Dody Dorn

Dody Dorn bornApril 1955 is an American film and sound editor best known for working with director Christopher Nolan on several films including Memento. Varietys Lisa Nesselson said of Memento that it is a ...beautifully structured puzzle... which ...deconstructs time and space with Einsteincaliber dexterity in the service of a delectably disturbing tale of revenge. She noted further that, Dody Dorns editing is topnotch as pic scripted, acted and lensed with precision smoothly toggles back and forth between sequences in BampW and in color. Dorn has also worked multiple times with director Ridley Scott as well as having edited SICK The Life amp Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist a documentary film which chronicles the life of a sadomasochistic man who struggles with cystic fibrosis.

Dody Dorn was born into a film industry family, her father having worked as a set designer and film producer. Dorn attended Hollywood High School and it was there that she decided to pursue a career as a math teacher. But a fateful job working behind the scenes at a movie sound stage led her towards working in the film industry. Dorn worked her way up the food chain eventually attaining the position of assistant film editor which she held until 1982. Finding it unusually difficult to move up to picture editing, Dorn made a lateral move to sound editing. Her work as a sound editor on James Camerons The Abyss won the Golden Reel Award and was nominated for a best sound Academy Award.

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