IMDb Pro - New Version Oversight

Well put Melanie.

IMDb has been around for over 22 years and you'd think a resource that considers itself "Pro" should know a thing or three about the filmmaking process and how key roles are regarded and credited. (Hint: look on credit block of any movie poster!)

So save yourself a headache and avoid unnecessary embarrassment by reinstating the Film Editor to each film's front page.

In return, we'll gladly keep thinking of you as a 'Pro resource' that's worth visiting, recommending and contributing to.

Thank You.

Axel Grigor
Film Editor

To the web maestros at IMDB,

As you can appreciate film making is a collaborative process and there are a great many famous and not so famous collaborations between key personnel making the films.

Producers, Writers, DIrectors, Casting, Cinematographers, Composers, oh and of course - Editors.

There are many legendary editing collaborations in film: Martin Scorcese and Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg and Michael Kahn, Ang Lee and Tim Squyres, Alan Parker and Gerry Hambling - Of whom Alan Parker wrote in the Guardian recently for Gerry's obituary;

"Watching him work was a revelation to me, and a process that I never failed to be impressed by, in the next 30 years we spent working together.
With white glove on one hand, grease pencil in the other, he hunched over the old Moviola editing machine, his strong hands a blur as he stopped its motion with his right hand, feeding in the film with the other and then suddenly snatching it into the air, snapping closed the film-joiner and smashing down the mini-guillotine with his knuckles. The sheer physical prowess belied the extraordinary delicate nature of his cuts, which were always accurate to a single sprocket: the merest sliver of celluloid. No one has yet worked out a digital system to replicate, or better, the finesse of Gerry's editing."

Please read the whole article, as it really illustrates the personal nature of the editing collaboration and can be found here:

At the moment during testing of your new version of IMDb Pro, on a film’s front page the only credits that are being listed are (in this order):

Director, Writer, Producer, Composer, Cinematographer, Casting Director

Hopefully it is an oversight on the part of the web developers at IMDb, but we believe the Editor’s contribution to a film is vital. Downgrading the Editor credit would reduce IMDb’s credibility, and shows a clear lack of knowledge of the filmmaking process.

Thank you
Frayne Dyke-Walker
Editor - Australia

It might be the smallest "oversight".  The problems with the new Pro design go much further (like having to constantly click back and forth to see all the info on a given project.)

To the nice editors who posted:  You are very right of course, but keep in mind Imdbpro was NEVER a reference for the importance of anything.

By ignoring editors, it just demonstrated that anew.

It's a tool and one that's been downgraded massively.