---
name: "David Moritz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-moritz"
fi1m_id: "david-moritz"
imdb_id: "nm0605758"
tmdb_id: 5668
wikidata_id: "Q24843202"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-04T21:43:49.709559+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."
---

# David Moritz

## Identity

David Moritz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-moritz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-moritz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0605758
- **TMDB ID:** 5668
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24843202
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24843202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5668

Editor. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1991–2009
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 acting, 4 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Owen Wilson](https://film.one/person/owen-wilson.md), [Wes Anderson](https://film.one/person/wes-anderson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 77 (4), 2000s 63 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Romance 3, Drama 2, Crime 1, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $623m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24843202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5668

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Bottle Rocket*](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md) (78)
- **Hulu:** [*It's Complicated*](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md) (63)

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

## Biography

David Moritz is an American film editor. He began his career in the 1980s as an apprentice sound editor on films including *Silverado* (1985) and *St. Elmo's Fire* (1985), later working as an assistant editor on titles such as *Dick Tracy* (1990). His first credited editing work came on *Sleep with Me* (1994).

Moritz edited *Bottle Rocket* (1996) and *Jerry Maguire* (1996, as co-editor). He has edited numerous features including *Rushmore* (1998), *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou* (2004), *Elizabethtown* (2005), *Freedom Writers* (2007), *P.S. I Love You* (2007), *Hannah Montana: The Movie* (2009), *Beautiful Creatures* (2013) and *The Space Between Us* (2017). He has also worked on additional editing for films such as *Trainwreck* (2015). Moritz was born in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (1)

- *Rushmore* (1998), Fi1m 83, as Dynamite Salesman — [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)

### Crew (4) — the average rests on these

- *It's Complicated* (2009), Fi1m 63, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)
- *Bottle Rocket* (1996), Fi1m 78, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md)
- *Jerry Maguire* (1996), Fi1m 81, Co-Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/jerry-maguire.md)
- *Father of the Bride* (1991), Fi1m 65, First Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride-1991.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *Praise This* (2023), Editor
- *Down Low* (2023), Editor
- *The Noel Diary* (2022), Editor
- *Small Engine Repair* (2021), Editor
- *All My Life* (2020), Editor
- *Little* (2019), Editor
- *The Space Between Us* (2017), Editor
- *Skiptrace* (2016), Editor
- *Trainwreck* (2015), Additional Editor
- *Soaked in Bleach* (2015), Editor
- *Phantom Halo* (2014), Editor
- *La Petite Mort* (2013), Editor
- *Peeples* (2013), Editor
- *Beautiful Creatures* (2013), Editor
- *What to Expect When You're Expecting* (2012), as Additional Editing
- *Wanderlust* (2012), Editor
- *Get Him to the Greek* (2010), Additional Editor
- *It's Complicated* (2009), Editor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)
- *Little Fish, Strange Pond* (2009), Editor
- *Imagine That* (2009), Editor
- *Hannah Montana: The Movie* (2009), Editor
- *P.S. I Love You* (2007), Editor
- *Freedom Writers* (2007), Editor
- *Elizabethtown* (2005), Editor
- *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou* (2004), Editor
- *Secondhand Lions* (2003), Editor
- *A Guy Thing* (2003), Editor
- *Knockaround Guys* (2001), Editor
- *The Affair of the Necklace* (2001), Editor
- *Town & Country* (2001), Editor
- *Rushmore* (1998), as Dynamite Salesman · Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)
- *Broken Vessels* (1998), Editor
- *The Evening Star* (1996), Editor
- *Jerry Maguire* (1996), Co-Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/jerry-maguire.md)
- *Bottle Rocket* (1996), Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/bottle-rocket.md)
- *The Fifteen Minute Hamlet* (1995), Editor
- *Sleep with Me* (1994), Editor
- *Father of the Bride* (1991), First Assistant Editor — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride-1991.md)
- *Dick Tracy* (1990), First Assistant Editor
- *Silverado* (1985), Apprentice Sound Editor
- *St. Elmo's Fire* (1985), Apprentice Sound Editor

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