Career
He has worked with director David Fincher and editor Angus Wall several times, winning Academy Awards for The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Baxter was raised in Sydney, Australia and commenced his career as an editor there. He had been noted primarily for his work editing commercials, and co-founded a commercial editing firm named Final Cut.
In 2004, Baxter joined Angus Wall"s firm Rock Paper Scissors, which was also responsible for commercial work.
Baxter then worked with Wall as an "additional editor" on Fincher"s film Zodiac. When Wall was chosen to edit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, he proposed to Fincher that Baxter be the co-editor, and they have since worked together on Fincher"s subsequent films.
In 2014, Baxter"s next edited film was Gone Girl, also directed by David Fincher, and was his first film to not be co-edited by Angus Wall.