Billy Fox, ACE

Award-winning editor Billy Fox has lent his editing talents to more than 30 feature films, television dramas, and mini-series.

His most recent project, Devotion (Black Label Media/Columbia/Sony), tells the story of the first black U.S. Navy aviator in the Korean War. It is the second film Fox has cut for Black Label Media, previously editing Only the Brave for director Joseph Kosinski.

Fox’s feature films include Straight Outta Compton for Universal Studios, which was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, and five collaborations with director Craig Brewer, including the Academy Award-winning Hustle & Flow, Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name, and Paramount’s Black Snake Moan, Footloose, and Coming 2 America. Other feature credits include The Crazies, Traitor, Dark Places and Four Brothers for director John Singleton.

Fox was editor and co-producer on the celebrated HBO mini-series Band of Brothers for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, a project for which he won an Emmy and Golden Globe honors. His experience includes nine years as the editor and supervising producer of Law & Order, for which he received two Emmys and four nominations. His other television editing credits include F.B.I, Chicago Fire, Hostages, and Wings, as well as the cult favorite Pee-wee’s Playhouse. He is the recipient of 15 other major awards, including the Peabody Award, the BDA Award, an International Monitor Award, the Humanitas Award, and the P.G.A. Golden Laurel award.