Education
Both brothers attended Cornell after attending Gateway Regional High School in New Jersey.
Both brothers attended Cornell after attending Gateway Regional High School in New Jersey.
Squyres has had an extended collaboration with the Taiwanese director Ang Lee, having edited all but one of Lee"s feature films. His latest collaboration with Jonathan Demme on the film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen. Squyres was born in Wenonah, New Jersey.
He is the brother of Steve Squyres, professor of astronomy at Cornell University.
Squyres has edited all of Ang Lee"s films except for Brokeback Mountain, including The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Manitoba Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Hire: Chosen (2001), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009) and Life of Pi (2012). Squyres served as editor of Angelina Jolie"s adaptation of Unbroken, released on December 25, 2014.
His work on Gosford Park (directed by Robert Altman – 2001) was also nominated for an Eddie. Squyres has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.
Squyres has been a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey.
Squyres" work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Editing, the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award, among other awards. In 2012, he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Life of Pi.
