Alan Heim

Alan Heim, ACE is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz.

Biography

Heim was born in the Bronx, New York.
He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople.
Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse. For his work on All That Jazz, Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. All That Jazz is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and Edward Ländler wrote a summary of the editing for that listing.

Year	Film	Director	Role
1966	The Fat Spy	Joseph Cates	Music editor

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1964	The Pawnbroker	Sidney Lumet	Sound editor	First collaboration with Sidney Lumet
1966	The Group	Sidney Lumet	Sound editor	Second collaboration with Sidney Lumet
1966	The Fat Spy	Joseph Cates	Sound effects editor
1967	The Producers	Mel Brooks	Sound editor	First collaboration with Mel Brooks
1968	Bye Bye Braverman	Sidney Lumet	Sound editor	Third collaboration with Sidney Lumet
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Paul Newman	Sound editor

Year	Film	Director	Role
2009	The Red Machine		Special thanks

Documentaries

Year	Film	Director	Role
1967	Festival	Murray Lerner	Associate editor

Year	Film	Director	Credit
2004	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing	Wendy Apple	Executive producer: TCEP

Year	Film	Director	Role
1965	The Eleanor Roosevelt Story	Richard Kaplan	Sound effects editor

TV documentaries

Year	Film	Director	Role
2005	Pretty Things	Liz Goldwyn	Supervising editor

TV movies

Year	Film	Director
1975	The Silence	Joseph Hardy
1978	Holocaust	Marvin J. Chomsky
1986	Nobody's Child	Lee Grant
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Martha Coolidge
2008	Skip Tracer	Stephen Frears
2009	Grey Gardens	Michael Sucsy

TV series

Year	Title	Notes
1978	Holocaust	2 episodes

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	The Nurses	Sound effects Sound effects editor	5 episodes
1963−64	East Side West Side	Sound editor Sound effects editor Sound mixer	8 episodes
1964	Mr. Broadway	Sound effects editor	2 episodes
1966	ABC Stage 67	Sound editor	1 episode

TV specials

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1972	Liza with a Z	Bob Fosse	Concert film

2012 - CameraImage Special Award - Lifetime Achievement award "Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity"
2010 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television" - Grey Gardens
2009 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie" -

Grey Gardens

2000 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television" - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
2000 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1981 - BAFTA Award winner - "Best Editing" - All That Jazz
1980 - Academy Award winner - "Best Film Editing" - All That Jazz
1980 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner "Best Edited Feature Film" - All That Jazz
1979 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee - "Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series" - Holocaust TV series
1978 - BAFTA Award nomination - "Best Film Editing" - Network
1978 - Primetime Emmy Winner - "Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series Holocaust TV series
1977 - Academy Award nomination "Best Film Editing" - Network
1977 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee "Best Edited Feature Film" - Network
1973 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special or Feature Length Program of a Series" ''Liza with a Z''