Elliot Graham, the Oscar-nominated film editor whose credits included Milk, Steve Jobs, Captain Marvel and the James Bond film No Time to Die, has died at 50.
Graham died by suicide Saturday in Los Angeles, according to the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner.
His work on Gus Van Sant’s 2008 biopic Milk earned Graham an Academy Award nomination. Written by Dustin Lance Black, the film starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California.
Milk received eight Oscar nominations, including best picture, and won the awards for best actor and original screenplay. Oscar-nominated producer Dan Jinks marked Graham’s contribution in a Facebook post, writing that the movie “wouldn’t have come together in the way it did without [his] amazing work.”
Graham later reunited with Van Sant on the 2011 romantic drama Restless, starring Mia Wasikowska.
A Career Across Film and Television
Born June 8, 1976, in Claremont, California, Graham received his first editing credit on Stephen Norrington’s 2001 thriller The Last Minute. He subsequently performed additional editing work on X2: X-Men United in 2003 before again working with director Bryan Singer as the film editor on 2006’s Superman Returns.
His other editing credits included Bill Paxton’s The Greatest Game Ever Played in 2005 and Robert Luketic’s 21 in 2008. Graham went on to edit Stephen Daldry’s Trash in 2014, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs in 2015 and Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game in 2017.
Steve Jobs starred Michael Fassbender. Graham later edited Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s 2019 film Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson.
In addition to serving as a film editor, Graham took on producing duties for the 2018 FX series Trust. The series centered on the 1973 kidnapping of teenager John Paul Getty III.
Graham also contributed additional editing to several movies, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, released in 2014, and the 2015 films I Am Michael and Beasts of No Nation.
His final credit was Cary Joji Fukunaga’s 2021 James Bond film No Time to Die. Graham and Tom Cross shared the BAFTA award for the movie’s editing, adding another major honor to a body of work that had already brought Graham Academy Award recognition for Milk.