Jay Rabinowitz
- Known for
- Editing
Biography
Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor. He is most frequently associated with the films of Jim Jarmusch and Darren Aronofsky. Rabinowitz studied at the New York University, where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986). He is credited as the assistant editor for several films in the next years, including Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989-edited by Melody London). Starting with Night on Earth (1991), Rabinowitz has been the editor for seven of Jarmusch's films: Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Limits of Control (2009). Mr. Rabinowitz' editing for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) won best editing awards from the Online Film Critics Society. He was also nominated for the Online Film Critics' award for Mr. Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006).
Known For
Filmography

Is God Is
Movie · Editor

Summer Tour
Movie · Editor

O'Dessa
Movie · Editor

IF
Movie · Additional Editing

Beast
Movie · Editor

Aleph
Movie · Consulting Editor

Oslo
Movie · Editor

The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Movie · Editor

Irresistible
Movie · Editor

White Echo
Movie · Editor

Boy Erased
Movie · Editor

Junction 48
Movie · Editor

Rosewater
Movie · Editor

First Point
Movie · Editor

The Adjustment Bureau
Movie · Editor

Rampart
Movie · Editor

The Tree of Life
Movie · Editor

Women Without Men
Movie · Editor

The Limits of Control
Movie · Editor

Explicit Ills
Movie · Editor

I'm Not There
Movie · Editor

Weapons
Movie · Editor

The Fountain
Movie · Editor

Broken Flowers
Movie · Editor

Bomb the System
Movie · Editor

Dawn Anna
Movie · Editor

Coffee and Cigarettes
Movie · Editor

The Stepford Wives
Movie · Editor

8 Mile
Movie · Editor

Secretary
Movie · Additional Editing

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Movie · Editor

Requiem for a Dream
Movie · Editor

Homicide: The Movie
Movie · Editor

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Movie · Editor

Affliction
Movie · Editor

Richard Lester!
Movie · Editor

Year of the Horse
Movie · Editor

Mother Night
Movie · Editor

Clean, Shaven
Movie · Editor

Dead Man
Movie · Editor

Jimmy Hollywood
Movie · Editor

The Bowery
Movie · Editor

When Pigs Fly
Movie · Editor

Last Supper
Movie · Editor

Night on Earth
Movie · Editor
Coyote Mountain
Movie · Editor

Mystery Train
Movie · Assistant Editor