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Nicholas Monsour

Nicholas Monsour

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Biography

Nicholas Monsour is an American film and television editor based in Los Angeles. Monsour gained wide recognition through his collaboration with writer-director Jordan Peele on the horror film Us (2019) and the science-fiction thriller Nope (2022). His feature film credits also include Keanu (2016), Next Goal Wins (2023), and Nickel Boys (2024). In television, Monsour has worked on Key & Peele (2012), The Twilight Zone (2019), The Last O.G. (2018), Cobra Kai (2018), Colin in Black & White (2021), Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016), Whiskey Cavalier (2019), Brockmire (2017), Comrade Detective (2017), Drunk History (2013), and HBO's Witness (2012). His contributions to Key & Peele (2012) earned him a 2016 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming for the episode "The End," shared with editors Richard LaBrie, Neil Mahoney, and Stevie Waichulis. Monsour's later career includes highly acclaimed work on Nickel Boys (2024). It received awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the St. Louis Film Critics Association. Throughout his career, he has been recognised by groups such as the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society, and the International Online Cinema Awards. In addition to his editorial career, Monsour has worked extensively in non-profit media production and education. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His films, video art, sculptures, installations, performances, and theatre pieces have been exhibited in multiple cities in the United States and internationally. He wrote and directed the feature film Oh My Soul, which was officially selected for the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2009.

Known For

Cobra Kai
8.2

This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.

Cobra Kai

2018
Drunk History
6.8

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America's great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

Drunk History

2013
Key & Peele
7.7

Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.

Key & Peele

2012
The Twilight Zone
6.7

Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone

2019
Brockmire
6.8

A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.

Brockmire

2017
Nope
6.8

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

Nope

2022
Teachers
5.3

Written by and starring acclaimed comedy troupe The Katydids, Teachers shows their hilariously warped perspective as six elementary school teachers trying to mold young minds, even though their own lives aren’t really together.

Teachers

2016
Us
6.9

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

Us

2019
Colin in Black and White
6.6

The life of athlete Colin Kaepernick and his adoptive parents as they navigate the challenges of raising a black son in a white family and community.

Colin in Black and White

2021
Whiskey Cavalier
6.9

Following an emotional breakup, tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: “Whiskey Cavalier”) is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Frankie Trowbridge (codename: “Fiery Tribune”). Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, funny and heroic spies who periodically save the world (and each other) while navigating the rocky roads of friendship, romance and office politics.

Whiskey Cavalier

2019
Nickel Boys
6.7

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Nickel Boys

2024
Last Looks
5.8

A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star's wife.

Last Looks

2022
Next Goal Wins
6.4

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

Next Goal Wins

2023
Candyman
6.0

A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

Candyman

2021
Comrade Detective
6.3

In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.

Comrade Detective

2017
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
6.5

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

Jean-Claude Van Johnson

2016
Keanu
6.0

Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

Keanu

2016
There's Someone Inside Your House
5.4

As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.

There's Someone Inside Your House

2021
Action Point
5.4

A daredevil designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.

Action Point

2018
Witness
6.2

Drug trafficking, poverty, gang violence, corruption and ethnic warfare have created some of the most dangerous hot spots on Earth. Follow our current generation of photojournalists into these conflict zones, see what compels them and experience why, when everyone else seeks cover, the photojournalist stands and moves closer.

Witness

2012