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Saar Klein

Israeli-American film editor and director

Summary

Israeli-American film editor and director

Field	Value
name	Saar Klein
birth_place	Jerusalem, Israel
nationality	Israeli-American
native_name	סער קליין
native_name_lang	he
birth_date
occupation	Film editor, film director

Saar Klein (; born 1967) is an Israeli-American film editor and director, who has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for The Thin Red Line and for Almost Famous, and who received an ACE Eddie Award for editing the latter one.

Early life

Klein was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to a family of Jewish descent. He immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of 9. In 1989, Klein received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Career

Klein was offered an internship with editor Joe Hutshing on the film JFK (directed by Oliver Stone-1991); his first editing credit (as an apprentice to editors David Brenner and Sally Menke) was for the 1993 film Heaven & Earth (directed by Oliver Stone). The Thin Red Line, which was nominated for an editing Academy Award, was only his second credit as an editor. Klein shared this credit with Leslie Jones and Billy Weber; the film was directed by Terrence Malick. Klein and Joe Hutshing co-edited Almost Famous (2000), which was directed by Cameron Crowe.

Klein edited The Bourne Identity (directed by Doug Liman - 2002), which was the first in the series of films based on the novels of Robert Ludlum. Christopher Rouse, who worked as an additional editor on The Bourne Identity, edited the subsequent films that were directed by Paul Greengrass. Klein subsequently co-edited The New World (2005) (again with director Terrence Malick); Malick's films have typically used several editors. Klein recently edited Jumper (2008) (with director Doug Liman).

Klein has written and directed two short films, Nouveau Riche No. 11 and Nouveau Riche No. 34, which have been shown at several film festivals.

His directorial debut film After the Fall premiered in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1996	For Which He Stands	Nelson McCormick
1998	Endurance	Leslie Woodhead
The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	First collaboration with Terrence Malick
2000	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
2002	The Bourne Identity	Doug Liman	First collaboration with Doug Liman
2005	The New World	Terrence Malick	Second collaboration with Terrence Malick
2008	Jumper	Doug Liman	Second collaboration with Doug Liman
2009	Fighting	Dito Montiel
2014	After the Fall	Himself
2018	Burden	Andrew Heckler
2019	The Wolf's Call	Antonin Baudry
2021	Locked Down	Doug Liman	Fifth collaboration with Doug Liman
2023	Asphalt City	Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
2024	The Instigators	Doug Liman	Seventh collaboration with Doug Liman
2025	Dead Man's Wire	Gus Van Sant

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1991	JFK	Oliver Stone	Post-production intern	First collaboration with Oliver Stone
1993	Heaven & Earth	Apprentice editor	Second collaboration with Oliver Stone
1994	The River Wild	Curtis Hanson
1995	The Cure	Peter Horton	Associate editor
1997	U Turn	Oliver Stone	Additional editor	Third collaboration with Oliver Stone
2006	The Elephant King	Seth Grossman	Supervising editor
2008	Cadillac Records	Darnell Martin	Additional editor
2010	Fair Game	Doug Liman	Third collaboration with Doug Liman
2011	Butter	Jim Field Smith
2017	American Made	Doug Liman	Fourth collaboration with Doug Liman

Year	Film	Director	Role
1994	Floundering	Peter McCarthy	News Anchor

Year	Film	Director	Role
2014	Red Knot	Scott Cohen	Story consultant

Year	Film	Director	Role
1994	Floundering	Peter McCarthy	Additional camera assistant

Year	Film
2014	After the Fall

Year	Film	Director	Credit
2004	Undertow	David Gordon Green	Executive producer

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
2009	The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations	Seth Grossman	The filmmakers would like to thank
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	Special thanks	Third collaboration with Terrence Malick
2020	The Quarry	Scott Teems
2021	Chaos Walking	Doug Liman	Sixth collaboration with Doug Liman
2023	Nyad

Year	Film
2014	After the Fall

;Documentaries

Year	Film	Director	Role
2023	American Symphony	Matthew Heineman	Special thanks

;Shorts

Year	Film	Director	Role
2012	Bored Games	Jonathan Fischer	Additional acknowledgments

;TV movies

Year	Film	Director
1995	P.C.H.	Nelson McCormick

Year	Film	Director	Role
1997	Sub Down	Gregg Champion	Additional editor

;TV series

Year	Title	Notes
2024	Masters of the Air	1 episode

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work
1999	Academy Awards	Best Film Editing	The Thin Red Line
American Cinema Editors	Best Edited Feature Film
2001	Academy Awards	Best Film Editing	Almost Famous
American Cinema Editors	Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical

References

Promotional materials for the film ''Jumper'' distributed by 20th Century Fox. The materials were posted to the web at http://upperrogue.bestredyp.com/movie.html?browse=info&show=45702; retrieved April 23, 2008.
[http://www.skouras.com/editors/klein/resume.html Biographical materials] {{webarchive. link. (2007-08-23 posted to the web by Skouras, Ltd.; Klein is one of the firm's clients. Retrieved April 23, 2008.)
Wood, Jennifer M.. (February 3, 2007). "The Power of Positive Friction: A Conversation with Editor Saar Klein". [[MovieMaker]].
"Panorama 2014: First Films". berlinale.

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