Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor,^[1] and professor of film production at the University of Windsor.

Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King's TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace, which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary.

Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hogtown and Allan King’s Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon. Most recently, Hector was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's Life in a Day franchise Canada in a Day.

In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries The Perfect Story, Prey, Sharkwater Extinction, Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality, and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.

In 2018, Hector completed the movie Sharkwater Extinction after the death of Rob Stewart.^[2]

Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, and British Film Editors and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire.

• Nick Hector at IMDb