Hughes Winborne

Hughes Winborne
Born	(1952-01-03) January 3, 1952 (age 72) Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Regina De Freitas
Children	Wyatt Winborne

Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood film editor. He has edited 20 films, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also edited Sling Blade (1996) and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), though his true passion resides in Indie features.[1]

Hughes graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975 (with a bachelor's degree in history). After working for several years, he enrolled in a film program at New York University and discovered film editing.[2]

Winborne has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.[3]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Notes
1988	Plagues	Television film
1991	Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil
1992	The Bet	Short film
1994	The Last Good Time
1995	Drunks
	Low
	Comfortably Numb
1996	All She Ever Wanted	Television film
	Sling Blade
	Her Desperate Choice	Television film
1998	Curtain Call
1999	A Slipping-Down Life
	Buddy Boy
2000	Waterproof
2001	Nobody's Baby
	Walter and Henry	Television film
	Wild Iris
2002	Stark Raving Mad
2004	Employee of the Month
	Crash	Academy Award for Best Film Editing ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated — Gold Derby Award for Best Editing
2006	Even Money
	The Pursuit of Happyness
2007	The Great Debaters
2008	Seven Pounds
2010	Teen Patti
	180º
2011	The Help
2012	Item 47	Short film; with John Breinholt
	The Motel Life
2013	Charlie Countryman
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy	With Fred Raskin and Craig Wood Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical Nominated — HPA Award for Outstanding Editing - Feature Film Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Editing
2015	Pixels
2016	Fences
	All I See is You
2019	Noelle
2021	A Journal for Jordan

References

1. Armstrong, Matt (2004). "Crash Editor Hughes Winborne", Studio Daily, March 3, 2006; archived at Webcite from this original URL 2008-05-06.
2. Kaplowitz, Harry (2006). "Alumnus up for editing Oscar", The Daily Tar Heel Archived 2007-12-08 at the Wayback Machine February 3, 2006, archived at Webcite from this original URL Archived 2006-05-17 at the Wayback Machine 2008-05-06.
3. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.

Further reading

• Hullfish, Steve (December 31, 2016). "Art of the Cut with Oscar Winner Hughes Winborne on 'Fences'". Provideo Coalition.
• Frazer, Bryant (February 17, 2017). "Avid Editor Hughes Winborne on Denzel Washington's 'Fences'". Studio Daily.

External links

• Hughes Winborne at IMDb