Lee Smith, ACE earned an Academy Award® and ACE Eddie Award for his work on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. He also earned Academy Award®, BAFTA Award, and ACE Eddie Award nominations for his work on Nolan’s The Dark Knight, and BAFTA Award and ACE Eddie Award nominations for his work on Nolan’s Inception. He and Nolan also collaborated on Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar.

Smith has enjoyed a long association with director Peter Weir, earning an Academy Award® nomination for his editing work on Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, for which he also received an Eddie Award nomination. Smith reunited with Weir for the fact-based drama The Way Back. He had earlier served as editor and sound designer on Weir’s The Truman Show, Fearless, and Green Card; an additional editor on Dead Poets Society; and an associate editor and sound designer on The Year of Living Dangerously, which began their collaboration.

Smith reunited with director Sam Mendes for the award-winning feature 1917 after first working with him on Spectre. He also edited his film Empire of Light for Searchlight. Smith helped out Ron Howard on his film Eden and Michael Gracey on Better Man.

Hailing from Australia, Smith won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Editing on Gregor Jordan’s Two Hands, on which he was also the sound designer. As a sound designer, he won an AFI Award and earned a BAFTA Award nomination for his work on Jane Campion’s The Piano and won an AFI Award for Phillip Noyce’s Dead Calm.

Smith’s other credits include the Matthew Vaughn film Argylle, The 355 and X-Men: Dark Phoenix for director Simon Kinberg, Ender’s Game, Elysium, X-Men: First Class, The Rage in Placid Lake, Black and White, Buffalo Soldiers, Risk, Joey, RoboCop 2, Communion, and Howling III.

Smith is currently in post production on his directorial debut Sirius starring Mads Mikklesen. His next project is Sam Mendes’ four films about the Beatles.