Billy Weber
Billy Weber is an American film editor with several film credits dating from Days of Heaven.
One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, Badlands. Badlands was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film Days of Heaven. When Malick returned to film directing twenty years later with The Thin Red Line, he once again hired Weber, along with Leslie Jones and Saar Klein, to edit it. While Weber did not edit Malick's next film, The New World, he was an associate producer on the project. Most recently, Weber was one of five collaborating editors on Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life.
Beyond this notable collaboration with Malick, Weber has edited Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Midnight Run.
Weber was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Top Gun; he was nominated again for an Academy Award, an ACE Eddie Award and the Satellite Award, for The Thin Red Line. Days of Heaven was listed as the 45th best-edited film of all time in a survey of the membership of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
Weber has directed one film, Josh and S.A.M., that was produced by Martin Brest.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
| 1973 | Badlands | Terrence Malick | Associate editor | |
| 1973 | Messiah of Evil | Associate editor | First collaboration with Willard Huyck | |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | Assistant editor | |
| 1984 | Best Defense | Willard Huyck | Additional editor | Second collaboration with Willard Huyck |
| 2000 | Shanghai Noon | Tom Dey | Additional editor | First collaboration with Tom Dey |
| 2012 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Editor | - | |
| 2024 | Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie | Liza Johnson | Film editor: Edited by |
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
| 1973 | Messiah of Evil | Supermarket Zombie | Uncredited |
| Year | Film | Director | Credit | - |
| 2005 | The New World | Terrence Malick | Associate producer | Fourth collaboration with Terrence Malick |
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | Second unit director | Second collaboration with Tim Burton |
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
| 1947 | Song of the Wasteland | Thomas Carr | Writer: "Somebody's Rose" |
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
| 1995 | Virtuosity | Brett Leonard | Special thanks |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Eric Blakeney | Special thanks |
| 2003 | Shanghai Knights | David Dobkin | Special thanks |
| 2004 | The Clearing | Pieter Jan Brugge | Special thanks |
| 2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Stephen Hillenburg | Special thanks |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Garth Jennings | Thanks |