Dany Cooper, ASE

Editor

Dany Cooper is one of Australia’s best known and most respected editors with an enviable body of work across film and television.

In 2022 Dany edited The Drover’s Wife (2022), an adaptation of the critically acclaimed stage play for director Leah Purcell and Bunya Productions, which debuted at the 2022 SXSW Festival; Blaze (Causeway Films, 2022), the debut feature film of acclaimed visual artist, Del Kathryn Barton, which had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and Australian Premiere at the Sydney Film Festival; and the debut feature film for director Bejamin Millepied, Carmen (Chapter 2/ Goalpost Pictures, 2021), a modern-day re-imagining of the famous opera. This premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022, and earned a nomination for the FIPRESCI Prize.

Dany’s other recent credits include: I am Woman (dir. Unjoo Moon, 2019), the Helen Reddy biopic for Goalpost Pictures which bowed at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and debuted on Stan in 2020 - Dany received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Editing in a Feature Film for her work on the film; Blue Tongue Films Judy + Punch (dir. Mirrah Foulkes, 2019), which earned Dany her tenth ASE Award nomination as well as an AACTA nomination, it had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; Causeway Film’s Cargo (dir. Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke/ Causeway Films, 2018); Simon Baker’s Breath (See Pictures, 2018), for which she earned an AACTA nomination for Best Editing in a Feature Film and won the ASE Award in the same category, and Jim Loach’s Measure of a Man (Taylor Lane Productions, 2018).

Dany edited Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man (2015) with Goalpost Pictures, Deadline Gallipoli (dir. Michael Rymer/ Matchbox Pictures, 2015), series one and two of Redfern Now (Dir. Catriona McKenzie, Wayne Blair/ Blackfella Films, 2013) and the series Puberty Blues (dir. Glendyn Ivin/ Southern Star, 2013). Dany edited the hit film The Sapphires for Goalpost Pictures (dir. Wayne Blair, 2012), which screened at Cannes 2012 and opened MIFF as well as screening at Telluride and Toronto in which she received an ASE Award Nomination and won the AACTA Award for Best Editing.

She was nominated for a 2004 Emmy Award for her work on the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica (dir. Michael Rymer/ Sci-Fi Channel) for Universal Pictures. Other US work includes Queen of the Damned (dir. Michael Rymer/ Warner Bros., 2002) and In Too Deep (dir. Michael Rymer, 1999) for Miramax. 

Dany was nominated for AFI Awards for The Well (dir. Samantha Lang/ Southern Star, 1997), Candy (dir. Neil Armfield/ Sherman Pictures, 2005), Beneath Hill 60 (dir. Jeremy Sims/ Paramount, 2009), which won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and the ASE Award and Angel Baby (dir. Michael Rymer/ Meridian Films, 1994), for which Dany won the AFI Award. She was also nominated for an AACTA Award for Oranges and Sunshine (dir. Jim Loach/ SeeSaw Films, 2010) starring Emily Watson for which she also received an IF nomination and won the ASE Award. Her other Australian credits include the Stan original series The Commons (dir. Jeffrey Walker, 2019), December Boys (dir. Rod Hardy/ Becker Films, 2006), Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger (dir. Cathy Randall/ EB Productions, 2008) and Australia (additional editor – dir. Baz Luhrmann/ 20th Century Fox, 2008).

Most recently, Dany cut the feature film Went Up the Hill (dir. Samuel Van Grinsven) for Causeway Films. She also edited the critically acclaimed series adaptation of the novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (dir. Glendyn Ivin / Made Up Stories, 2023). Dany is currently editing The Last Anniversary, the adaptation of the best-selling Liane Moriarty novel of the same name, which is to be produced by Made Up Stories.

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