Troy Takaki, ACE

Troy Takaki, ACE, is a top film editor who has cut such box office hits as The Bounty Hunter starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler and Hitch starring Will Smith and Kevin James, both for Sony and as part of his long successful creative collaboration with the director Andy Tennant.

Troy’s other hits include Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days for 20th Century Fox and the director David Bowers, New in Town starring Renee Zellweger for Gold Circle Films/Lionsgate, and Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon and Patrick Dempsey for Touchstone and Fool’s Gold for Warner Bros. starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, the latter two also with Tennant and Almost Christmas with director David E. Talbert.

Takaki moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to pursue his filmmaking career after graduating Cum Laude with a degree in cinema from San Francisco State University. Starting in television, he worked on such hit series as Desperate Housewives, Ally McBeal, Tales from the Crypt, and SeaQuest DSV.

Takaki segued to feature films with such notable indies as Jawbreaker starring Rose McGowan and Judy Greer, Slowburn starring Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin, and This Girl’s Life starring Rosario Dawson and Ioan Gruffudd. His success in the independents led to studio features including Because I Said So starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore for Universal and director Michael Lehmann, Stick It starring Jeff Bridges for Disney and Cheats for New Line Cinema. Over the years he has collaborated with many successful directors including Michael Apted, David Semel and Charles Shyer.

Takaki is one of the few picture editors that splits his time between features and television. He recently edited shows such as You for Netflix and Mr. Mercedes for Direct TV and just completed his fifth feature with director Andy Tennant, The Secret.

In 1998, The Hollywood Reporter voted Takaki “Emerging Talent to Watch.” In 2000, he was asked to join the prestigious ACE (American Cinema Editors, an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950) and in 2016 he was asked to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.