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Matt Chesse is a Editor American born on 27 october 1965

Matt Chesse

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Birth name Matthew Chessé
Nationality USA
Birth 27 october 1965 (58 years)

Matt Chesse is an American film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with Independent films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Finding Neverland (2004). Chesse has edited most of the films directed by Marc Forster, including the recent James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008).

Chesse was born and raised in the San Francisco area, and received a bachelor's degree in English literature from San Francisco State University. After college he was invited to relocate to Los Angeles to assist Peter Kagan, a director of commercials, at Stiefel and Co.. He next worked as an assistant to Angus Wall, an editor at the commercial editorial shop Rock, Paper, Scissors. Chesse became an editor under the tutelage of David Lee and Lauren Zuckerman. His first project with Marc Forster was on the film Everything Put Together (2000), which led to their collaboration on the very successful film Monster's Ball (2001).

Chesse has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.

He has been nominated, for an Oscar in 2005: Best Achievement in Editing for Finding Neverland(2004), an Eddie in 2005: Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic for Finding Neverland (2004), and a Satellite Award in 2008: Best Film Editing for Quantum of Solace (2008) which he shared with: Richard Pearson)

Best films

Quantum of Solace (2008)
(Editor)
World War Z (2013)
(Editor)
Finding Neverland (2004)
(Editor)
The Kite Runner (2007)
(Editor)
Monster's Ball (2001)
(Editor)
Warrior (2011)
(Editor)

Usually with

Marc Forster
Marc Forster
(10 films)
Joel Edgerton
Joel Edgerton
(2 films)
Scott Coffey
Scott Coffey
(1 films)
Will Rokos
Will Rokos
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Matt Chesse (16 films)

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Editor

Christopher Robin, 1h43
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Jim Cummings, Mark Gatiss, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Mohammed
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.601653.601653.601653.601653.60165
Jean-Christophe, le petit garçon des aventures de Winnie l'ourson, est désormais adulte, marié à Evelyn et père d'une fille nommée Madeleine. Avec l'âge, Jean-Christophe a perdu toute son imagination. Winnie et ses amis Porcinet, Tigrou, Coco Lapin, Bourriquet, Maman Gourou, Petit Gourou et Maître Hibou reviennent alors dans sa vie pour l'aider à retrouver son âme d'enfant.
Money Monster, 1h38
Directed by Jodie Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Psychologie, Films about television
Actors Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Lenny Venito
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.249173.249173.249173.249173.24917
Financial TV personality Lee Gates, who offers up stock advice on his hit show "Money Monster," is held hostage by a viewer, Kyle Budwell, who lost all of his money following a bad tip from Lee during his show.
The Gift
The Gift (2015)
, 1h48
Directed by Joel Edgerton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Psychologie
Actors Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, David Denman, Tim Griffin, Beau Knapp
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.4973553.4973553.4973553.4973553.497355
A married couple, Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn Callum (Rebecca Hall), relocate from Chicago to a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood after Simon finds a new job. While out shopping, they run into Gordon "Gordo" Moseley (Joel Edgerton), of Simon's former high school classmate. Soon after, Gordo begins dropping in unannounced, usually when Simon is at work, and sends many gifts including koi fish for Robyn's empty pond.
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss (2014)
, 1h56
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Ron Livingston, Michelle Monaghan, Pablo Schreiber, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Dash Mihok, Freddy Rodríguez
Rating63% 3.199153.199153.199153.199153.19915
La vie d'une femme soldat de retour au pays. La garde de son enfant devient problématique.
The Best of Me, 1h58
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, Luke Bracey, Gerald McRaney, Clarke Peters
Roles Editor
Rating67% 3.361753.361753.361753.361753.36175
Dawson Cole (James Marsden) works on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. One day, an explosion on the job nearly kills him, throwing him into the water, but miraculously, he survives. Months later after recovering, Dawson learns that his close friend and surrogate father, Tuck Hostetler (Gerald McRaney), has died and returns home for the first time in almost twenty years to carry out Tuck's final wishes. When he arrives at his house, Dawson is surprised to find that Tuck also arranged for Dawson's high school girlfriend, Amanda Collier (Michelle Monaghan), to join him. It seems that Tuck's intention was that Dawson and Amanda would perhaps rekindle their former romance. However, Amanda is now married.
World War Z, 1h56
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about children, La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox, Ludi Boeken, David Andrews
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.4980553.4980553.4980553.4980553.498055
A zombie outbreak erupts in metropolitan areas around the world; those bitten by the creatures become zombies themselves within twelve seconds. Retired UN investigator Gerry Lane, his wife Karen, and their two daughters manage to escape the outbreak in Philadelphia and take shelter with a family in Newark while waiting for special evacuation the next day, thanks to Gerry's friend UN Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umuntoni. They find a shelter for the night while waiting for a rescue helicopter. Their hosts choose not to accompany them when they flee the next day, and are subsequently bitten and changed by zombies. Their son, Tommy, manages to escape, and Gerry's family takes him in. They are flown to an offshore U.S. Navy carrier group near New York where Umuntoni is overseeing the remaining worldwide governments' reactions.
Machine Gun Preacher, 2h9
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about religion
Actors Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker, Madeline Carroll, Souleymane Sy Savane
Roles Editor
Rating67% 3.3501653.3501653.3501653.3501653.350165
Although the film centers on Childers, it starts off with a scene in South Sudan, where the LRA are attacking a village. This opening scene is placed into context later in the film. Childers was an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania. On his release from prison, he finds that his wife has given up her job as a stripper, because she has since become a Christian. Eventually, after he almost kills a vagrant the night before, his wife persuades him to go to church with her, where he is eventually converted.
Warrior
Warrior (2011)
, 2h20
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Combat libre
Actors Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick Nolte, Kevin Dunn
Roles Editor
Rating80% 4.048664.048664.048664.048664.04866
U.S. Marine Tommy Riordan visits his father, Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte), a recovering alcoholic who has returned to his Catholic faith. Tommy had to run away from Paddy with his dying mother when he was just a boy due to Paddy having previously been an abusive alcoholic, and has never quite forgiven him. Paddy tries to convince him that he has changed, but to no avail. The next day, Tommy enters a gym where he beats a professional fighter named Pete "Mad Dog" Grimes (Erik Apple) unconscious in less than 30 seconds, in a fight which is filmed via a cell phone's video camera and later uploaded to the Internet, where it goes viral. Tommy learns about a winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament called Sparta in which the winner will receive $5,000,000. Tommy asks his father to help him train for the tournament, but only under the condition that Paddy does not try to reconcile their relationship.
Quantum of Solace, 1h46
Directed by Michael G. Wilson, Marc Forster, Barbara Broccoli
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about children, Environmental films, Spy films, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Political films, Eco-terrorism in fiction
Actors Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.248593.248593.248593.248593.24859
James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organization, Quantum. M's bodyguard Craig Mitchell, a double agent, attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills him. Bond and M return to London and search Mitchell's flat, discovering through tagged banknotes that Mitchell had a contact in Haiti. Bond tracks the contact, Edmund Slate, and learns that Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, environmentalist Dominic Greene. While observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping an exiled Bolivian General, Medrano—who murdered Camille's family—to overthrow his government and become the new president in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
The Kite Runner, 2h8
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Atossa Leoni, Saïd Taghmaoui
Roles Editor
Rating75% 3.7980153.7980153.7980153.7980153.798015
The film opens with an Afghan-American writer Amir Qadiri (Khalid Abdalla) and his wife, Soraya (Atossa Leoni), who are watching children flying kites at a bayside park. When they arrive home, Amir finds waiting for him packages of his new novel, A Season for Ashes, which has just been published. Soraya refers to the book as Amir’s “baby,” hinting at the couple’s inability to have a child of their own. Amir then receives an unexpected call from an old friend of his father’s, Rahim Khan (Shaun Toub), who is living in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Stranger Than Fiction, 1h53
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers
Actors Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson, Christian Stolte
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.7489053.7489053.7489053.7489053.748905
Harold Crick, an agent for the Internal Revenue Service, lives his life by his wristwatch. He is assigned to audit an intentionally tax-delinquent baker, Ana Pascal, to whom he is attracted. On the same day, he begins hearing the voice of a woman omnisciently narrating his life but is unable to communicate with it. Harold's watch stops working and he resets it using the time given by a bystander; the voice narrates, "little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Worried by this prediction, Harold consults a psychiatrist who attributes the voice to schizophrenia, though they consider that if there really is a narrator, he should visit an expert in literature. Crick visits Jules Hilbert, a literature professor, and relates his story. When Jules recognizes aspects of a literary work in Harold's story, he encourages Harold to identify the author, first by determining if the work is a comedy or tragedy.
Stay
Stay (2005)
, 1h39
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofalo, Elizabeth Reaser
Roles Editor
Rating66% 3.349043.349043.349043.349043.34904
The film opens with a car crash on Brooklyn Bridge, and introduces Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a survivor of the crash, sitting, unharmed, next to a burning car on the bridge.
Ellie Parker, 1h35
Directed by Scott Coffey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Naomi Watts, Rebecca Rigg, Scott Coffey, Jennifer Syme, Mark Pellegrino, Chevy Chase
Rating55% 2.797792.797792.797792.797792.79779
Ellie Parker is a semi-autobiographical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still go to auditions back and forth across L.A., changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the future feels "more like a threat than a promise". She lives with her vacuous musician boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino), who leaves her just about as dissatisfied as any other part of her life, and has a loose definition of the word "fidelity". Helping make sense of their surreal and humiliating Hollywood existence is her best friend Sam (Rebecca Rigg), another out-of-work actress trying her hand at design, who attends acting classes with Ellie to stay sharp. When Ellie gets into a fender bender with a guy who claims he's a cinematographer (Scott Coffey), her perspective on her work and the dating world starts to change. Chevy Chase also makes an appearance in this series of Hollywood vignettes, playing Ellie's agent.
Finding Neverland, 1h41
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Freddie Highmore, Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman
Roles Editor
Rating76% 3.8469053.8469053.8469053.8469053.846905
The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and his close friendship with her sons named George, Jack, Peter, and Michael, who inspire the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up.
Everything Put Together, 1h27
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullaly, Justin Louis, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Matt Malloy, Mark Boone Junior
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.043.043.043.043.04
A Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends are confronted with the tragedy of a big loss.