Dylan Tichenor
Quick Facts
Biography
Dylan Tichenor (born 1968) is an American film editor and member of American Cinema Editors. He is best known for his works in Boogie Nights (1997), Brokeback Mountain (2005), There Will Be Blood (2007), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Phantom Thread (2017).
He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Hollywood Film Award and a Satellite Award, and has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and four Eddie Awards.
Life and career
As a child, he grew up watching movies with his father. He graduated from Philadelphia's Greene Street Friends School in 1982 and Central High School in 1986.
Tichenor worked as editor Geraldine Peroni's assistant on several films in the 1990s, including Robert Altman's film The Player (1992). His first credit as an editor was for Altman's Jazz '34 (1996). Following Peroni's death in 2004, Tichenor stepped in to finish his mentor's editing of Brokeback Mountain (directed by Ang Lee).
Tichenor has had a notable collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson. Tichenor's first major editing credit was for Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997), for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award. He was nominated for an Oscar for his work on Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
Tichenor has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
- There Will Be Blood (2007), nominated
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012), nominated
Eddie Awards
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), nominated
- Brokeback Mountain (2005), nominated
- There Will Be Blood (2007), nominated
BAFTA Awards
- Brokeback Mountain (2005), nominated
Emmy Awards
- Jazz '34 (1996), nominated
MTV Video Music Awards
- Save Me by Aimee Mann (2000) (music video), won
Online Film Critics Society Awards
- There Will Be Blood (2007), nominated
Satellite Awards
- Boogie Nights (1997), nominated
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), nominated
- Brokeback Mountain (2005), won