Developing the Editor's Eye

Michael R. Miller has had a dream career in film editing. After graduating from Cornell University, he landed the plum job of assistant to editor Susan E. Morse, ACE. He worked in the same capacity for Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE on Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. Subsequently Mr. Miller became a sound editor on Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple and went on to collaborate with "the boys" as editor of Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. His many other cutting credits include Terry Zwygoff's Ghost World, Keenan Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka, Herbert Ross' Boys on the Side, Thomas Carter's Swing Kids, Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy (starring Dinello, Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris), Michael Bay's Armageddon, Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata, Jesse Torero's Soul Plane, and Anthony Hopkins' Slipstream. He also edited Josh Radnor's happythankyoumoreplease, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Mr. Radnor's well-reviewed Liberal Arts, which premiered at Sundance in 2012, and Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear, which screened there in 2014. In all, he's edited 8 official Sundance Selections. Mr. Miller also edited Angus MacLaughlin's Abundant Acreage Available, which won Best Original Screenplay at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. He is currently Professor of filmmaking at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he also serves as the Editing Department chair. In 2024, he received the school's Excellence in Teaching Award.