Tent, ACE, Kevin

Tent, ACE, Kevin

President at American Cinema Editors

Kevin Tent (ACE) has been a professional film editor in Hollywood for nearly 30 years. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with director Alexander Payne. Their first film together was on Payne’s Sundance hit “Citizen Ruth,” starring Laura Dern, followed by the critical hit “Election” staring Reese Witherspoon (for which Tent earned his first American Cinema Editor’s nomination). Tent received his second ACE nomination for “About Schmidt” starring Jack Nicholson and his third for “Sideways” starring Thomas Haden Church & Paul Giamati.  In 2011 Tent was nominated for both an ACE and an Academy Award®  for his editing on “The Descendants”, starring George Clooney.  He won the Eddie for best dramatic film of 2011.  He was also nominated for an ACE award for his work on “Nebraska” and worked with Payne on “Downsizing” staring Matt Damon & Hong Chau.  Their most recent collaboration has them teaming again with Paul Giamati in the soon to be released “The Holdovers” (fall 2023).

After attending Los Angeles City College’s film school, Tent got his first break working for legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, cutting classic films like “Emmanuelle 5” and “Not of This Earth”.  While continuing to hone his skills in the throws of B-movies, Tent also tapped into the emerging US Independent film movement by cutting the underground hit “Guncrazy” directed by Tamra Davis.

Some of Tent’s other credits include: “Blow”, the late Ted Demme’s drug epic staring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz; James Mangold’s “Girl Interrupted” staring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, (Jolie winning an academy award for her performance); “Disconnect” directed by Henry Alex Rubin; “Welcome To Me” starring Kristin Wigg; and “Parched” a foreign language film (in Hindi) by Indian director Leena Yadav. More recently, Tent was the editor on the crowd pleasing hit “The Peanut Butter Falcon” staring Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen. Tent has worked with director Barry Sonnenfeld on numerous projects, he has also worked with Nancy Meyers and on projects with Martin Scorsese.

In 2017 Tent made is directorial debut with the comedy “Crash Pad” staring Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, and Nina Dobrev. 

In the fall of 2020 Tent was proud to have been elected President of American Cinema Editors and was re-elected for a second term in fall of 2022. In addition to his association with ACE, he is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.