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James E. Newcom
Born	James Edward Newcom (1905-08-29)August 29, 1905 Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
Died	October 6, 1990(1990-10-06) (aged 85) San Diego, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1933–1970

James E. Newcom (August 29, 1905 – October 6, 1990) was an American film editor who had over 40 films during his long career.

Academy Awards

Newcom received one Academy Award and three further nominations in the category of Best Film Editing:

12th Academy Awards – Won for Gone with the Wind, shared with Hal C. Kern.
17th Academy Awards – Nominated for Since You Went Away with Hal C. Kern. Lost to Wilson.
23rd Academy Awards – Nominated for Annie Get Your Gun, lost to King Solomon's Mines.
43rd Academy Awards – Nominated for Tora! Tora! Tora! with Inoue Chikaya and Pembroke J. Herring. Lost to Patton.

Selected filmography

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Impossible Years (1968)
Scent of Mystery (1960)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Prisoner of War (1954)
Rogue Cop (1954)
Scaramouche (1952)
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Go for Broke! (1951)
The Law and the Lady (1951)
Westward the Women (1951)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Key to the City (1950)
Right Cross (1950)
The Red Danube (1949)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Lured (1947)
Paris Underground (1945)
Guest in the House (1944)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Up in Arms (1944)
Cairo (1942)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
Topper Returns (1941)
Captain Caution (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
A Star Is Born (1937)
The Murder Man (1935)

References

"The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
"The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
"The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
"The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

External links

James E. Newcom at IMDb

v t e Academy Award for Best Film Editing
1934–1950	Conrad A. Nervig (1934) Ralph Dawson (1935) Ralph Dawson (1936) Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937) Ralph Dawson (1938) Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939) Anne Bauchens (1940) William Holmes (1941) Daniel Mandell (1942) George Amy (1943) Barbara McLean (1944) Robert J. Kern (1945) Daniel Mandell (1946) Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947) Paul Weatherwax (1948) Harry W. Gerstad (1949) Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
1951–1975	William Hornbeck (1951) Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952) William Lyon (1953) Gene Milford (1954) Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955) Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956) Peter Taylor (1957) Adrienne Fazan (1958) Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959) Daniel Mandell (1960) Thomas Stanford (1961) Anne V. Coates (1962) Harold F. Kress (1963) Cotton Warburton (1964) William Reynolds (1965) Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966) Hal Ashby (1967) Frank P. Keller (1968) Françoise Bonnot (1969) Hugh S. Fowler (1970) Gerald B. Greenberg (1971) David Bretherton (1972) William Reynolds (1973) Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974) Verna Fields (1975)
1976–2000	Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976) Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977) Peter Zinner (1978) Alan Heim (1979) Thelma Schoonmaker (1980) Michael Kahn (1981) John Bloom (1982) Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983) Jim Clark (1984) Thom Noble (1985) Claire Simpson (1986) Gabriella Cristiani (1987) Arthur Schmidt (1988) David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989) Neil Travis (1990) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) Joel Cox (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) Arthur Schmidt (1994) Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998) Zach Staenberg (1999) Stephen Mirrione (2000)
2001–present	Pietro Scalia (2001) Martin Walsh (2002) Jamie Selkirk (2003) Thelma Schoonmaker (2004) Hughes Winborne (2005) Thelma Schoonmaker (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) John Gilbert (2016) Lee Smith (2017) John Ottman (2018) Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019) Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020) Joe Walker (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023)
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