Craig McKay (film editor)
Craig McKay (* in Hudson Valley, New York) is an American editor, film producer and film director.
Life
After Craig McKay 1968 the Cutter Paul Jordan in the film section of terminal Mars assisted, he spent several years as an assistant editor, among others, for Evan A. Lottman in films such as Scarecrow and The Exorcist. With the TV movie Free to Be ... You & Me 1974 McKay was allowed to autonomously direct a film section for the first time. In the following years he cut then films like Melvin and Howard and Reds by Warren Beatty, for which he was honored in 1982 with an Oscar nomination for Best Editing. For the film, McKay and Dede Allen had a team of 64 assistant editors delegate to cope with five times the amount of conventional film material can. He received his second Oscar nomination for The Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme. This again goes back many years of collaboration, which includes such films as Married to the Mob, Philadelphia and The Manchurian Candidate.
Craig McKay is a member of the American Cinema Editors.