Background
Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California.
Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California.
He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor"s degree in 1991. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening of Go.
He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman"s first feature films Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996), and Go (1999), which was an homage to Akira Kurosawa"s 1950 film Rashomon. Mirrione has had a notable collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh.
About one year later he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic (2000), which earned Mirrione an Oscar.
Todd McCarthy characterized the effects of the camerawork and editing, "Soderbergh has given the film tremendous texture as well as a vibrant immediacy through constant handheld operating, mostly using available light, and manipulating the look both in shooting and in the laboratory Stephen Mirrione"s editing, which gives Traffic a beautifully modulated overall shape, is characterized on a moment-to-moment basis by jump cuts and jagged rhythms.
Overall result is far too stylized to call the approach verite, but pic looks far more caught-on-the-run, and therefore far less staged, than all but a few other American films." Mirrione subsequently edited all three of the Ocean"s films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (Ocean"s Eleven (2001), Ocean"s Twelve (2004), and Ocean"s Thirteen (2007)), as well as Soderbergh"s 2009 film The Informant! and the 2011 film Contagion. He has been nominated four times for British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for editing Traffic, 21 grams (also directed by Inarritu - 2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney-2006), and for Babel.
Mirrione has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.
2000 – Traffic (won) Academy Award Film Editing 2006 – Babel (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing see: Academy Award for Film Editing 2000 – Traffic (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2000 – Traffic (nominated) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic 2002 – Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (won) San Diego Film Critics Society SDFCS Award Best Editing 2003 – 21 Grams (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic 2006 – Babel (won) Cannes Film Festival Vulcain Prize - Awarded to a technical artist by the C.S.T. 2006 – Babel (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2006 – Babel (won) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic 2010 – Biutiful (nominated) 25th Goya Awards Best Editing 2013 – August: Osage County (nominated) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy or Musical 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy or Musical 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award Best Editing 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) American Cinema Editors American Council on Exercise Eddie Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic.
