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Kevin Tent

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Kevin Tent

38 films

Kevin Tent is an American film editor and director. Tent has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE) and serves as President of the board. He is best known for his longstanding collaboration with Alexander Payne, having edited every feature film Payne has directed as of 2023. For his work on Payne's films, Tent has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Editing for his works in The Descendants and The Holdovers. Tent also won an ACE Eddie award for first film and received three other ACE Eddie Award nominations for Election, Sideways and About Schmidt. In addition to his career in editing, Tent also co-directed two films, Ultra Warrior (1990) and Blackbelt II (1993), and directed the 2017 film Crash Pad.

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Girl, Interrupted posterFirst watchGirl, Interrupted19997.6Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland,…View film

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Ranked by acclaim and reach
Blow poster7.4Blow2001The Holdovers poster7.6The Holdovers2023Nebraska poster7.4Nebraska2013The Descendants poster6.8The Descendants2011The Peanut Butter Falcon poster7.4The Peanut Butter Falcon2019Sideways poster7.1Sideways2004The Golden Compass poster6.1The Golden Compass2007Disconnect poster7.1Disconnect2013

Filmography

38 films
  1. 2024Lonely PlanetEditor
  2. 2023The HoldoversEditor
  3. 2019Honey BoyEditorial Consultant
  4. 2019Semper FiEditor
  5. 2019OtherhoodEditor
  6. 2019The Peanut Butter FalconEditor
  7. 2017DownsizingEditor
  8. 2015ParchedEditor
  9. 2015The AuditionEditor
  10. 2015Welcome to MeEditor
  11. 2013NebraskaEditor
  12. 2013DisconnectEditor
  13. 2011I Don't Know How She Does ItEditor
  14. 2011The DescendantsEditor
  15. 2010ShanghaiEditor
  16. 2009The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardEditor
  17. 2007The Golden CompassEditor
  18. 2007Mr. WoodcockEditor
  19. 2006RVEditor
  20. 2005Monster-in-LawEditor
  21. 2004SidewaysEditor
  22. 2004The ClearingEditor
  23. 2002About SchmidtEditor
  24. 2002Friday After NextAdditional Editor
  25. 2001BlowEditor
  26. 1999Girl, InterruptedEditor
  27. 1999ElectionEditor
  28. 1998Since You've Been GoneEditor
  29. 1996Citizen RuthEditor
  30. 1996One Good TurnEditor
  31. 1995HomageEditor
  32. 1992GuncrazyEditor
  33. 1991Rock 'n' Roll High School ForeverEditor
  34. 1991Guilty as ChargedEditor
  35. 1990FrankenhookerEditor
  36. 1990Basket Case 2Editor
  37. 1989MoontrapEditor
  38. 1988Not of This EarthEditor