Jabez Olssen

Jabez Olssen
Born (1975-08-05) 5 August 1975 (age 49)
Dunedin, New Zealand

Jabez Olssen (born 5 August 1975) is a New Zealand film and television editor who has worked extensively with director Peter Jackson.[1]

Starting in 1998, Olssen worked in the editorial department of two television programs in New Zealand. He was then hired to work with principal editor Michael J. Horton on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (directed by Peter Jackson – 2002). Olssen was ultimately credited as an "additional editor" on this film.[2] The two editors won the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for this film.[3]

Olssen said of his work "Anyway, if I never get to edit anything ever again, I can still say that I've edited scenes with Gollum in them and I've edited scenes with Darth Vader in them so, I'm good."[4]

He won an Emmy in the 2022 award ceremony for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program for his work on The Beatles: Get Back.[5]

  1. ^ *Jabez Olssen at IMDb
  2. ^ "South Seas". Onfilm. September 2009. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010.
  3. ^ As an additional editor, Olssen did not share Horton's nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
  4. ^ Croot, James (15 March 2017). "Star Wars' Kiwi editor Jabez Olssen goes Rogue to secure memorable Darth moment". Stuff. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  5. ^ Klein-Nixon, Kylie (4 September 2022). "Emmys 2022: Sir Peter Jackson's Get Back wins all five nominated categories". Stuff. Retrieved 14 September 2022.