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Billy Fox (film editor)

Billy Fox, A.C.E. is an American film editor and producer with more than 35 film and television credits. He is best known as the co-editor of the 2015 movie Straight Outta Compton and editor of the 2005 movie Hustle & Flow, which won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and an Academy award for Best Original Song. He is the editor or producer of more than 12 TV series, including the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, NBC's Law & Order and Chicago Fire, and CBS's FBI.

Fox is a member of the American Cinema Editors and the recipient of several major awards. He was co-producer and editor on HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, a project for which he won an Emmy (Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing/Miniseries) and Golden Globe honors (Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television). His experience includes nine years as the editor and co-producer of NBC's Law & Order, for which he received two Emmys and four nominations. His other awards include the Peabody Award, the BDA Award, an International Monitor Award, the Humanitas Award, and the P.G.A Golden Laurel award.

Fox often collaborates with director Craig Brewer. The two have completed four projects together: Dolomite Is My Name, Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, and Footloose.

Filmography
This is a compilation of Fox's feature film credits:

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

Relive (2018)

Only the Brave (2017)

The Dig (Short) (2017)

Lowriders (2016)

Straight Outta Compton (2015) (with Michael Tronick)

Dark Places (2015)

Footloose (2011)

The Crazies (2010)

Traitor (2008)

Pride (2007)

Black Snake Moan (2006)

The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)

Four Brothers (2005)

Hustle & Flow (2005)

Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)

This is a compilation of Fox's television credits:

FBI (1 episode - Pilot) (2018)

Hostages (1 episode - Pilot) (2013)

Chicago Fire (1 episode - Pilot) (2012)

Gun Hill (TV Movie) (2011)

Detroit 1-8-7 (1 episode - Pilot) (2010)

Band of Brothers (2 episodes) (2001)

Law & Order (19 episodes) (1991-1998)

Hearts Afire (2 episodes) (1992)

The Heroes of Desert Storm (TV Movie) (1991)

Wings (28 episodes) (1990-1991)

An Eight Is Enough Wedding (TV Movie) (1989)

Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse (TV Movie) (1988)

American Playhouse (1 episode) (1988)

Pee-wee's Playhouse (7 episodes) (1987)

Personal
Fox was born William Terman Fox, on June 23, 1953 in San Diego, California, the son of Barbara (née Terman) and television executive Bill Fox (1926-). His father was general manager of KFMB-TV, the local CBS affiliate station in San Diego (where Fox got his first job at age 16, editing on the night shift). He attended San Diego City College from 1971 to 1974, where he studied telecommunications. He and his wife Serena Fox live in Santa Monica, CA, and have two children.