Awards & Winners

Robert C. Jones

Date of Birth 30-March-1936
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Jones, Robert Clifford Jones
Profession Screenwriter, Film Editor, Teacher
Robert C. Jones is a film editor, screenwriter, and educator. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Coming Home. As an editor, Jones has had notable collaborations with the directors Arthur Hiller and Hal Ashby. Jones has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing. Jones served at the Army Pictorial Center from 1958-1960 as a film editor, editing Army training films, documentaries, and several segments of The Big Picture television program. Jones is currently a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California. Jones is married to Sylvia Hirsch Jones,Ph.D, a psychotherapist. He is the son of film editor Harmon Jones, and the father of film editor Leslie Jones; all three editors have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Hayley Sussman, Ph.D., Jones' second daughter, is a psychologist like her mother.

Awards by Robert C. Jones

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert C. Jones.

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Being There

1979


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama
Honored for : Coming Home

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama Coming Home
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Being There
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Coming Home
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Coming Home

1978


Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Honored for : Coming Home

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Coming Home

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Bound for Glory

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World