Director

Kevin Tent

Editing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 43

TMDB ID: 32796

IMDb ID: nm0855188

Known for: Editing

Place of birth: Buffalo, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1988 - 2024

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.22

Wikidata: Q301846

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Director (2)Editor (37)Executive Producer (2)Additional Editor (1)Editorial Consultant (1)

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Biography

Kevin Tent is an American film editor and director. Tent has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE) and serves as President of the board. He is best known for his longstanding collaboration with Alexander Payne, having edited every feature film Payne has directed as of 2023. For his work on Payne's films, Tent has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Editing for his works in The Descendants and The Holdovers. Tent also won an ACE Eddie award for first film and received three other ACE Eddie Award nominations for Election, Sideways and About Schmidt. In addition to his career in editing, Tent also co-directed two films, Ultra Warrior (1990) and Blackbelt II (1993), and directed the 2017 film Crash Pad.

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