Arthur Schmidt

Who is Arthur Schmidt?

Arthur Schmidt is an American film editor with about 27 film credits between 1977 and 2005. Schmidt has had an extended collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis that extended from Back to the Future to Cast Away.

Schmidt is the son of the distinguished film editor Arthur P. Schmidt; it is said that the son's education in editing began when he watched his father editing the film Sunset Boulevard. Schmidt graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor's degree in English.

Schmidt received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump. In addition to these Oscars, Schmidt has won several "Eddies" from the American Cinema Editors for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Forrest Gump, and for a television special The Jericho Mile. He has been nominated for major editing awards for Coal Miner's Daughter, Back to the Future, Last of the Mohicans, and Cast Away. He was the executive producer for The Labyrinth.