Mike Hill, the movie editor who labored on 22 consecutive Ron Howard options, profitable an Oscar for his work on Apollo 13 and incomes nominations for A Stunning Thoughts, Cinderella Man and Frost/Nixon, has died. He was 73.

Hill died Thursday of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, a uncommon lung situation, at his dwelling in Omaha, Nebraska, a household spokesperson introduced.

Hill and modifying companion Daniel P. Hanley partnered with Howard for the primary time on Evening Shift (1982) and for the final time on Within the Coronary heart of the Sea (2015).

In between, they dealt with Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), Backdraft (1991), Ransom (1996), Edtv (1999), The Lacking (2003) and The Da Vinci Code (2006), to call simply seven movies, along with their Oscar-lauded efforts on Apollo 13 (1995), A Stunning Thoughts (2001), Cinderella Man (2005) and Frost/Nixon (2008).

Hill and Hanley additionally collected three BAFTA nominations, which included a win for Howard’s Rush (2013), and three ACE Eddie nominations.

“Mike was a exceptional and devoted collaborator on our 22 motion pictures however an much more valued pal,” Howard mentioned in a press release. “He was a gifted and lauded movie editor, however he was even prouder of his household and the life they constructed collectively in Omaha.

“Mike was a extremely smart and artistic man who lived his life with honesty, integrity and an incredible sense of irony and depraved humor. He additionally had fairly good nook leap shot as I recall from our three-on-three basketball days.”

Born in Omaha, Hill graduated from Omaha Burke Excessive College, the place he performed soccer and basketball and later was inducted into its Corridor of Fame. (He lectured typically the varsity in addition to on the College of Nebraska in Lincoln.)

His first editorial job was for an Omaha TV station as an assistant editor chopping commercials into motion pictures like Streetcar Named Need (1951) and On the Waterfront (1954), each directed by Elia Kazan.

A pair years later, Hill was an apprentice editor at Paramount when he was tasked with synch-screening dailies for Kazan on The Final Tycoon (1976), the final movie from the legendary filmmaker.

Survivors embrace his spouse, LeAnne, daughter Jesica and son-in-law Brandon.