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Tariq Anwar (born 21 September 1945) is an Indian-born British-American
film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film ed ...
whose credits include '' Center Stage'', '' The Good Shepherd'', '' Sylvia'', '' Oppenheimer'', and '' American Beauty'', for which he was nominated for an
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and won two BAFTA Awards. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 for editing ''
The King's Speech ''The King's Speech'' is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language ...
''. He is now based in the
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and the
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. With Shirley Hills, he is the father of actress
Gabrielle Anwar Gabrielle Anwar is a British and American actress. She is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of ''Press Gang'', as Margaret Tudor in the first season of ''The Tudors'', as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of '' ...
.


Personal life

Anwar was born in
Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...
,
British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
and was raised in
Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...
and
Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
. His mother, Edith Reich, was an
Austrian Jew The history of the Jews in Austria probably begins with the exodus of Jews from Judea under Roman occupation. Over the course of many centuries, the political status of the community rose and fell many times: during certain periods, the Jewis ...
, and his father was
Indian Muslim Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, approximately 172.2 million people identifying as adherents of Islam in 2011 Census. India is also the country with the second or third largest number of Muslim ...
film actor and director Rafiq Anwar. He moved with his mother to London after his parents divorced. He is the father of
Gabrielle Anwar Gabrielle Anwar is a British and American actress. She is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of ''Press Gang'', as Margaret Tudor in the first season of ''The Tudors'', as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of '' ...
and Dominic Anwar.


Filmography

;Movies * ''
The Madness of King George ''The Madness of King George'' is a 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991 play '' The Madness of George III''. It tells the true story of George III of G ...
'' (1994) * '' The Grotesque'' (1995) * ''
The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as ...
'' (1996) * ''
The Wings of the Dove ''The Wings of the Dove'' is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honourable ...
'' (1997) * ''
The Object of My Affection ''The Object of My Affection'' is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by Stephen McCauley and the screenplay was ...
'' (1998) * ''
Cousin Bette ''La Cousine Bette'' (, ''Cousin Bette (given name), Bette'') is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended fami ...
'' (1998) * ''
Tea with Mussolini ''Tea with Mussolini'' ( it, Un tè con Mussolini) is a 1999 Anglo-Italian semi-autobiographical comedy-drama war film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, scripted by John Mortimer, telling the story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a circle ...
'' (1999) * '' American Beauty'' (1999) * '' Center Stage'' (2000) * ''
Greenfingers ''Greenfingers'' is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England, a story publis ...
'' (2000) * ''
Focus Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film *''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore * ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
'' (2001) * ''
Alien Love Triangle ''Alien Love Triangle'' is a 2008 comedy-science fiction short film directed by Danny Boyle. It was filmed in 1999. The film was originally intended to be one of a trilogy of 30-minute short films shown together. However, the two other films, ' ...
'' (2002) * '' Leo'' (2002) * '' Sylvia'' (2003) * ''
Stage Beauty ''Stage Beauty'' is a 2004 romantic period drama directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play ''Compleat Female Stage Beauty'', which was inspired by references to 17th-century actor Edward Kynaston made in t ...
'' (2004) * '' American Crude'' (2005) * ''
Alpha Male In biology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking individual is so ...
'' (2006) * '' The Good Shepherd'' (2006) * '' Revolutionary Road'' (2008) * '' The Other Man'' (2008) * ''* Hussein Who Said No'' (2008-2014) * '' Law Abiding Citizen'' (2009) * ''
The King's Speech ''The King's Speech'' is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language ...
'' (2010) * '' Libertador'' (2013) * '' The Lady in the Van '' (2015) * '' Our Kind of Traitor'' (2016) * '' Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House'' (2017) * ''Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back'' (2018) * ''
Farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peopl ...
'' (2018) * '' Human Capital'' (2019) * ''
One Night in Miami ''One Night in Miami'' is the debut play written by Kemp Powers, first performed in 2013. It is a fictional account of the real night of February 25, 1964. It pinpoints a pivotal moment in the lives of four, still nascent, Black American icons w ...
'' (2020) * '' With/In: Volume 1'' (2021) * '' With/In: Volume 2'' (2021) * ''Three Way Week'' (TBA) ;Selected television * ''
Caught on a Train ''Caught on a Train'' is a British television play written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Peter Duffell, based on an overnight train journey across Europe, and following the route of a journey that Poliakoff had himself made from London to ...
'' (1980) * '' Oppenheimer'' (1980) * ''Tender Is the Night'' (1985) * '' Fortunes of War'' (1987) * ''
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'' (1994) ;Documentary * ''
Stephen Fry in America ''Stephen Fry in America'' is a six-part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across the United States. In the six-part series he travels, mostly in a London cab, through all 50 of the U.S. state and Washington, D.C.. The episode ...
'' (episodes 1 and 5) (2008)


Awards and nominations


Awards

*1980 - BAFTA Television Award for Best Film Editor: '' Oppenheimer'' *1999 - BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing: '' American Beauty''


Nominations

*1999 -
Academy Award for Film Editing An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...
: '' American Beauty'' *2011 -
Academy Award for Film Editing An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...
: ''
The King's Speech ''The King's Speech'' is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language ...
'' *2021 - Satellite Award for Best Film Editing: '' One Night in Miami...''


See also

*
List of film director and editor collaborations This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of directors and editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the editing of a film, which is the ultimate ...


References


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anwar, Tariq 1945 births Best Editing BAFTA Award winners British film editors British television editors Indian people of Austrian-Jewish descent Indian emigrants to England Living people People from Lahore People from New Delhi English people of Austrian-Jewish descent British people of Indian descent British people of Austrian-Jewish descent