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MikeHorton

  • Editor
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Michael Horton's CV reads like a potted history of the Kiwi film renaissance. His editing work includes classic films Goodbye Pork Pie, Smash Palace, Utu and Once Were Warriors. In 2003 Horton's talents won international recognition, when he was Oscar-nominated for his editing on Tolkien epic The Two Towers.

Biography

Mike Horton has edited television programmes, 100s of commercials, award-winning short films and roughly 25 features. Along the way, he has won NZ Film Awards for big screen classics Once Were Warriors, The End of the Golden Weather and The Quiet Earth, spent time in Middle-earth, and memorably summarised the entire history of New Zealand cinema in 56 minutes. 

Screenography

Forgive Us All
2025 Editor Film
Border Politics
2018 Editor Film
Mahana
2016 Editor Film
That Was New Zealand
2014 Subject Short film
Utu Redux
2013 Editor Film

Awards

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Editor (shared with Jonno Woodford-Robinson): for Mahana

2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Editing - Film: for Second-Hand Wedding

“Michael Horton’s editing is a precision job.”

— David Stratton, reviewing Once Were Warriors, Variety, 20 May 1994