Kevin Tent

Kevin Tent is an American film editor and director Tent has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors ACE and serves as President of the board He is best known for his longstanding collaboration with Alexander Payne having edited every feature film Payne has directed as of 2023 For his work on Paynes films Tent has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Editing for his works in The Descendants and The Holdovers Tent also won an ACE Eddie award for first film and received three other ACE Eddie Award nominations for Election Sideways and About Schmidt In addition to his career in editing Tent also codirected two films Ultra Warrior 1990 and Blackbelt II 1993 and directed the 2017 film Crash Pad