---
name: "David Blewitt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-e-blewitt"
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imdb_id: "nm0088340"
tmdb_id: 8863
wikidata_id: "Q3038840"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "7 August 1928"
died: "8 July 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 53
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:47:19.151764+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."
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# David Blewitt

## Identity

David Blewitt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-e-blewitt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-e-blewitt
- **IMDb ID:** nm0088340
- **TMDB ID:** 8863
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3038840
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blewitt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3038840, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8863

Editor. Born 7 August 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 8 July 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 7 August 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 8 July 2010
- **Active:** 1984–1991
- **Also known as:** David E. Blewitt, Dave Blewitt
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 60 (2), 1990s 40 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Fantasy 2, Comedy 1, Drama 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $446m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blewitt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3038840, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8863

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Ghostbusters*](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md) (80)

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

## Biography

David E. Blewitt (also credited as Dave Blewitt or David Blewitt) was an American film editor. Born in Los Angeles, California, on 7 August 1928, he died in Sherman Oaks, California, on 8 July 2010.

His feature film credits include *Butterflies Are Free* (1972), *That's Entertainment!* (1974), *The Buddy Holly Story* (1978), *The Competition* (1980), *Smokey and the Bandit Part 3* (1983), *Ghostbusters* (1984), *Psycho III* (1986) and *Moonwalker* (1988). He also edited episodes of the television series *Hercules: The Legendary Journeys* and the special *Bob Hope: The First 90 Years* (1993). Blewitt received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for *The Competition* and won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the Bob Hope special. He was awarded the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2004.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Dying Young* (1991), Fi1m 40, Additional Editing — [page](https://film.one/film/dying-young.md)
- *Moonwalker* (1988), Fi1m 40, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/moonwalker.md)
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Dying Young* (1991), as Additional Editing — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/dying-young.md)
- *Moonwalker* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/moonwalker.md)
- *Psycho III* (1986), Editor
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)
- *D.C. Cab* (1983), Editor
- *Smokey and the Bandit Part 3* (1983), Editor
- *Under the Rainbow* (1981), Editor
- *The Competition* (1980), Editor
- *Steel* (1979), Editor
- *The Buddy Holly Story* (1978), Editor
- *Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front* (1977), Editor
- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Editor
- *Report to the Commissioner* (1975), Editor
- *That's Entertainment!* (1974), Editor
- *40 Carats* (1973), Editor
- *Wattstax* (1973), Editor
- *Butterflies Are Free* (1972), Editor
- *Hammersmith Is Out* (1972), Editor
- *The Love Machine* (1971), Editor
- *With Love, Sophia* (1967), Editor
- *The Making of the President: 1964* (1966), Editor
- *The Thin Blue Line* (1966), Editor
- *The Teen-Age Revolution* (1965), Editor
- *Hollywood: The Selznick Years* (1961), Editor
- *Night Tide* (1961), Production Assistant

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1981: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Competition*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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