---
name: "Michael Chandler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-chandler"
fi1m_id: "michael-chandler"
imdb_id: "nm0151434"
tmdb_id: 4009
wikidata_id: "Q15835006"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T04:39:21.123945+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."
---

# Michael Chandler

## Identity

Michael Chandler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-chandler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-chandler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0151434
- **TMDB ID:** 4009
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15835006
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Chandler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15835006, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4009

Editor. Born 1 January 2000 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, United States
- **Active:** 1983–1992
- **Frequently works with:** [Carroll Ballard](https://film.one/person/carroll-ballard.md), [Mataichirô Yamamoto](https://film.one/person/mataichiro-yamamoto.md), [Tom Luddy](https://film.one/person/tom-luddy.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 75 (4), 1990s 60 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Action 2, Adventure 2, Comedy 1, History 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $134m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Chandler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15835006, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151434/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4009

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Never Cry Wolf*](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md) (79), [*Wind*](https://film.one/film/wind.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Michael Chandler is an American film editor of feature and documentary films, and a writer and director of documentary films.

He edited the 1984 film *Amadeus*, for which he shared a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing with Nena Danevic. He also received an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the film. His other feature editing credits include *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), *Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* (1985), *Howard the Duck* (1986), *Wind* (1992) and *Empire Records* (1995).

Chandler has worked extensively in documentary filmmaking. He was writer and editor of *Freedom on My Mind* (1994), which received an Academy Award nomination and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. He co-wrote and served as consulting editor on *The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers* (2009), which was also nominated for an Academy Award. He has produced and directed several documentaries, often in collaboration with Sheila Canavan through Pack Creek Productions.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Wind* (1992), Fi1m 60, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/wind.md)
- *Howard the Duck* (1986), Fi1m 43, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md)
- *Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* (1985), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Fi1m 79, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Campesino* (2019), Writer
- *Room 104* (2017), series, as Reporter (voice)
- *Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank* (2014), Director
- *Boys of Bonneville* (2011), Writer
- *The Most Dangerous Man in America* (2009), Writer, Editor
- *Knee Deep* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Empire Records* (1995), Editor
- *Freedom on My Mind* (1994), Writer, Editor
- *Digger* (1993), Editor, Writer
- *Wind* (1992), Editor — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/wind.md)
- *Amazon* (1990), Editor
- *Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven* (1989), Editor, Writer
- *Julia and Julia* (1988), Editor
- *Howard the Duck* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md)
- *Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters* (1985), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Editor — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)
- *Moses Pendleton Presents Moses Pendleton* (1982), Editor
- *Blackout*, Director, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1985: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Amadeus*

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

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