Kirk Baxter

Kirk Baxter

Birth : 1972-01-01, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

History

Australian film editor. He has worked with director David Fincher and fellow editor Angus Wall several times. Most notably for films The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo winning Academy Award for each.

Profile

Kirk Baxter

Movies

The Killer
Editor
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Dumb Money
Editor
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Mank
Editor
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
The Wolf
Editor
If you're not taking your printer security seriously, someone else might be. From director Lance Acord comes The Wolf starring Christian Slater
One More Time with Feeling
Additional Editor
Documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
Gone Girl
Editor
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Editor
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
The Social Network
Editor
The tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Editor
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Pol Pot's Birthday
Supervising Editor
The office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw their boss a surprise birthday party.