultimately credited as an "additional editor" on this film.[1] The two editors won the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for this film.[2]

Olssen said of his work "Anyway, if I never get to edit anything ever again, I can still say that I've edited scenes with Gollum in them and I've edited scenes with Darth Vader in them so, I'm good."[3]

He won an Emmy in the 2022 award ceremony for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program for his work on .[4]

Filmography

Editor

YearTitleNotes
2001Assistant editor
2002Additional editor
2005King KongAdditional editor
2007FogShort film
2008Crossing the LineShort film
2009The Lovely Bones
2012Uncredited Role: Erebor Dwarf Refugee
2013Role: Fish Monger
2014
2016
2018They Shall Not Grow Old
2021

Notes and References

  1. South Seas . Onfilm . September 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100525031506/http://www.onfilm.co.nz/editable/SouthSeas.html . 25 May 2010 .
  2. As an additional editor, Olssen did not share Horton's nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
  3. Web site: Croot . James . 2017-03-15 . Star Wars' Kiwi editor Jabez Olssen goes Rogue to secure memorable Darth moment . 2022-09-14 . Stuff . en.
  4. Web site: Klein-Nixon . Kylie . 2022-09-04 . Emmys 2022: Sir Peter Jackson's Get Back wins all five nominated categories . 2022-09-14 . Stuff . en.