Wyatt Smith

Wyatt Smith (born November 12, 1974) is an American film editor. Born in New York City, Smith's career began in the music industry in the early 1990s, when he started working at Sony Music Studios in New York. Coming from a musical background — his father was a roadie — he gained early exposure to entertainment production. Over time, he developed a reputation for editing live concerts, music videos, and music-related documentaries for high-profile artists.

In 2006, Smith edited the television special *Tony Bennett: An American Classic*, directed by Rob Marshall, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera). That collaboration with Marshall proved pivotal in Smith's transition into feature films.

Smith's first major feature-film credit came in 2009 with the musical film *Nine*, co-edited with Claire Simpson. That same film earned him a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Editing.

Over the following years, Smith edited a range of high-profile films, including *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), *Thor: The Dark World* (2013), *300: Rise of an Empire* (2014), and *Doctor Strange* (2016).

In 2014, he edited the musical-fantasy film *Into the Woods*, directed by Rob Marshall. For his work on that film, he received a nomination for the ACE Eddie Awards (Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical) by the American Cinema Editors.

He also edited *Harriet* (2019), a biographical drama about Harriet Tubman.

Throughout his career, Smith has spoken about how his background in music and his experience editing concerts and music videos have influenced his editing style, particularly when working on musicals. He has described how, on a project like *Into the Woods*, he needed to balance song, dialogue, character, and pacing in a way that felt natural and emotionally honest.