---
name: "Hervé de Luze"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/herve-de-luze"
fi1m_id: "herve-de-luze"
imdb_id: "nm0217959"
tmdb_id: 3564
wikidata_id: "Q513939"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T23:53:01.837831+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."
---

# Hervé de Luze

## Identity

Hervé de Luze

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/herve-de-luze
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** herve-de-luze
- **IMDb ID:** nm0217959
- **TMDB ID:** 3564
- **Wikidata ID:** Q513939
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_de_Luze, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217959/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3564

Editor. Born 1 January 1949 in France.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1949, France
- **Active:** 1979–2002
- **Also known as:** Hervé Deluze
- **Frequently works with:** [Roman Polanski](https://film.one/person/roman-polanski.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 74 (1), 1990s 74 (1), 2000s 87 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 1, Thriller 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $148m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_de_Luze, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217959/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3564

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Pianist*](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md) (87), [*Death and the Maiden*](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md) (74)

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## Biography

Hervé de Luze is a French film editor born in 1949. He has around fifty feature film credits and is also credited as Hervé Deluze.

He edited eight films for director Claude Berri between 1981 and 1999, and has been Roman Polanski's principal editor since *Pirates* (1986), including *The Pianist* (2002). He has also worked with Alain Resnais on several films.

de Luze won César Awards for best editing on *On connaît la chanson* (1997), *Ne le dis à personne* (2006) and *The Ghost Writer* (2010), and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for *The Pianist*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Pianist* (2002), Fi1m 87, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)
- *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md)
- *Tess* (1979), Fi1m 74, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/tess.md)

## Complete filmography (79)

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

- *Hijra* (2025), Editor
- *Songs of Adam* (2024), Editorial Consultant
- *Headwind* (2024), Editor
- *The Palace* (2023), Editor
- *Our Lady of the Nile* (2020), Editor
- *An Officer and a Spy* (2019), Editor
- *Little White Lies 2* (2019), Editor
- *Raoul Taburin* (2019), Editor
- *Yao* (2019), Editor
- *Joint Custody* (2017), Editor
- *Rock'n Roll* (2017), Editor
- *Open at Night* (2017), Editor
- *Down by Love* (2016), Editor
- *The Brand New Testament* (2015), Editor
- *Santa Claus* (2014), Editor
- *Twilight of Shadows* (2014), Editor
- *In the Name of My Daughter* (2014), Editor
- *Life of Riley* (2014), Editor
- *Blood Ties* (2013), Editor, Thanks
- *Venus in Fur* (2013), Editor
- *The Patience Stone* (2013), Editor
- *An Afghan Love Story* (2013), Editor
- *You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet* (2012), Editor
- *Land of Oblivion* (2012), Editor
- *Carnage* (2011), Editor
- *Unforgivable* (2011), Editor
- *Little White Lies* (2010), Editor
- *The Ghost Writer* (2010), Editor
- *Wild Grass* (2009), Editor
- *Kabuli Kid* (2009), Editor
- *Staten Island* (2009), Editor
- *Private Fears in Public Places* (2006), Editor
- *Tell No One* (2006), Editor
- *Oliver Twist* (2005), Editor
- *The Perfume of the Lady in Black* (2005), Editor
- *Me and My Sister* (2004), Editor
- *Welcome to Switzerland* (2004), Editor
- *Not on the Lips* (2003), Editor
- *The Mystery of the Yellow Room* (2003), Editor
- *The Pianist* (2002), Editor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)
- *24 Hours in the Life of a Woman* (2002), Editor
- *Far Away* (2001), Editor
- *Freedom-Oleron* (2001), Editor
- *Esther Kahn* (2000), Editor
- *The Taste of Others* (2000), Editor
- *The Ninth Gate* (1999), Editor
- *Hard Off* (1999), Editor
- *Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar* (1999), Editor
- *Zonzon* (1998), Editor
- *Same Old Song* (1997), Editor
- *Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer* (1997), Editor
- *Lucie Aubrac* (1997), Editor
- *Le Garçu* (1995), Editor
- *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md)
- *Germinal* (1993), Editor
- *Bitter Moon* (1992), Editor
- *City of Joy* (1992), Editor
- *Uranus* (1990), Editor
- *To Kill a Priest* (1988), Editor
- *Jeux d'artifices* (1987), Editor
- *Manon of the Spring* (1986), Editor
- *Jean de Florette* (1986), Editor
- *Pirates* (1986), Editor
- *So Long, Stooge* (1983), Editor
- *Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ* (1982), Editor
- *The School Teacher* (1981), Editor
- *I Love You All* (1980), Sound Editor
- *Anna Luna* (1980), Editor
- *Tess* (1979), Sound Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/tess.md)
- *Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses* (1979), Assistant Editor
- *La Maison qui pleure* (1979), Editor
- *Mais où et donc Ornicar* (1979), Assistant Editor
- *Nature morte* (1978), Editor
- *Peppermint Soda* (1977), Sound Editor
- *Young Prey* (1977), Editor
- *La Décharge* (1976), Editor
- *Serenity!* (1970), Actor
- *The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers* (1964), Editor
- *The River of Diamonds* (1964), Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2003: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *The Pianist*

### Other awards — 4 won, 1 nominated

- César Award for Best Editing 2011: César Award for Best Editing (won), for *The Ghost Writer*
- Knight of the National Order of Merit 2011: Knight of the National Order of Merit (won)
- European Film Award for Best Editor 2010: European Film Award for Best Editor (nominated), for *The Ghost Writer*
- César Award for Best Editing 2007: César Award for Best Editing (won), for *Tell No One*
- César Award for Best Editing 1998: César Award for Best Editing (won), for *Same Old Song*

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

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