Geraldine Peroni
Geraldine Peroni ( born July 5, 1953 in Manhattan, New York City; † August 3, 2004 ibid ) was an American film editor who gained particular through its collaboration with director Robert Altman awareness.
Life
Although born in Manhattan, Geraldine Peroni grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens with her sister Pamela and her brother Peter on. In the course of her young life she practiced from diverse professions. She worked in a women's shelter, was a waitress, worked in a high school and in the U.S. Post Office Poughkeepsie. She was also one of the first women who passed the written exam fire department of the New York City Fire Department in 1977. As they drove taxis for Ann Service Company in New York City, she met an aspiring screenwriters who studied at Hunter College and she convinced them to join him. She wrote in and successfully graduated in film.
After her studies she received in 1983 for the first time the opportunity for the drama Three women in New York to be working as assistant editor. Then she assisted Sonya Polonsky in Matewan and Elizabeth Kling in vassals of Satan before in The Last Temptation of Christ, and could assist New York Stories of Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker twice.
In particular with the American auteur Robert Altman they shared a long-standing collaboration and deep friendship. After he invited the late 80s to France, he offered her her first autonomous film section in the Biography Vincent & Theo. It should be followed by seven more films, including Short Cuts, Prêt -à -Porter and Dr. T and the Women. According to Altman's statement that the relationship was to each other based on a deep trust that they understood each other blindly. (I totally trusted her with everything [ ... ] She and I saw very much the same way - we just read each other so well. ) The even went so far as to Altman during turning often worked with the ulterior motive, whether it his personal editor liked what he produces there. ( It gets to the point where I could be shooting a scene and a little bird wants to jump into my ear and say, ' Gerri 's not going to like this '. ) He relied so much on their judgment that they are always the Editor could prevail. So she cut scenes with the guest stars Patrick Swayze and Jeff Daniels out in The Player. For this film, she was honored average in 1993 with an Oscar nomination for Best Editing.
In addition to her 19-year membership in the American Cinema Editors it was known, above all, that they still cut with old machines like Steenbeck or Moviola and refused to learn the digital cutting technology Avid.
On August 3, 2004 Geraldine Peroni committed, according to the coroner, suicide in her house in Manhattan, which was denied, according to the family. She died during the filming of Brokeback Mountain, which is why the rest of their work was taken over by her former assistant, the U.S. editor Dylan Tichenor. Both were later nominated among other things, for a British Academy Film Award and an Eddie Award. They also posthumously received a Satellite Award.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
- Oscar 1993: Best Film Editing - The Player ( nominated )
- Satellite Awards 2005: Best Editing - Brokeback Mountain
- British Academy Film Awards 1993: Best Film Editing - The Player ( nominated )
- 2006: Best Editing - Brokeback Mountain ( Nominated )
- Eddie Awards 1993: Best Edited Feature Film - The Player ( nominated )
- 2006: Best Edited Feature Film - Brokeback Mountain ( Nominated )