Elliot Graham, Oscar-Nominated Film Editor on ‘Milk,’ Dies at 50

Elliot Graham, the film editor who received an Oscar nom for Milk and cut films including Steve Jobs, Captain Marvel and No Time to Die, has died. He also worked on the films 'Steve Jobs,' 'Captain Marvel' and 'No Time to Die.' Elliot Graham, the film editor who received an Oscar nomination for Milk and cut films including Steve Jobs, Captain Marvel and No Time to Die, has died. He was 50. Graham died by suicide Saturday in Los Angeles, according to the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner. The biopic Milk (2008), directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.

The film was nominated for eight Oscars including best picture and won for best actor and original screenplay. On Facebook, Oscar-nominated Milk producer Dan Jinks wrote that his movie “wouldn’t have come together in the way it did without [his] amazing work.” He then reunited with Van Sant on the romantic drama Restless (2011), starring Mia Wasikowska. Graham won a BAFTA award (shared with Tom Cross) for editing the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga in what would be the film editor’s final credit. He also produced and served as