Ralph E. Winters

Ralph E. Winters (June 17 1909 - February 26 2004), born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.

After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 40s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first "big" film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller "Gaslight" in 1944.

Winters is the winner of two Academy Awards (for "King Solomon's Mines" in 1950 and "Ben-Hur" in 1959) and four other nominations (for "Quo Vadis" in 1951, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in 1954, "The Great Race" in 1965 and "Kotch" in 1971). Winters also cut together such leading films as "On the Town" (1949), "High Society" (1956), "Jailhouse Rock" (1957) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968).

He was Blake Edwards' editor on twelve films made over twenty years, from "The Pink Panther" (1963) to Micki + Maude (1984). Some of the other films on which they worked together were "The Party" (1968), "10" (1979) and "Victor/Victoria" (1982). [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E0DA133EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63 "Ralph Winters, Film Editor, 94; Did "Ben Hur"] , "The New York Times" March 12, 2004. Webpage retrieved 2008-03-09.]

His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic "Cutthroat Island" in 1995.

Winters had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, [ [http://www.webcitation.org/5W3vTXmHE "American Cinema Editors > Members"] , webpage archived by WebCite from [http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html this original URL] on 2008-03-04.] and in 1991, Winters received their Career Achievement Award. In 2001, Winters published his memoir, "Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor". [Winters, Ralph E. (2001). "Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor" (Scarecrow Press) ISBN 978-0810840249.]

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