Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French

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and

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who was nominated for an

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for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''

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'' (2014). She and her husband

Dirk Wilutzky Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary '' Citizenfour'' at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is m ...

additionally served as producers of ''Citizenfour'' with its director Laura Poitras, and the three received the 2014

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. Bonnefoy was born in

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, and is the daughter of the French poet

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and Lucy Vines, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990 to 1991 she studied philosophy at the

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, but she abandoned her studies to move to

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. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the " Avid assistant" for the German film '' Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' (directed by Wolfgang Becker). ''Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' was one of the first films produced by the film company X Filme GmbH, which was created by Becker and

Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films '' Run Lola Run'' (1998), '' Heaven'' (2002), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ...

(among others). Tykwer, who was the screenwriter for ''Das Leben ...'', recruited Bonnefoy as the editor of '' Run Lola Run'' (1998), which he was directing. This film enjoyed international critical and box office success. It garnered Bonnefoy a '' Deutscher Filmpreis'' (the

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of Germany) for editing, as well as the ACE Eddie nomination. Since ''Run Lola Run'', Bonnefoy has edited several more films with Tykwer and with the director Wim Wenders. Her editing of Tykwer's film ''

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'' (2010) won her a second ''Deutscher Filmpreis''. In recent years she has also directed and edited films for German television. Bonnefoy is credited as both the editor and as a producer for the 2014 documentary ''

'' that was directed by Laura Poitras. She earned

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for outstanding achievement in editing and the

for best edited documentary feature. She shared ''Citizenfours Best Documentary Oscar with her fellow producers Laura Poitras and

, and was nominated for a third ''Deutscher Filmpreis'' for Best Editing for that film. In June 2015, Bonnefoy was announced as one of the 322 invitees to become a member of the

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that year. She was invited by both the Documentary branch, for her work on ''Citizenfour'' and '' Invisibles''; and by the Film Editing branch, for her work on ''Citizenfour'' and ''Run Lola Run''. The seven invitees who received invitations from multiple branches must select one branch on accepting membership. New members will be welcomed into the Academy at a closed reception in September 2015.

Filmography

This filmography of editing credits is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database; the director of each film is indicated in parenthesis. * 1998: '' Run Lola Run'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2000: ''

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'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2002: '' Heaven'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2002: ''Twelve Miles to Trona'' (episode of the film '' Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet'') (Wim Wenders) * 2003: '' The Soul of a Man'' (Wim Wenders) * 2004: ''True'' (short - Tom Tykwer) * 2006: '' The Favor'' ( Eva S. Aridjis) * 2007: '' Invisibles'' (segment "Invisible Crimes", directed by Wim Wenders) * 2007: ''

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'' (

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) * 2009: '' The International'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2010: ''

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'' (

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) * 2010: ''

'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2014: ''

'' ( Laura Poitras); Bonnefoy was also a producer for this documentary film.

Filmography

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