Daniel Rezende (born May 5, 1975) is a Brazilianfilm editor and director. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on the 2002 film City of God and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the same film. City of God was listed as the 17th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.[1]
In a 2003 interview to Channel 4, Rezende has described the editing process of City of God,[2] saying he tried to "provoke differing sensations in each of the film's phases". In addition to the international nominations and awards received for City of God, Rezende's editing has frequently been recognized by regional awards in his native Brazil and in Argentina. Rezende has also given a master editing class at the prestigious international film school EICTV in 2011.