---
name: "Jim Helton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-helton"
fi1m_id: "jim-helton"
imdb_id: "nm0375883"
tmdb_id: 968531
wikidata_id: "Q95771570"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T21:52:24.780159+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."
---

# Jim Helton

## Identity

Jim Helton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-helton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-helton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0375883
- **TMDB ID:** 968531
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95771570
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95771570, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375883/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968531

Editor. Born in Heidelberg, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Derek Cianfrance](https://film.one/person/derek-cianfrance.md), [Ron Patane](https://film.one/person/ron-patane.md), [Jamie Patricof](https://film.one/person/jamie-patricof.md), [Alex Orlovsky](https://film.one/person/alex-orlovsky.md), [Lynette Howell Taylor](https://film.one/person/lynette-howell-taylor.md), [Ryan Gosling](https://film.one/person/ryan-gosling.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (2), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 68 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 2, Comedy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $97m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95771570, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375883/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968531

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Blue Valentine*](https://film.one/film/blue-valentine.md) (82)
- **Apple TV:** [*Roofman*](https://film.one/film/roofman.md) (68)
- **HBO Max:** [*I Know This Much Is True*](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Jim Helton is a film and television editor. He studied filmmaking at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he met director Derek Cianfrance, with whom he has collaborated extensively.

Helton edited Cianfrance’s features *Blue Valentine* (2010), *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013) and *The Light Between Oceans* (2016). He also edited the HBO miniseries *I Know This Much Is True* (2020) and the feature *Roofman* (2025). He has worked on commercials and branded content, and joined the roster of Final Cut in 2017.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1973, Helton lives and works in New York City.

*Sources: imdb.com, shootonline.com, money-into-light.com, artofthetitle.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Roofman* (2025), Fi1m 68, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *I Know This Much Is True* (2020), Fi1m 63, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md)
- *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), Fi1m 66, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-place-beyond-the-pines.md)
- *Blue Valentine* (2010), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-valentine.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Roofman* (2025), Editor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *Prepartum* (2022), Editor
- *I Know This Much Is True* (2020), series, Editor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md)
- *The Light Between Oceans* (2016), Editor
- *Ice Sharks* (2016), as Captain Coffey
- *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), Editor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-place-beyond-the-pines.md)
- *Blue Valentine* (2010), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-valentine.md)
- *Lately There Have Been Many Misunderstandings in the Zimmerman Home* (2006), Editor
- *Shots in the Dark* (2001), Visual Effects

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