Christopher Tellefsen

Christopher Tellefsen
Born	(1957-04-11) April 11, 1957
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1986–present

Christopher Tellefsen (born April 11, 1957) is an American film editor.

In 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the film Moneyball.

Select filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1990	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman	First collaboration with Whit Stillman
	Revolution!	Jeff Kahn
1991	Jumpin' at the Boneyard	Jeff Stanzler
1993	Darkness in Tallinn	Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
1994	Barcelona	Whit Stillman
1995	Kids	Larry Clark
	Smoke	Wayne Wang	First collaboration with Wayne Wang
	Blue in the Face
1996	Flirting with Disaster	David O. Russell	First collaboration with David O. Russell
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman	First collaboration with Miloš Forman
1997	Gummo	Harmony Korine
	Chinese Box	Wayne Wang
1998	Legionnaire	Peter MacDonald
1999	Analyze This	Harold Ramis
	Man on the Moon	Miloš Forman
2001	Birthday Girl	Jez Butterworth
2002	Changing Lanes	Roger Michell
2003	The Human Stain	Robert Benton
2004	The Village	M. Night Shyamalan
2005	Capote	Bennett Miller	First collaboration with Bennett Miller
2006	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Dito Montiel
2007	Perfect Stranger	James Foley
2008	The Yellow Handkerchief	Udayan Prasad
2009	The Rebound	Bart Freundlich
2010	Fair Game	Doug Liman
2011	Moneyball	Bennett Miller
2014	The Drop	Michaël R. Roskam
2015	True Story	Rupert Goold
	Joy	David O. Russell
2016	Assassin's Creed	Justin Kurzel
2018	A Quiet Place	John Krasinski
2019	Light of My Life	Casey Affleck
	The Kitchen	Andrea Berloff
2021	The Many Saints of Newark	Alan Taylor
2022	The Menu	Mark Mylod
2023	Nyad	Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Jimmy Chin
TBA	The Whisper Man	James Ashcroft	Post-production

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Ref.
1986	The Color of Money	Martin Scorsese	Assistant editor
1987	My Demon Lover	Charlie Loventhal
1995	Smoke	Wayne Wang	Additional editor
2018	Widows	Steve McQueen

Music department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1990	Metropolitan	Whit Stillman	Music editor

Sound department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1989	Cookie	Susan Seidelman	Assistant sound editor

Thanks

Year	Film	Director	Role
2016	Blood Father	Jean-François Richet	Special thanks

Documentaries

Editor

Year	Film	Director
2014	Lambert & Stamp	James D. Cooper

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1995	American Cinema	1 episode

External links

• Christopher Tellefsen at IMDb