Tariq Anwar (film editor)

Tariq Anwar (born 21 September 1945) is an Indian-born British-American film editor whose credits include Center Stage, The Good Shepherd, Sylvia, Oppenheimer, and American Beauty, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won two BAFTA Awards. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 for editing The King's Speech. He is now based in the United States and the United Kingdom. With Shirley Hills, he is the father of actress Gabrielle Anwar.

Early life

Anwar was born in Delhi, British India and was raised in Lahore and Bombay.^[1] His mother, Edith Reich, was an Austrian Jew, and his father was Indian Muslim film actor and director Rafiq Anwar.^[1] He moved with his mother to London after his parents divorced.^[1]

Personal life

He is the father of Gabrielle Anwar and Dominic Anwar.

Filmography

Movies

• The Madness of King George (1994)
• The Grotesque (1995)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Object of My Affection (1998)
• Cousin Bette (1998)
• Tea with Mussolini (1999)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Center Stage (2000)
• Greenfingers (2000)
• Focus (2001)
• Alien Love Triangle (2002)
• Leo (2002)
• Sylvia (2003)
• Stage Beauty (2004)
• American Crude (2005)
• Alpha Male (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 (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 (2018)
• Human Capital (2019)
• One Night in Miami (2020)
• With/In: Volume 1 (2021)
• With/In: Volume 2 (2021)
• Three Way Week (TBA)
• William Tell (TBA)

Selected television

• Caught on a Train (1980)
• Oppenheimer (1980)
• Tender Is the Night (1985)
• Fortunes of War (1987)
• Fatherland (1994)

Documentary

• Stephen Fry in America (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: American Beauty
• 2011 - Academy Award for Film Editing: The King's Speech
• 2021 - Satellite Award for Best Film Editing: One Night in Miami...

See also

• List of film director and editor collaborations

References

External links

• Tariq Anwar at IMDb 

This page was last edited on 25 February 2024, at 15:04