Career
He began his film career as a sound editor on such films as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke! (1999). During breaks he started editing films like Robocop 2 (1990). He was also nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010).
He was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993).
He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval.
He was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998).
More recently, Smith has edited six films with director Christopher Nolan.