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John Ottman

A multi-faceted talent with over two decades of experience in showbiz, John Ottman is a BAFTA Award-winning American film editor and Primetime Emmy Award-nominated composer. As an editor, he is primarily known for his collaborations with writer-director Bryan Singer, with whom he has worked in movies like The Usual Suspects (1995), Superman Returns (2006), Valkyrie (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). Of these, his work in the neo-noir mystery The Usual Suspects (1995) won Ottman the BAFTA Award for Best Editing in 1996.

As a composer, Ottman has scored the music for over 35 features. Notable among these are the superhero film X2 (2003), the neo-noir black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), 
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