Biography

Jim Hession is an Emmy-winning and ACE Eddie-nominated film editor with a collection of acclaimed films that have garnered a wide range of honors, including a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a Berlinale Audience Award, a Producers Guild Award, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Critics Choice Awards, and four Emmy Awards.

Many of his works, seen on major networks and platforms such as HBO, Showtime, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hulu, and Netflix, have received high praise. Writing in Artforum, iconoclastic filmmaker John Waters lauded Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present as "maybe the most perfect documentary ever made about an artist," while Godfrey Cheshire of RogerEbert hailed Rich Hill as "a documentary to rank alongside such classics about indigence and family as 'Grey Gardens' and 'Hoop Dreams.'" Most recently, Variety's Clayton Davis praised American Symphony as "quite possibly one of the best love stories seen on film in over two decades."

He is a three-time Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellow and the recipient of the 3rd Annual Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Award. He holds a B.A. in American Studies from Tufts University.

Hession resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Dr. Mariela Hession, M.D., and their four children: Isabella Rose, Adrian Brody, James Matteo, and Anna Mar.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Hession

Jim Hession, ACE, is an Emmy-winning and Eddie-nominated film editor with a collection of acclaimed films that have garnered a wide range of honors, including a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a Berlinale Audience Award, a Producers Guild Award, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Critics Choice Awards, and four Emmy Awards.

Many of his works, seen on major networks and platforms such as HBO, Showtime, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hulu, and Netflix, have received high praise. Writing in Artforum, iconoclastic filmmaker John Waters lauded Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present as "maybe the most perfect documentary ever made about an artist," while Godfrey Cheshire of RogerEbert hailed Rich Hill as "a documentary to rank alongside such classics about indigence and family as 'Grey Gardens' and 'Hoop Dreams.'" Most recently, Variety's Clayton Davis praised American Symphony as "quite possibly one of the best love stories seen on film in over two decades."

Hession is a member of American Cinema Editors. He is also a three-time Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellow, the recipient of the 3rd Annual Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Award, and a graduate of Tufts University.

Hession resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Dr. Mariela Hession, M.D., and their four children: Isabella Rose, Adrian Brody, James Matteo, and Anna Mar.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Hession

Winner of the 2013 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Award.

Rich Hill, edited by Jim Hession, was the winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize (Documentary) at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Rich Hill, edited by Jim Hession, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize (Documentary) at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Jim Hession is an Emmy-nominated film editor known for "Rich Hill" and "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.".