Jon Gregory (film editor)

Jon Henry Albert Gregory (21 May 1944 – 9 September 2021) was a British film editor. He was born in Lahore, British Raj to British parents, and raised in England from the age of nine, where he was educated at Reigate Grammar School.[1][2]

He worked at the BBC as a crew member, and began his editing career with Ealing Studios.[1] His credits included Shoestring (1981), A Year in Provence (1994), Deeply (2000), The Proposition, (2005), In Bruges (2008), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Film Editing nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.[3][4]

Gregory was previously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He was a member of the American Cinema Editors.[5]

Gregory married Beryl Ridley from 1966 until their divorce. They had two daughters. In about 1980, he began a relationship with Sue Barker, his former assistant and dubbing editor, and they married in 2020.[1] He died on 9 September 2021, at the age of 77, after a short illness.[1][6] The 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin is dedicated to his memory.

  1. ^ a b c d Leigh, Mike (27 September 2021). "Jon Gregory obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Jon Gregory, ACE on Building an Editing Career". YouTube. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018. I was born in India... when [I] came over to England...
  3. ^ Sims, David (23 January 2018). "The 2018 Oscar Nominations Are In". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ^ Epstein, Adam (23 January 2018). ""Dunkirk" and "The Shape of Water" lead the impressive 2018 Oscar field". Quartz. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  5. ^ "ACE Member Directory". American Cinema Editors. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  6. ^ Barnes, Mike (27 September 2021). "Jon Gregory, British Film Editor on 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' 'Secrets & Lies' and 'Three Billboards,' Dies at 77". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 27 September 2021.