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'''Antony Gibbs''' (bornsometimes credited as '''Tony Gibbs''';{{efn|Gibbs is billed as "Tony Gibbs" in ''[[The Man Without a Face]]'', ''[[Don Juan DeMarco]]'', ''[[Ronin (film)|Ronin]]'', and ''[[Reindeer Games]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tony Gibbs|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/PersonDetails/263170|website=[[American Film Institute]]|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref>}} 17 October 1925 – 26 February 2016) iswas aan BritishEnglish [[film editorediting|film and television editor]] with more than 40 feature film credits.<ref name=imdb>{{IMDbDagan name|0316626}}</ref> He was a member of the [[American Cinema Editors]] (ACE).

Gibbs' editing career began in the mid-1950s as an assistant to [[Ralph Kemplen]] and to [[Alan Osbiston]], and through them he became involved with the brief "[[British New Wave|New Wave]]" of British filmmaking at its beginnings. In particular Osbiston (and Gibbs) edited ''[[The Entertainer (film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), which was directed by [[Tony Richardson]];<ref name=Perkins /> Richardson was one of the most prominent of the British New Wave directors. Gibbs was then principal editor for several of the subsequent "New Wave" films, including Richardson's ''[[A Taste of Honey (film)|A Taste of Honey]]'' (1961), ''[[The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)|The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner]]'' (1962), and ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'' (1963),<ref name=Taylor>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Charles |title=Richardson's Lively Disaster: Waugh's ''The Loved One'' |work=[[The New York Observer]] |date=30 July 2006 |url=http://www.observer.com/node/39195 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312023925/http://www.observer.com/node/39195 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 March 2008 |quote=Richardson’s style changed abruptly with 1963’s ''Tom Jones''. He employed a commercialized version of French New Wave techniques, and the film was hugely popular, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. But the jump-cutting, the straight-to-camera digressions and the generally antic tone were wildly inappropriate for an adaptation of an 18th-century novel, and the movie has by now dated to the point of being a curio.}}</ref> and also ''[[The Knack ...and How to Get It]]'' (1965), which was directed by [[Richard Lester]].

In his 1995 book, ''Film and Video Editing'', Roger Crittenden notes the influence of this first phase of Gibbs' editing career, "The generation of American editors of which [[Dede Allen]] is a part has given considerable credit for the inspiration of their work to Antony Gibbs, the English editor of films directed by, amongst others, Tony Richardson, NicholasNicolas Roeg, and Richard Lester. There is a daring and energetic quality to Tony Gibbs' work, especially in some sequences of ''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'', ''Tom Jones'', ''The Knack'', and ''Performance'', which must have given a shot of adrenaline to aspiring editors on both sides of the Atlantic at the time. Dede ascribes her work on ''Bonnie and Clyde'' directly to the influence of Tony Gibbs."<ref>{{cite book |last=Crittenden |first=Roger |title=Film and Video Editing, Second Edition |date=28 September 1995 |pages=161–162 |isbn=978-1-85713-011-9 |publisher=Psychology Press |url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=f4rQO_sGp8AC&pg=PA161}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=LoBrutto |first=Vincent |title=Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing |year=1991 |page=78 |url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=IIoK9au88v8C&pg=PA78 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-275-93395-1 |quote=LoBrutto interview of Dede Allen: ''Were the films you edited in the 1960s influenced by the changes in film style that were coming from Europe?'' There was a definite evolution in filmic style, and it came from England. The "angry young men" films that Tony Gibbs cut, ''Look Back in Anger'' and ''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'', had more direct influence on me than anything. I loved the way those pictures were cut. It was incorporated into pictures cut in New York like ''Bonnie and Clyde''.}} Allen's recollection that Gibbs cut ''[[Look Back in Anger (1959 film)|Look Back in Anger]]'' (1958) appears to be erroneous; Richard Best edited that film.</ref> ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'' (1967) "marked a turning point in the editing of feature films that sent reverberations through the entire American cinema."<ref>{{cite book |last=Monaco |first=Paul |year=2003 |title=History of the American Cinema Volume 8: The Sixties |editor1-first=Charles |editor1-last=Harpole |publisher=University of California Press |url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=WG97toYUqagC |isbn=978-0-520-23804-6 |page=90}}</ref>

Gibbs was the "supervising editor" for Richardson's 1965 film, ''[[The Loved One (film)|The Loved One]]'', that was produced in Hollywood.<ref name=Taylor /> Gibbs relocated from England to California in about 1970.<ref name=Perkins>{{cite web |title=Gibbs, Antony Biography |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1299636/index.html |publisher=British Film Institute |work=BFI Screenonline |accessdateaccess-date=2010-10-14| archiveurlarchive-url= httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20101023184517/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1299636/index.html| archivedatearchive-date= 23 October 2010 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status deadurl= nolive}} Based on {{cite book |title=British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie |publisher=British Film Institute |last1=Perkins |first1=Roy |first2=Martin |last2=Stollery |year=2004}}</ref> From 1971&ndash;1989 he had an [[List of film director and editor collaborations|extended collaboration]] with [[Norman Jewison]] that commenced with the well-received ''[[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|Fiddler on the Roof]]'' (1971) and ultimately extended over five films. Gibbs retired from filmmaking in 2001.

Gibbs' editing of ''Tom Jones'' (1962) was nominated for an [[ACE Eddie|American Cinema Editors Eddie]] award. ''Tom Jones'' won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture#1960s|Academy Award for Best Picture]], and Richardson received the [[Academy Award for Best Director#1960s|Academy Award for Best Director]] for it. Subsequent to his "New Wave" films, Gibbs was nominated four times for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing]], for the films ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'' (directed by [[Donald Cammell]] & [[Nicolas Roeg]]-1970), ''[[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|Fiddler on the Roof]]'' ([[Norman Jewison|Jewison]]-1971), ''[[Rollerball (1975 film)|Rollerball]]'' (Jewison-1975), and ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' ([[Richard Attenborough|Attenborough]]-1975). Gibbs has never been nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Editing]]. Gibbs was nominated again for [[ACE Eddie]] awards for ''Fiddler on the Roof'' and, much later in his career, he won Eddie awards for the television films ''George Wallace (Part II)'' (1997) and for ''James Dean'' (2001). Gibbs hashad been elected to membership in the [[American Cinema Editors]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080218035827/http://www.webcitationace-filmeditors.org/5W3vTXmHEnewace/dir_Mem.html "American Cinema Editors > Members"], webpage archived by WebCite from [http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html this original URL] on 2008-03-04.</ref> and was the recipient of the [[American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award]] in 2002.

This filmography is based on the internet movie database;<ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name|0316626}}</ref> the director and release date for each film are indicated in parentheses.

# ''[[James Dean (2001 film)|James Dean]]'' ([[Mark Rydell|Rydell]]-2001) (TV)

# ''[[Don Juan DeMarco]]'' ([[Jeremy Leven|Leven]]-19951994) (as Tony Gibbs)

# ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'' ([[David Lynch|Lynch]]-1984)

# ''[[{{Interlanguage link|From a Far Country|it|3=Da un paese lontano|lt=From a Far Country]]}}'' ([[Krzysztof Zanussi|Zanussi]]-1981) (with Paolo Fabbri and Waldemar Król)

# ''[[The Birthday Party (1968 film)|The Birthday Party]]'' ([[William Friedkin|Friedkin]]-1968)

# ''[[The Luck of Ginger Coffey (film)|The Luck of Ginger Coffey]]'' ([[Irvin Kershner|Kershner]]-1964)

# ''[[During One Night]]'' ([[SidneyFurie), J. Furie|Furie]]1961)

# ''[[Offbeat (film)|Offbeat]]'' ([[Cliff Owen|Owen]]-1961)

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