Lisa Fruchtman (born August 1948) is an American film and television editor, and documentary director with about 25 film credits. Fruchtman won the

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for '' The Right Stuff'' (1983). With her brother, Rob Fruchtman, she produced, directed, and edited the 2012 documentary '' Sweet Dreams''.

Editing career

After her high school years, Lisa Fruchtman enrolled at the

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and received an A.B. degree there in 1970. 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

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, and Peter Zinner on ''

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'' (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

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. Fruchtman was one of several editors hired by Coppola in 1977 for the post-production of ''

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''. Coppola had shot about 250 hours of film that needed to be cut down to 2.5 hours for its theatrical release. Evan Lottman and

had done preliminary editing, but then dropped out of the project. The very difficult editing required nearly two years. The film was released in August, 1979. In 1980, she and her co-editors Richard Marks,

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, and Gerald B. Greenberg were nominated for the

, the ACE Eddie Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. In 1984, she won the

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for Best Film Editing for '' The Right Stuff'' (1983), along with her co-editors Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and

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. The film was directed by

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. The editors were also nominated for the ACE Eddie Award for the film. Fruchtman's first solo credit as editor for a major studio film was for '' Children of a Lesser God'' (1986), which was director

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' first major film as well. Fruchtman has cut two further films with Haines: '' The Doctor'' (1991), and '' Dance with Me'' (1998). In 1991, she was nominated for another Oscar for Coppola's ''

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'', 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 '' Truman'', which was directed by

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. The movie recounts the role of US President

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during World War II. She was also nominated for a 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.

Filmography (selection)

This filmography is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database. The director(s) of each film are indicated in the first parentheses. * 1973: ''Ten: The Magic Number'' (

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) * 1977: '' The Grateful Dead Movie'' ( Garcia and Gast) (with Susan R. Crutcher, Jerry Garcia, and John Nutt) * 1979: ''

'' (Coppola) (with Richard Marks, Walter Murch, and Gerald B. Greenberg) * 1980: '' Heaven's Gate'' ( Cimino) (with Gerald Greenberg, William Reynolds, and Tom Rolf) * 1983: '' The Right Stuff'' (

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) (with Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf) * 1986: '' Children of a Lesser God'' ( Haines) * 1986: ''

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'' * 1990: ''

'' (Coppola) (with Barry Malkin and Walter Murch) * 1991: '' The Doctor'' (Haines) (with Bruce Green) * 1993: '' Shimmer'' (

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) * 1997: ''

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'' (

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) (with Garth Craven) * 1998: '' Dance with Me'' (Haines) (with William S. Scharf) * 2002: ''

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'' ( Leeson) * 2004: ''

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'' ( Gabel) (with Lee Percy) * 2004: '' The Woodsman'' ( Kassell) (with Brian A. Kates) * 2007: '' Bonneville'' ( Rowley) (with Anita Brandt-Burgoyne) * 2010: '' Cinderella Moon'' (supervising) * 2012: '' Witness 11'' (consulting) * 2012: '' Sweet Dreams'' (R. and L. Fruchtman) (producer, director, and editor)

References

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