Lee Percy

Lee Percy (born February 10, 1953) is an American film editor. At the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, he received two Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie nominations for editing the 2009 television films Taking Chance and Grey Gardens, winning for the former.^[1]

Lee Percy
Born	(1953-02-10) February 10, 1953 (age 70) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Juilliard School
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1980–present

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Percy initially trained to be an actor at Juilliard before switching focus to editing.^[2]

Director Kimberly Peirce stated that Percy's editing provided the constructive structuring of the film Boys Don't Cry via deciding which scenes to keep or cut, allowing her to see which would work in the final version.^[3]

Percy made his directorial debut on the short film Dreaming American.^[4]

Percy has been a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Directors Lab as well as a mentor at the IFP.

Select filmography

As editor

• Shogun Assassin (1980)
• The Killing of America (1981)
• They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• Troll (1986)
• From Beyond (1986)
• Dolls (1987)
• Slam Dance (1987)
• Checking Out (1989)
• Blue Steel (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• Year of the Gun (1991)
• Single White Female (1992)
• Against the Wall (1994)
• Corrina, Corrina (1994)
• Kiss of Death (1995)
• Before and After (1996)
• Desperate Measures (1998)
• 54 (1998)
• Boys Don't Cry (1999)
• The Believer (2001)
• The Center of the World (2001)
• Murder by Numbers (2002)
• Maria Full of Grace (2004)
• A Home at the End of the World (2004)
• A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Mrs. Harris (2005)
• Wind Chill (2007)
• Noise (2007)
• Taking Chance (2009)
• Grey Gardens (2009)
• Into Temptation (2009)
• Amelia (2009)
• As Good as Dead (2010)
• Thin Ice (2011)
• Disconnect (2012)
• Carrie (2013)
• Dukhtar (2014)
• Angelica (2015)
• Touched with Fire (2015)
• Snowden (2016)
• The Mountain Between Us (2017)
• Mapplethorpe (2018)
• The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

As Additional/Assistant Editor

• Roar (1981)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Bernard and Doris (2006)
• Archie's Final Project (2009)
• Into the Storm (2009)
• A Dog Year (2009)
• Salt (2010)
• Cinema Verite (2011)
• What Maisie Knew (2012)

References

1. "Lee Percy - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
2. Lee Percy
3. Dannenbaum, Jed; Hodge, Carroll; Mayer, Doe (2010-06-15). Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television. ISBN 9781451603606.
4. Lee Percy to Make Directorial Debut with DREAMING AMERICAN Short Film

External links

• Lee Percy at the Internet Movie Database