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ABOUT
Kevin Receiving his ACE Eddie Award for 20 FEET FROM STARDOM
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KEVIN KLAUBER, ACE (b.1986) is most known for editing two Oscar®-winning feature documentaries: ICARUS and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, for which he won an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award. Kevin's editorial debut, PEARL JAM TWENTY, came under the direction of Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe.
Since then, he's edited over 25 feature documentaries, including the 2016 Oscar®-nominated documentary WINTER ON FIRE (Netflix), FANTASTIC FUNGI, ECHO IN THE CANYON, COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK (HBO), TAYLOR SWIFT MISS AMERICANA (Netflix), CROSSFIRE HURRICANE (HBO), BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING, HARMONTOWN, and CHICKEN PEOPLE. Kevin studied film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts with an emphasis on editing and directing. In 2012, he was nominated by the WGA EAST for the feature documentary he co-wrote and edited, BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING. He has been nominated twice for the Golden Reel Award by the Motion Pictures Sound Editing Association. In 2012, he was selected to attend Werner Herzog's ROGUE FILM SCHOOL. His work as an editor, director, and writer has brought him to TV, music videos, feature films, shorts, commercials, and sizzles. Past clients include HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Lady Gaga, John Cale, Tremolo Productions, Bad Robot, Lightbox, Impact Partners, Vinyl Films, Passion Pictures, The Food Network, A&E, PBS, FOX, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Kevin is an active member of American Cinema Editors (ACE). |
"Turning it from the bad thing it's trying to be, where the sources are inarticulate,
and you don't know how to structure it, and the structure you make doesn't work,
into the shining gleaming jewel that you have in your heart… that is editing!"
— Ira Glass
and you don't know how to structure it, and the structure you make doesn't work,
into the shining gleaming jewel that you have in your heart… that is editing!"
— Ira Glass
AWARDS
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Icarus
Academy Award® - Best Documentary |
20 Feet From Stardom
ACE "Eddie" Award - Best Edited Documentary |
Winter on Fire
Academy Award® Nominee - Best Documentary |
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20 Feet From Stardom
Academy Award® - Best Documentary |
Winter on Fire
Primetime Emmy® Award Nominee - Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking |
Pearl Jam Twenty
Golden Reel Nominee (MPSE) - Best Sound Editing |
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Beauty is Embarrassing
Writers Guild of America Nominee - Best Documentary Screenplay |
Cobain: Montage of Heck
ACE "Eddie" Award Nominee - Best Edited Documentary |
Crossfire Hurricane
FOCAL International Award - Best Use of Footage in a Music Production |
"You must fortify yourself with your philosophy"
— Werner Herzog
— Werner Herzog
PRESS
SLAUSON REC premieres at the 2025 Festival de Cannes
THE BLUE ANGELS grosses $1.4 million it's opening weekend on only 255 IMAX screens
20 FEET FROM STARDOM selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, designated as a film that is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to American film heritage.
RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT receives 96% on RottenTomatoes
Read Kevin's interview in Filmmaker Magazine about editing RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT
MISS AMERICANA premieres at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Listen to Kevin's interview on the podcast ROUGH CUT (from the Video Consortium)
CONTACT
Available for documentary, narrative, and commercial projects