Jay Rabinowitz
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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).
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Is God Is (2026)
Editor

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Editor

8 Mile (2002)
Editor

Beast (2022)
Editor

The Tree of Life (2011)
Editor

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Editor

The Fountain (2006)
Editor

The Stepford Wives (2004)
Editor

Dead Man (1995)
Editor

Boy Erased (2018)
Editor

Broken Flowers (2005)
Editor

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Editor

I'm Not There (2007)
Editor

Rampart (2011)
Editor

Night on Earth (1991)
Editor

Irresistible (2020)
Editor

O'Dessa (2025)
Editor

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
Editor

Oslo (2021)
Editor

Mother Night (1996)
Editor

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Editor

Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Editor

Affliction (1998)
Editor

The Limits of Control (2009)
Editor

Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
Editor

Explicit Ills (2008)
Editor

Rosewater (2014)
Editor

Dawn Anna (2005)
Editor

Clean, Shaven (1995)
Editor

Women Without Men (2009)
Editor

When Pigs Fly (1993)
Editor

White Echo (2019)
Editor

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Editor

Bomb the System (2005)
Editor

Year of the Horse (1997)
Editor

Richard Lester! (1998)
Editor

First Point (2012)
Editor

Junction 48 (2016)
Editor
Coyote Mountain (1990)
Editor

Last Supper (1992)
Editor

The Bowery (1994)
Editor





