---
name: "Blair McClendon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/blair-mcclendon"
fi1m_id: "blair-mcclendon"
tmdb_id: 1966020
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:27:59.865075+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Blair McClendon

## Identity

Blair McClendon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/blair-mcclendon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** blair-mcclendon
- **TMDB ID:** 1966020
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1966020

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1966020

## Coming up

- *Clarissa* (2026-12-11), Editor

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Assistant*](https://film.one/film/the-assistant.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Blair McClendon is a film editor. He edited Kitty Green's *The Assistant* (2019) and Charlotte Wells's *Aftersun* (2022). He also edited *The Last Showgirl* (2024) and the documentary *Union* (2024).

McClendon is based in New York. His editing work has screened at festivals including Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca and TIFF. He is also a writer whose criticism and essays have appeared in *n+1*, *The New Republic* and *The New York Times Magazine*.

*Sources: filmmakermagazine.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nothingbogus.substack.com, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Assistant* (2020), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-assistant.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Clarissa* (2026), Editor
- *Magazine* (2026), Editor
- *To Use a Mountain* (2025), Consulting Editor
- *The Last Showgirl* (2024), Editor
- *Union* (2024), Editor
- *Homegrown* (2024), Additional Editor
- *Aftersun* (2022), Editor
- *After Sherman* (2022), Editor
- *They Won't Call It Murder* (2021), Editor
- *The Assistant* (2020), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-assistant.md)
- *Raf* (2019), Editor
- *Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop* (2019), Editor
- *A Year* (2018), Editor
- *Mr. SOUL!* (2018), Editor
- *I Was in Your Blood* (2018), Editor
- *Wrestle* (2018), Associate Editor
- *Blue Christmas* (2017), Sound Mixer, Editor
- *That Is Circling All Around The Sun* (2017), Editor
- *Whose Streets?* (2017), Consulting Editor
- *Give Up the Ghost* (2017), Editor
- *Laps* (2017), Editor
- *Walk for Me* (2016), Editor
- *Penny & Dee* (2016), Editor
- *Ookie Cookie* (2016), Boom Operator
- *POV* (1988), series, Editor

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