American film and television editor and documentary director
Lisa Fruchtman
Born
August 1948
Occupation
Film editor
Lisa Fruchtman (born August 1948) is an American film and television editor, and documentary director with about 25 film credits. Fruchtman won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Right Stuff (1983). With her brother, Rob Fruchtman, she produced, directed, and edited the 2012 documentary Sweet Dreams.[citation needed]
Editing career
After her high school years, Lisa Fruchtman enrolled at the University of Chicago and received an A.B. degree there in 1970.[1] She began her career as a film editor in Hollywood in 1973 with the documentary short Ten: The Magic Number. Fruchtman was an assistant to editors Barry Malkin, Richard Marks, and Peter Zinner on The Godfather Part II (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This film was edited to have a complex structure that weaves a contemporary story with a background story in Sicily at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; the film was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.[citation needed]
Fruchtman was one of several editors hired by Coppola in 1977 for the post-production of
Fruchtman's first solo credit as editor for a major studio film was for Children of a Lesser God (1986), which was director Randa Haines' first major film as well.[4] Fruchtman has cut two further films with Haines: The Doctor (1991), and Dance with Me (1998).[5]
In 1991, she was nominated for another Oscar for Coppola's The Godfather Part III, together with her co-editors Barry Malkin and Walter Murch. All three editors had long experience working with Coppola, on the earlier Godfather films and others.
In 1996, Fruchtman received an additional nomination for an Eddie for the television film
Primetime Emmy Award
(Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special - Single Camera Production).
In 2010, she received the Professional Achievement Award for alumni of the University of Chicago.[1]
Filmography (selection)
This filmography is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database.[6]
^Klady, Leonard (June 4, 1998). "Review: 'Dance With Me'". Variety. It's all lovingly captured in the fluid sweep of Fred Murphy's camera and the borderline-garish production design of Waldemar Kalinowski. And despite pic's longish running time, there's a crispness to the pace in Lisa Fruchtman's editing.