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Angus Wall

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Production

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 15, 1967 (59 years old)

Place of Birth
Virginia, USA

Angus Wall

Biography

Angus Alexander Wall (born March 15, 1967) is a film editor and film title designer. He and fellow film editor Kirk Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the David Fincher film The Social Network (2010) and again the next year for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He and Baxter were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, also directed by David Fincher. Wall's title design work on the HBO television series Carnivàle and Game of Thrones both received Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2011, respectively, and his work on the series Rome's titles was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 2005.

Wall graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia in 1984. He then earned a BA from Bowdoin College in 1988. In 1992, he and Linda Carlson started the firm Rock Paper Scissors, which has become "a respected West Hollywood creative editorial house known for its commercial work for such clients as BMW, HP, and Nike."

Wall's relationship with the director David Fincher extends back to 1988, when Wall entered the entertainment industry. Wall had edited some commercials directed by David Fincher, and he edited the titles for Fincher's film Se7en. He became an "editorial consultant" on Fight Club (1999), which was edited by James Haygood, and he then co-edited Panic Room (2002) with Haygood. While Wall became the sole editor credited on Zodiac (2007), Kirk Baxter worked with him as an "additional editor." Wall proposed to Fincher that Baxter be the co-editor for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Wall and his firm are noted for being early adopters of all-digital filmmaking using digital cameras. The film Zodiac (2007), which was directed by Fincher and edited by Wall, is noted as "the first major motion picture created without using film or tape," although some parts of the film were shot with conventional cameras. One important aspect of using digital cameras is that the director can view a scene immediately after it is recorded; as Fincher commented in an interview, "Dailies almost always end up being disappointing, like the veil is pierced and you look at it for the first time and think, 'Oh my god, this is what I really have to work with.' But when you can see what you have as it's gathered, it can be a much less neurotic process." Digital filmmaking also creates new possibilities for film editing compared to the "cutting" of reels of physical film; among these possibilities are subtle changes in the timing of an actor's performance and the combining of two different takes of a given scene within a single frame. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the additional novel element that the facial performances in many of the film's scenes were recorded independently of the body performances and were combined to create the final film. Brad Pitt's face performances for Button were used in all the scenes, but for many of the scenes, a second actor's performance was used for the rest of Button's body.

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Known For

Production

2026One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5...Producer
2025Elway...Producer
2025Not a Box...Executive Producer
2025Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow...Executive Producer
2025We Are Storror...Producer
2025UnBroken...Executive Producer
2024LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change...Producer
2024Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer...Executive Producer
2024Untold: Sign Stealer...Executive Producer
2024Untold: The Murder of Air McNair...Executive Producer
2024The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth...Executive Producer
2024The Greatest Night in Pop...Executive Producer
2023Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre...Producer
2023Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones...Executive Producer
2022Harry & Meghan...Executive Producer
2022Is That Black Enough for You?!?...Producer
2022Is That Black Enough for You?!?...Executive Producer
2022Emily the Criminal...Executive Producer
2022Halftime...Producer
2022jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy...Executive Producer
2021Amend: The Fight for America...Executive Producer
2020Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb...Producer
2020Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez...Executive Producer
2019Mike Wallace Is Here...Executive Producer
2019The Black Godfather...Executive Producer
2018Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski...Executive Producer
2018Strokes of Genius...Executive Producer
2017Voyeur...Executive Producer
2017Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang...Executive Producer
2017Icarus...Executive Producer
2017Five Came Back...Executive Producer
2017Five Came Back...Executive Producer
201613th...Executive Producer
2016Amanda Knox...Executive Producer
2015Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom...Executive Producer
2014The Truth...Executive Producer

Directing

2025Being Eddie...Director
2023Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre...Director
2015First Pitch...Director
2015EMIC...Director
2004Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)...Director

Editing

2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...Editor
2010The Social Network...Editor
2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...Editor
2007Zodiac...Editor
2005Thumbsucker...Editor
2002Hostage...Editor
2002Panic Room...Editor
2000Sunset Strip...Editor
1999The Architecture of Reassurance...Editor
1991Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit...Editor

Acting

2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Post-Productionas
2009The Curious Birth of Benjamin Buttonas Self