John Michael Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton, The Bourne Legacy, Warrior, Pacific Rim, Nightcrawler and Suicide Squad.
Life and career
Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker. He is the twin brother of screenwriter-director Dan Gilroy and the brother of screenwriter-director Tony Gilroy.Frank D. Gilroy Biography (1925-)Tony Gilroy Biography ((?)-) He has two daughters: Carolyn, born in 1990, and Taylor, born in 1992.
John did not originally plan to enter the film industry. He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school, but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardner's play The Goodbye People. He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s, including Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Gardens of Stone (1987). His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Man in the World (1989), which was written and directed by his father.
Gilroy also edited films including Billy Madison (1995), Shadow Magic (2000), Suspect Zero (2004) and Trust the Man (2005). He worked with his brother Tony Gilroy, a screenwriter and director, for the first time on Tony's film Michael Clayton (2007). The film received seven Academy Award nominations and John's editing was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity (2009) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). In 2014 John worked with his other brother, fraternal twin Dan Gilroy, also a screenwriter and director, as the editor of Nightcrawler, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing. He has edited films for every member of his immediate family—his father and both brothers—except his mother. He has also worked often with director Gavin O'Connor, and edited Phillip Noyce's Salt (2010) and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013).
Filmography Films Year Film Director Notes1989The Luckiest Man in the WorldFrank D. Gilroy1993Who's the Man?Ted DemmeCo-edited with Jeffrey Wolf1995Billy MadisonTamra Davis1999TumbleweedsGavin O'ConnorGame DaySteve Klein2000Shadow MagicAnn HuCo-edited with Keith Reamer2002NarcJoe CarnahanCrazy Little ThingMatthew Miller2004MiracleGavin O'ConnorCo-edited with Daric LooSuspect ZeroE. Elias MerhigeCo-edited with Robert K. Lambert2005Trust the ManBart Freundlich2007First BornIsaac WebbMichael ClaytonTony GilroyNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing2008Pride and GloryGavin O'ConnorCo-edited with Lisa Zeno Churgin2009DuplicityTony Gilroy2010SaltPhilip NoyceCo-edited with Stuart Baird2011WarriorGavin O'ConnorCo-edited with Aaron Marshall, Matt Chesse and Sean Albertson2012The Bourne LegacyTony Gilroy2013Pacific RimGuillermo del ToroCo-edited with Peter Amundson2014NightcrawlerDan GilroyNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing2016Suicide SquadDavid AyerRogue OneGareth EdwardsCo-edited with Colin Goudie and Jabez Olssen2017Roman J. Israel, Esq.Dan Gilroy2019Velvet Buzzsaw2026Behemoth!Tony GilroyAlso producer
Television series Year Television series Creator Editor Producer Notes2022–2025Andor 8 episodesFourth collaboration with Tony and Dan GilroyCo-edited with Tim Porter
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