Biography
Niven Howie is a British film editor. Born in London in 1964, he began his career editing high-end commercials and music videos in the city, completing more than 400 projects. He collaborated with director Julien Temple on the feature film Bullet (1996) and documentaries including The Filth and the Fury (2000), Glastonbury (2006) and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).
Howie edited Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), which earned him a BAFTA nomination. He has since worked on films including Dawn of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), several Resident Evil entries (2007–2012), Death Race (2008) and Step Up All In (2014). He is a member of the American Cinema Editors.
Howie received further nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for Paul McCartney's Back in the US and a BAFTA Cymru award in 2019 for His Dark Materials. He has also edited episodes of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone.
