Who directed the 1947 film noir for which Fergus McDonell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing?
Fergus McDonell Fergus McDonell (6 October 1910, Ticehurst, Sussex – 3 January 1984, Norwich, Norfolk) was an English film editor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for "Odd Man Out" (1947).
White Heat White Heat is a 1949 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars James Cagney as "Cody" Jarrett, Virginia Mayo as Verna, Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon aka "Vic Pardo", Margaret Wycherly as "Ma" Jarrett, and Steve Cochran as "Big Ed" Somers. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, "White Heat" is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time. In 2003, it was added to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress.