---
name: "Martin Pensa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martin-pensa"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T11:43:33.032220+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."
---

# Martin Pensa

Editor. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 2013–2014
- **Frequently works with:** [Jean-Marc Vallée](https://film.one/person/jean-marc-vallee.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pensa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15834221, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3819839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1287614

## Biography

Martin Pensa is a Canadian film editor. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing, shared with Jean-Marc Vallée (credited as John Mac McMurphy), for the 2013 biographical drama *Dallas Buyers Club*.

Pensa's other editing credits include *Wild* (2014), *By the Sea* (2015), *November Criminals* (2017), *Tragedy Girls* (2017), *Togo* (2019), *Fresh* (2022), *Brothers* (2024) and *Holland* (2025). He previously worked as first assistant editor and in visual effects on Vallée's *Café de Flore* (2011).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dallas Buyers Club* (2013), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/dallas-buyers-club.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Holland* (2025), Editor
- *Brothers* (2024), Editor
- *Fresh* (2022), Editor
- *Togo* (2019), Editor
- *A Million Little Pieces* (2019), Editor
- *Fast Color* (2019), Editor
- *November Criminals* (2017), Editor
- *Tragedy Girls* (2017), Editor
- *The New Empress* (2016), Editor
- *Home* (2016), Editor
- *Beauty Mark* (2016), Editor
- *By the Sea* (2015), Editor
- *Ascension* (2014), series, Editorial Manager
- *Wild* (2014), Editor
- *Dallas Buyers Club* (2013), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/dallas-buyers-club.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Dallas Buyers Club*

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

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