- Pietro Scalia
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name = Pietro Scalia
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birthname = Pietro Scalia
birthdate = Birth date|1960|3|17
birthplace =Sicily
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academyawards = Best Editing 1991 "JFK"
Best Editing 2001 "Black Hawk Down"
baftaawards = Best Editing 1991 "JFK"
Best Editing 2000 "Gladiator"
awards = ACE Eddie 1991 "JFK"
ACE Eddie 2000 "Gladiator"
ACE Eddie 2001 "Black Hawk Down"Pietro Scalia (born
March 17 1960 ) is anAcademy Award winning Italian-Americanfilm editor .He was born in
Sicily , but later he moved toSwitzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to theUnited States to pursue his college education. He has spent two years at theUniversity at Albany, The State University of New York , after which he was accepted as an undergraduate atUCLA . The Swiss government's scholarship helped him though five years of UCLA and in 1985 he earned hisMaster of Fine Arts from theUCLA Film School .After his MFA, a couple of short films, a screenplay, two video documentaries, and a 16mm thesis film, he returned to Europe to pursue his desire to become a film director. Shortly afterwards, he returned to United States on a work visa to pursue his career in Hollywood as a film editor. He began as an editor on
Andrei Konchalovski 's "Shy People". Later, he received an assistant editor position working withOliver Stone . However, it wasn't easy to get the job. Scalia admired Oliver Stone's work, especially "Salvador", so he decided he wanted to work with that director. He got a contact through the sister of one of the assistant editors. Scalia worked on such films like "Wall Street" (1987) and "Talk Radio" (1988). He later continued as an associate editor on "Born on the Fourth of July" and as an additional editor on "The Doors".After five years of working with Oliver Stone, Scalia was finally asked to fully edit a film. It was "JFK", for which Scalia and his co-editor,
Joe Hutshing , were honored with anAcademy Award for Film Editing . Craig McKay was nominated the same year for editing "The Silence of the Lambs". Interestingly enough, Scalia would edit a sequel to the movie, "Hannibal" ten years later. He also received a BAFTA Award and A.C.E. Award for his work.Pietro Scalia worked with
Bernardo Bertolucci on "Little Buddha " (1993) and "Stealing Beauty " (1996), as well as withSam Raimi on "The Quick and the Dead " (1995). He earned two more Academy Award nominations: first in 1997 for "Good Will Hunting " and second in 2000 for "Gladiator ", and a second Academy Award for directorRidley Scott 's "Black Hawk Down". He also edited "G.I. Jane " and a pilot episode of a TV series "American Gothic" in late 1990s.In the recent years, Scalia edited such movies as "Levity" (2003) directed by
Ed Solomon , a documentary entitled "Ashes and Snow", "The Great Raid" directed by John Dahl, and "Memoirs of a Geisha", one of the most publicized movies of 2005, directed byRob Marshall . He recently finished "Hannibal Rising", a movie that tells a story of teenagers Hannibal and Mischa Lecter after their parents are killed in World War II. It was directed byPeter Webber and released in 2006. Most recently, he worked with directorRidley Scott on "American Gangster", which was released in late 2007.Filmography
As film editor:
* "
Megaville " (1990)
* "JFK" (1991)
* "Jackpot" (1992)
* "Little Buddha " (1993)
* "The Quick and the Dead" (1995)
* "American Gothic" (1995 TV pilot, first cut)
* "Stealing Beauty " (1996)
* "G.I. Jane " (1997)
* "Good Will Hunting (1997)
* "The Big Hit " (1998)
* "Playing by Heart " (1998)
* "Gladiator" (2000)
* "Hannibal" (2001)
* "Black Hawk Down" (2001)
* "Levity" (2003)
* "Masked and Anonymous " (2003)
* "Ashes and Snow " (2005)
* "The Great Raid " (2005)
* "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005)
* "American Gangster" (2007)
* "Hannibal Rising" (2007)Oscar nominations & wins
*2002 – "Black Hawk Down" (won)
*2001 – "Gladiator" (nominated)
*1998 – "Good Will Hunting " (nominated)
*1992 – "JFK" (won w/ co-editor,Joe Hutshing )External links and references
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