---
name: "Sam Sneade"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sam-sneade"
fi1m_id: "sam-sneade"
imdb_id: "nm0810929"
tmdb_id: 66732
wikidata_id: "Q101242258"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-21T04:04:05.658192+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."
---

# Sam Sneade

## Identity

Sam Sneade

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sam-sneade
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sam-sneade
- **IMDb ID:** nm0810929
- **TMDB ID:** 66732
- **Wikidata ID:** Q101242258
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101242258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810929/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66732

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 2001–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 87 (1), 2020s 70 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 79 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $111m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101242258, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810929/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66732

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*I Swear*](https://film.one/film/i-swear.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Sam Sneade is a British film editor based in London. He founded Sam Sneade Editing Limited in 1995, which was renamed Speade Limited in 2003; he later joined Stitch Editing.

Sneade began his feature film work as editor on Jonathan Glazer’s *Sexy Beast* (2000). His other editing credits include *Birth* (2004), *Stoned* (2005), *White Lightnin’* (2009), *Emily* (2022) and *I Swear* (2025). He served as additional editor on *The Favourite* (2018).

He has also edited numerous commercials for directors including Glazer, Tony Kaye and Frank Budgen. Sneade has received nominations for his editing work and won awards including Best Editor at the Creative Circle Awards and a Clio Award.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *I Swear* (2025), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/i-swear.md)
- *The Favourite* (2018), Fi1m 87, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md)
- *Sexy Beast* (2001), Fi1m 85, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/sexy-beast.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *I Swear* (2025), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/i-swear.md)
- *Rabbit Trap* (2025), Editor
- *Two Neighbors* (2025), Editor
- *The Trainer* (2024), Editor
- *Emily* (2022), Editor
- *Pram Snatcher* (2022), Editor
- *The Suspect* (2022), series, Editor
- *Lying Together* (2020), Editor
- *The Favourite* (2018), Additional Editor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md)
- *Old Boys* (2018), Editor
- *Rob and Valentyna in Scotland* (2010), as Narrator · Editor
- *White Lightnin'* (2009), Editor
- *Guantanamero* (2007), Editor
- *Stoned* (2005), Editor
- *Birth* (2004), Editor
- *Sexy Beast* (2001), Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/sexy-beast.md)
- *Final Cut* (1998), Editor
- *Becoming Capa*, Editor

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