Carol Littleton

Carol S. Littleton ( born October 23, 1942 in Miami, Oklahoma) is an American film editor.

Life

Carol Littleton made ​​at the College of Arts & Sciences of the University of Oklahoma in 1965 and her bachelor's degree in 1970 her Master. During this time she attended a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission in 1968, the University of Paris. There she came in contact with the French cinema and enthusiastic about the Nouvelle Vague. After graduating, she returned to the U.S. and decided to take up the profession of a film editor. In 1970, she moved to Los Angeles and founded a company that specialized in film editing of commercials. Soon they had established himself in Hollywood. The film cuts from Legacy and The Hazing they were first seen as a responsible master cutter. In the following years she had always problems to be up in the movie section, first as Lawrence Kasdan it for cutting Warmblood - In Cold Blood took them under contract, began her real career. For him, she cut among other Silverado, Wyatt Earp - The life of a legend, and Dreamcatcher. Since Kasdan as a screenwriter for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark worked, he recommended Steven Spielberg Littleton, who for ET - The Extra-Terrestrial committed. Their subsequent work was in 1983 honored with an Oscar nomination for Best Editing.

Carol Littleton is a member of the American Cinema Editors. She was from 1988 to 1991 and its President from 1994 to 2001, respectively, and from 2005 to 2007 its Vice- President.

She is married with cinematographer John Bailey.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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