Jay Rabinowitz

Who is Jay Rabinowitz?

Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor

Rabinowitz studied at the New York University where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmuschs, Down By Law.

He has frequently worked with Jarmusch on films such as Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes, Year of the Horse, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers or The Limits of Control.

His other credits as film editor include Mark Webber’s directorial debut Explicit Ills; Todd Haynes’ I'm Not There; Frank Oz’ The Stepford Wives; Adam Bhala Lough’s Bomb the System and Weapons_; and Curtis Hanson’s Academy Award-winning 8 Mile.

Mr. Rabinowitz’ editing for Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream was cited as the year’s best by the Phoenix Film Critics Society and the Online Film Critics Society; subsequently, the latter group cited his editing for Mr. Aronofsky’s The Fountain as the year’s best.