Nick Fenton

Biography

Nick Fenton is an award-winning and internationally renowned English film editor who is now based in Victoria, Australia.  In early 2021, Nick edited NITRAM, directed by Justin Kurzel, which then played in competition for the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Caleb Landry-Jones won the Best Actor Actor prize. Relocating to Australia in 2019, Nick collaborated with Justin Kurzel on his film THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam and Russel Crowe, for producers Daybreak Pictures and Porchlight Films. The film was nominated twelve times at the 2020 AACTA Awards, including Best Film and Best Editing. Nick's work on the film was also nominated for Best Editing in Feature Drama at the 2020 ASE Awards. In 2019, Nick also edited Francis Annan's film ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA, which starred Daniel Radcliffe for Arclight Films.  Nick has worked across many genres, including editing short films and working with artists such as Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller. Their longstanding relationship began with the filmed re-enactment of THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE, directed by Mike Figgis. Another collaboration, ENGLISH MAGIC, was part of Jeremy's exhibition representing Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013.  Nick's feature film credits include Richard Ayoade's SUBMARINE and THE DOUBLE, Anton Corbyn's LIFE, Benedict Andrews' UNA starring Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn, Ian McEwan's screen adaptation of his novel ON CHESIL BEACH directed by Dominic Cooke starring Saoirse Ronan, Matthew Heineman's A PRIVATE WAR and the 2018 Sundance hit AMERICAN ANIMALS with director Bart Layton awarded a BIFA for best editing and an Independent Spirit Nomination for editing also.  Nick has also collaborated with acclaimed director Clio Barnard for 20 years on her early shorts, THE ARBOUR, THE SELFISH GIANT, and DARK RIVER.  Television drama credits include two of David Hare's THE WORRICKER TRILOGY, TURKS AND CAICOS and SALTING THE BATTLEFIELD. Comedy credits include Julia Davis's NIGHTY NIGHT and the Charlie Brooker / Chris Morris cult series NATHAN BARLEY. In 2020, Nick completed production on the BBC drama series A SUITABLE BOY, produced by Lookout Point and directed by Mira Nair, now streaming on Netflix internationally.  Television documentary credits include the EMMY award-winning THE BOY WHOSE SKIN FELL OFF, for which Nick won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Factual Editing and more recently as part of the team that cut the Emmy Award-winning series EXODUS: OUR JOURNEY TO EUROPE, for which they won an RTS Award for Best Factual Editing and were also nominated for a BAFTA TV Award.  Feature documentary credits include BAFTA-nominated TAKING LIBERTIES and the kaleidoscopic musical journey ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES for Warp in the UK. Other musical collaborations have been with Sigur Rós on their films HEIMA and INNI, and Nick edited and co-directed (with Peter Strickland) the ambitious music documentary film BJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE for the hugely popular Icelandic singer.  Information above via their homepage.