Biography
John Gilbert is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand. Gilbert has edited 28 feature films as well as television shows and short films. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, among several honours, for Mel Gibson's war drama Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Gilbert had earlier received various accolades for his work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), including the Satellite Award for Best Editing and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an ACE Eddie Award.
John Gilbert's first position in film was with the government filmmaking body, The National Film Unit, in his native New Zealand. Gilbert was taking a break from history and anthropology studies at the time but never returned to university, moving on to Television New Zealand, where he worked as an assistant editor and editor.