Kevin Tent, ACE has been a somewhat professional film editor in Hollywood for nearly 30 years. He is best known for his longtime collaboration with director Alexander Payne. Their first film together was on Payne’s Sundance hit Citizen Ruth, starring Laura Dern. Followed by the critical hit, Election staring Reese Witherspoon (for which Tent earned his first ACE Eddie Award nomination). Tent received his second Eddie nomination for About Schmidt starring Jack Nicholson and his third for Sideways starring Thomas Haden Church and Paul Giamatti.

In 2011, Tent was nominated for both an Eddie and an Academy Award for his editing on The Descendants, starring George Clooney. He won the Eddie for best dramatic film of 2011. He was nominated for an Eddie Award for his work on Nebraska and worked with Payne on Downsizing starring Matt Damon and Hong Chau. Their most recent collaboration had them teaming again with Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers, earning Tent an Academy Award nomination and ACE Eddie Award.

After attending Los Angeles City College’s film school, Tent got his first break working for legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, cutting classic films like Emmanuelle 5 and Not of This Earth. While continuing to hone his skills in the throes of B-movies, Tent  tapped into the emerging U.S. Independent film movement by cutting the underground hit Guncrazy directed by Tamra Davis.

Some of Tent’s other credits include Blow,  the late Ted Demme’s drug epic starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz; James Mangold’s Girl Interrupted starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, (Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance); Disconnect directed by Henry Alex Rubin; Welcome To Me starring Kristen Wiig; and Parched, a foreign language film (in Hindi) by Indian director Leena Yadav. More recently Tent was the editor on the crowd pleasing hit The Peanut Butter Falcon starring Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen. Tent has worked with director Barry Sonnenfeld on numerous projects, he has also worked with Nancy Meyers and on projects with Martin Scorsese.

In the fall of 2020 Tent was proud to have been elected President of American Cinema Editors and was re-elected for a second term in fall of 2022.  In addition to his association with ACE, he is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.