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Shawn Paper | |
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| Education | Bennington College |
| Occupations | Film and television editor |
Shawn Paper is an American film and television editor. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2016 for editing the Veep episode "Mother" and for a Children's & Family Emmy Award in 2022 for his work on Sweet Tooth, shared with Michael Berenbaum.[1][2] He also received an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nomination for "Mother" in 2017.[3]
Paper's television credits include Girls, Parks and Recreation, Veep, What We Do in the Shadows, Sweet Tooth, and Platonic.[4][5][6][2][7] His feature-film work includes That Awkward Moment (2014), The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020), and Love, Brooklyn (2025).[8][9][10]
Career
[edit]Paper attended Bennington College, where he studied theater and literature.[4][11] In a 2025 interview with Filmmaker, he said that he began working in post-production during the transition to digital editing in the mid-1990s. He described an early apprenticeship assisting veteran editor Fred Berger on Dallas reunion television films using the Lightworks editing system.[11]
Television
[edit]Paper worked as an editor on television comedies including Parks and Recreation and Girls before editing three episodes of the fifth season of HBO's Veep.[4][5] His editing of the 2016 episode "Mother" received a nomination for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.[1][12] The episode also received a 2017 American Cinema Editors nomination for Best Edited Half-Hour Series.[3]
In 2019, Paper edited episodes of the first season of the FX comedy What We Do in the Shadows.[6] He later worked on the first season of the Netflix fantasy drama Sweet Tooth.[2] Paper and Michael Berenbaum were nominated at the inaugural Children's & Family Emmy Awards for Outstanding Editing for a Single Camera Program for the series.[2]
His subsequent television work has included Platonic, for which he edited the first-season episode "Partner's Retreat".[7]
Film
[edit]Paper co-edited the 2014 comedy-drama That Awkward Moment, directed by Tom Gormican, with Greg Tillman.[8][13]
Paper edited Natalie Krinsky's 2020 feature The Broken Hearts Gallery. In a Variety feature on the film's craft departments, Paper discussed restructuring and compressing the film's opening to accelerate the story while retaining its character and comedy beats.[9] In a separate interview, he described incorporating material from improvisation and reorganizing scenes and montages during post-production.[14]
Paper subsequently edited Love, Brooklyn, the feature directorial debut of Rachael Abigail Holder. The film premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.[10] In a Filmmaker interview, Paper described restructuring the opening and experimenting with chronology after executive producer Steven Soderbergh encouraged the filmmakers to draw on the editing approach of Soderbergh's film The Limey.[11]
Selected filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | That Awkward Moment | Co-editor |
| 2020 | The Broken Hearts Gallery | Editor |
| 2025 | Love, Brooklyn | Editor |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2009–2011 | Parks and Recreation | Editor |
| 2012–2015 | Girls | Editor |
| 2016 | Veep | Editor |
| 2019 | What We Do in the Shadows | Editor |
| 2021 | Sweet Tooth | Editor |
| 2023 | Platonic | Editor |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series | Veep – "Mother" | Nominated |
| 2017 | ACE Eddie Award | Best Edited Half-Hour Series | Veep – "Mother" | Nominated |
| 2022 | Children's & Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Editing for a Single Camera Program | Sweet Tooth | Nominated |
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series 2016". Television Academy. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Outstanding Editing for a Single Camera Program" (PDF). Children's & Family Emmy Awards. National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "'La La Land,' 'Moonlight,' 'Manchester by the Sea' Nominated for ACE Eddie Awards". TheWrap. January 3, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Interview: Editor Shawn Paper Discusses The Broken Hearts Gallery". Monkeys Fighting Robots. September 13, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "Veep". Television Academy. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "Picture Editing 2019 Ballot" (PDF). Television Academy. 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "Picture Editing 2024 Ballot" (PDF). Television Academy. 2024. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "That Awkward Moment". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 Tangcay, Jazz (September 11, 2020). "'Broken Hearts Gallery': Breaking Down the Crafts of the Romcom". Variety. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 "Love, Brooklyn". Sundance Film Festival. 2025. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Editor Shawn Paper, Love, Brooklyn". Filmmaker. January 27, 2025. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- ↑ "Emmy Nod Times Two". Bennington College. July 14, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- ↑ "Film Review: 'That Awkward Moment'". Variety. January 28, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
- ↑ Hullfish, Steve (September 8, 2020). "Art of the Cut with Shawn Paper, ACE on editing "The Broken Hearts Gallery"". ProVideo Coalition. Retrieved August 28, 2026.
External links
[edit]- Shawn Paper at IMDb