Lee Percy (born February 10, 1963) 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 (1963-02-10) February 10, 1963 (age 61)
EducationJuilliard School
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1980–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.

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Editor
Year Film Director Notes
1980 Shogun Assassin
1982 They Call Me Bruce? Elliott Hong
1985 Re-Animator Stuart Gordon First collaboration with Stuart Gordon
1986 Troll John Carl Buechler
From Beyond Stuart Gordon Second collaboration with Stuart Gordon
Dolls Third collaboration with Stuart Gordon
1987 Slam Dance Wayne Wang First collaboration with Wayne Wang
1988 The Stick Darrell Roodt Credited as Lee Edward Percy
Checking Out David Leland
1990 Blue Steel Kathryn Bigelow
Reversal of Fortune Barbet Schroeder First collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1991 Year of the Gun John Frankenheimer First collaboration with John Frankenheimer
1992 Single White Female Barbet Schroeder Second collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1994 Corrina, Corrina Jessie Nelson
1995 Kiss of Death Barbet Schroeder Third collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1996 Before and After Fourth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1998 Desperate Measures Fifth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
54 Mark Christopher
1999 Boys Don't Cry Kimberly Peirce First collaboration with Kimberly Peirce
2001 The Believer Henry Bean First collaboration with Henry Bean
Lift
The Center of the World Wayne Wang Second collaboration with Wayne Wang
Bill's Gun Shop Dean Hyers
2002 Murder by Numbers Barbet Schroeder Sixth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
2003 Just Another Story GQ
2004 Maria Full of Grace Joshua Marston
A Home at the End of the World Michael Mayer
A Love Song for Bobby Long Shainee Gabel
2005 The Ice Harvest Harold Ramis
2007 Wind Chill Gregory Jacobs
Noise Henry Bean Second collaboration with Henry Bean
2009 Frank the Rat James Cozza
Into Temptation Patrick Coyle
Amelia Mira Nair
2010 As Good as Dead Jonathan Mossek
2011 Thin Ice Jill Sprecher
2012 Disconnect Henry-Alex Rubin
2013 Carrie Kimberly Peirce Second collaboration with Kimberly Peirce
2014 Dukhtar Afia Nathaniel
2015 Angelica Mitchell Lichtenstein
Touched with Fire Paul Dalio
2016 Snowden Oliver Stone
2017 The Mountain Between Us Hany Abu-Assad
2018 The Kindergarten Teacher Sara Colangelo
Mapplethorpe Ondi Timoner
Skin Guy Nattiv
2020 The Half of It Alice Wu
2021 Charming the Hearts of Men S.E. DeRose
2023 The Burial Maggie Betts
Editorial department
Year Film Director Role Notes
1981 Roar Noel Marshall Assistant editor
1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman Héctor Babenco Additional editor
1990 Naked Tango Leonard Schrader
2009 Archie's Final Project David Lee Miller Consulting editor
2010 Salt Phillip Noyce Additional editor
2012 What Maisie Knew Credited as Lee Edward Percy
2016 C Street Peter James Iengo Consulting editor
2021 Italian Studies Adam Leon Additional editor
Charming the Hearts of Men S.E. DeRose Editor
2022 Nanny Nikyatu Jusu Editing consultant
Camera and electrical department
Year Film Director Role
1980 Scared to Death William Malone Camera operator
Thanks
Year Film Director Role
2015 The Witch Robert Eggers The director wishes to thank
The Fits Anna Rose Holmer Special thanks
2019 The Kid Vincent D'Onofrio Special thanks to
2020 Juvie George LaVoo Special thanks

Documentaries

Editor
Year Film Director
1981 The Killing of America

TV movies

Editor
Year Film Director Notes
1994 Against the Wall John Frankenheimer Second collaboration with John Frankenheimer
2005 Mrs. Harris Phyllis Nagy
2009 Taking Chance Ross Katz
Grey Gardens Michael Sucsy
Editorial department
Year Film Director Role
2006 Bernard and Doris Bob Balaban Additional editor
2009 Into the Storm Thaddeus O'Sullivan
A Dog Year George LaVoo
2011 Cinema Verite Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini

TV series

Producer
Year Title Credit Notes
2013 Magic City Supervising producer 8 episodes

References

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  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
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