Dany Cooper ASE
Dany Cooper is one of Australia’s best-known and respected editors. She has an extensive list of credits and awards for both local and international projects that include three ASE (Australian Screen Editors) Awards, two AFI/AACTA Wins and four time nominee, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award, IF Nomination and an Emmy Nomination.
Dany won her first AFI Award in 1994 for the feature Angel Baby (dir. Michael Rymer), a director she has worked with over the years, including In Too Deep (1999), Perfume (2001) and Queen of the Damned (2002). She was nominated for an AFI in 1997 on The Well (dir. Samantha Lang) and for Neil Armfield’s Candy (starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish) in 2006, also winning her first ASE Award that year. Other credits include Hey Hey Its Esther Blueburger (starring Toni Collette), December Boys (starring Daniel Radcliffe) and Additional Editing for Baz Luhrman’s Australia. In 2010, Dany edited Beneath Hill 60 (dir. Jeremy Sims) and won both the FCCA Award and ASE Award, along with receiving her fourth AACTA Nomination. The next year, her work on Oranges and Sunshine (dir. Jim Loach, starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving), saw her receiving the ASE Award for the second year in a row and both an IF and AACTA Nomination. Dany edited The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) for Goalpost Pictures, released in 2012 and screening at top international festivals that include Cannes, Melbourne, Telluride and Toronto. She has received an ASE Award Nomination and won an AACTA Award for her work on the film.
Dany was nominated for a 2004 Emmy Award for her work on the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica (Universal Pictures). She also worked on the groundbreaking Indigenous series for the ABC from Blackfella Films, Redfern Now on both series 1 and 2 and Southern Star/Channel Ten’s Puberty Blues Season 2. She has recently completed Deadline Gallipoli directed by Michael Rymer for NBCU Matchbox and is currently editing the feature film Holding The Man, directed by Neil Armfield.
Dany won her first AFI Award in 1994 for the feature Angel Baby (dir. Michael Rymer), a director she has worked with over the years, including In Too Deep (1999), Perfume (2001) and Queen of the Damned (2002). She was nominated for an AFI in 1997 on The Well (dir. Samantha Lang) and for Neil Armfield’s Candy (starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish) in 2006, also winning her first ASE Award that year. Other credits include Hey Hey Its Esther Blueburger (starring Toni Collette), December Boys (starring Daniel Radcliffe) and Additional Editing for Baz Luhrman’s Australia. In 2010, Dany edited Beneath Hill 60 (dir. Jeremy Sims) and won both the FCCA Award and ASE Award, along with receiving her fourth AACTA Nomination. The next year, her work on Oranges and Sunshine (dir. Jim Loach, starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving), saw her receiving the ASE Award for the second year in a row and both an IF and AACTA Nomination. Dany edited The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) for Goalpost Pictures, released in 2012 and screening at top international festivals that include Cannes, Melbourne, Telluride and Toronto. She has received an ASE Award Nomination and won an AACTA Award for her work on the film.
Dany was nominated for a 2004 Emmy Award for her work on the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica (Universal Pictures). She also worked on the groundbreaking Indigenous series for the ABC from Blackfella Films, Redfern Now on both series 1 and 2 and Southern Star/Channel Ten’s Puberty Blues Season 2. She has recently completed Deadline Gallipoli directed by Michael Rymer for NBCU Matchbox and is currently editing the feature film Holding The Man, directed by Neil Armfield.
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