Nick may be the BAFTA winning editor of Emmy Award winning  programmes and films now but it was not always so!  Pursuing the passion for films and film making (and particularly the  craft of editing) that he had harboured since a teenager, Nick started working in the film and TV production industry some 25 years ago. Following three years working in a film production company, and  then a year and a half as a Computer Graphics Artist in Pullman  Video (giving him computer skills that would prove to be very useful  when non-linear editing kicked in!), and after a spell working as a  studio camera  operator and vision mixer, sound recordist and  production assistant, Nick finally managed to crack the editing job  market and cut corporate films, pop promos and commercials, as  well as a few short films. It was also around this time that he edited  news bulletins for the likes of ITN, BBC, NRK, ORF, and NHK, often  editing in foreign languages that taught Nick very quickly the  importance of intonation! It was his work as a news editor that led to Nick editing  documentaries for the Dispatches and Network First strands, as well  as for independent documentary film makers. Over the next few years Nick started to branch into drama, a move  helped along when he became the editor of all of the winning short  films in the Channel Four “Lloyds Bank Film Challenge”  competition for two years in a row (some of the shorts were  documentaries). He was soon editing both primetime dramas, such  as soap “London Bridge” and paramedic drama “Picking Up The  Pieces”, and childrens’ dramas such as “The Tomorrow People”.  Around this time he also began cutting comedy programmes, starting with Lenny Henry’s “Chef!” (series 1 and 2), and then moving  onto award winning comedies such as I’m Alan Partridge, Harry  Enfield and Chums, and “Smack The Pony” (series 1). It was  this work that led to Nick landing his first theatrical feature film in  1997, a low budget romantic comedy called “Caught in the Act”,   starring Sara Crowe, Leslie Phillips and Annette Badland. However, since 1999, when Nick worked on “Love in the 21st  Century” and then “Clocking Off” (Series 1) for Red Productions,  Nick found himself cutting drama on a permanent basis.   Since then he has worked on Emmy Award Winning series such  as “Little Dorrit” (episodes 1-5, directed by Dearbhla Walsh), high  grossing feature films such as “White Noise” (starring Michael  Keaton, directed by Geoff Sax), and BAFTA winning films such as  “Othello” (also directed by Geoff Sax), for which Nick was awarded  a BAFTA for Best Editing: Fiction.   Nick has also received two other BAFTA Best Editing nominations,  one for “Clocking Off” in 2000 (shared with Tony Cranstoun and  Edward Mansell) and one for “Casanova” in 2005.  His editing experience now cuts across period dramas (Casanova,  Miss Marple) to psychological thrillers (Child of Mine, Suspicion),  political and financial dramas (The Last Days of Lehman  Brothers), high concept CGI adventures (Primeval, Outcasts) and  both low and high budget movies, (Blessed, starring James Nesbitt,  directed by Mark Aldridge, and Love and Other Disasters, starring  Brittany Murphy, directed by Alek Keshishian, produced by Alison  Owen and Virginie Silla-Besson, executive produced by David  Fincher and Luc Besson). Nick is a governor of : THE GUILD OF BRITISH FILM AND TELEVISION EDITORS   (GBFTE) nickarthurs@sftmfilms.co.uk