Mike J. Nichols

Mike J. Nichols is an American film editor, producer, director and writer, originally from Illinois and working in Los Angeles. He is best known for The Phantom Edit, his unauthorized re-cut of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, which was the first fan edit of a feature film to be shared by an online audience and made him the subject of press coverage in 2001. His later credits are mostly in documentary film: he edited The Last Play at Shea, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, wrote Echo in the Canyon, which won a Hollywood Music in Media Award for best music documentary, and edited and produced Zappa, a South by Southwest selection that was nominated for a Critics Choice Movie Award. In 2020 he made his directorial debut on the festival circuit with a short film about a Super 8 music video he made thirty years earlier. In television he has written, produced and edited series for Fuel TV and Scripps Networks.