Jay Rabinowitz
- Known for
- Editing
Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor. He is most frequently associated with the films of Jim Jarmusch and Darren Aronofsky. Rabinowitz studied at the New York University, where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986). He is credited as the assistant editor for several films in the next years, including Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989-edited by Melody London). Starting with Night on Earth (1991), Rabinowitz has been the editor for seven of Jarmusch's films: Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Limits of Control (2009). Mr. Rabinowitz' editing for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) won best editing awards from the Online Film Critics Society. He was also nominated for the Online Film Critics' award for Mr. Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006).
Filmography

Summer Tour 2026
Editor

Is God Is 2026
Editor

O'Dessa 2025
Editor

IF 2024
Additional Editing

Beast 2022
Editor

Oslo 2021
Editor

Aleph 2021
Consulting Editor

The United States vs. Billie Holiday 2021
Editor

Irresistible 2020
Editor

White Echo 2019
Editor

Boy Erased 2018
Editor

Living the Light: Robby Müller 2018
as Self

Junction 48 2016
Editor

Rosewater 2014
Editor

First Point 2012
Editor

Rampart 2011
Editor

The Tree of Life 2011
Editor

The Adjustment Bureau 2011
Editor

Women Without Men 2009
Editor

The Limits of Control 2009
Editor, Music Editor

Explicit Ills 2008
Editor

I'm Not There 2007
Editor

Weapons 2007
Editor

The Fountain 2006
Editor

Broken Flowers 2005
Editor, Music Editor

Bomb the System 2005
Editor

Dawn Anna 2005
Editor

The Stepford Wives 2004
Editor

Coffee and Cigarettes 2004
Editor, Music Editor

8 Mile 2002
Editor

Secretary 2002
Additional Editing

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Editor

Requiem for a Dream 2000
Editor, Music Editor

Homicide: The Movie 2000
Editor

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999
Editor, Music Editor

Richard Lester! 1998
Editor

Affliction 1998
Editor

Year of the Horse 1997
Editor

Mother Night 1996
Editor

Dead Man 1995
Editor

Clean, Shaven 1995
Editor

Jimmy Hollywood 1994
Editor

The Bowery 1994
Editor

When Pigs Fly 1993
Editor

Last Supper 1992
Editor

Night on Earth 1991
Editor

Alice 1990
Assistant Sound Editor
- Coyote Mountain
Coyote Mountain 1990
Editor

Mystery Train 1989
Assistant Editor

The Glass Menagerie 1987
Apprentice Sound Editor

Dead of Winter 1987
Apprentice Sound Editor
Credits from TMDB.