Stephen Semel is a film editor who worked on all six seasons of Lost. He also directed Season 4's "Ji Yeon" and "The Last Recruit" in Season 6. Semel had a cameo role in the Season 3 premiere "A Tale of Two Cities", as Adam.
He was nominated in 2006 for two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series" for the episodes "One of Them" and "Live Together, Die Alone" (nominated along with Sarah Boyd and Sue Blainey). He has been nominated twice for an A.C.E (American Cinematic Editors) award and has won one. Semel appears on the DVD extras for the Lost: The Complete Third Season (DVD).
Semel has worked on the following episodes as an editor:
Season 1:
- "Walkabout"
- "The Moth"
- "Solitary"
- "Hearts and Minds"
- "Outlaws"
- "Deus Ex Machina"
- "Born to Run"
- "Exodus, Part 2"
Season 2:
- "Orientation"
- "Abandoned"
- "What Kate Did"
- "Fire + Water"
- "Maternity Leave"
- "Dave"
- "?"
- "Live Together, Die Alone"
Season 3:
- "Further Instructions"
- "The Cost of Living"
- "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
- "Enter 77"
- "Exposé"
- "Catch-22"
- "The Man Behind the Curtain"
- "Through the Looking Glass"
Season 4:
- "The Beginning of the End"
- "Eggtown"
- "The Shape of Things to Come"
- "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
- "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3"
Season 5:
- "Because You Left"
- "The Little Prince"
- "316"
- "He's Our You"
- "Some Like It Hoth"
- "The Incident, Parts 1 & 2"
Season 6:
Background
- Has worked on film projects such as Kyle XY and My Giant.
Trivia
- Out of the first three seasons, Semel stated that his favorite episodes to edit were respectively, "Walkabout", "Outlaws", and "Flashes Before Your Eyes". (The Lost Shephard)
- Semel joined the DGA as a director in December 2007. [1]
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