Lisa Fruchtman
Lisa Fruchtman ( born August 1948) is an American film editor who won an Academy Award for Best Editing, another two times was nominated for the Oscar and several other film awards.
Life
Lisa Fruchtman studied post-school at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts ( AB ) from. She began her career as a film editor in the film industry in Hollywood in 1973 the documentary short film Ten: The Magic Number and previously served in the production of 25 films.
In 1980 she was first nominated for an Oscar for the best cut with Richard Marks, Walter Murch and Gerald B. Greenberg, and indeed for Apocalypse Now (1979 ) by Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall in the lead roles. At the same time she was first nominated for the section in this movie with Gerald B. Greenburg, Richard Marks and Walter Murch for the Eddie Award by the American Cinema Editors (ACE ) and, further, for the British Academy Film Award for Best Editing.
At the Academy Awards in 1984 she won along with Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf an Oscar for best editing in the film The stuff of which heroes are the (1983 ) by Philip Kaufman with Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris. She was also with Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter and Tom Rolf another nomination for the Eddie for Best Editing in a movie.
Another Oscar nomination for Best Editing in 1991 she got together with Barry Malkin and Walter Murch for The Godfather - Part III (1990 ) by Francis Ford Coppola with the main actors Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia.
In 1996, she received another nomination for an Eddie for Best Editing in a TV movie for Truman - The man who wrote the book ( Truman, 1995) by Frank Pierson with Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid and Richard Dysart, a film adaptation of the role of U.S. President Harry S. Truman during the Second world War. At the same time she was nominated for the section in this film produced by HBO for an Emmy for outstanding individual performances at the intersection in a TV movie.
In 2010 she received the Professional Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago for their achievements in the production of films.