Lee Percy (born February 10, 1963) is an American film editor. At the

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, he received two Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie nominations for editing the 2009 television films ''

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'' and ''

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'', winning for the former. A native of

Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 73,598. It is the principal city of the Kalamazoo–Portage metropolitan are ...

, Percy initially trained to be an actor at

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before switching focus to editing. Director

Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Peirce's second feature, '' Stop-Loss'', ...

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. Percy made his directorial debut on the short film ''Dreaming American''.Lee Percy to Make Directorial Debut with DREAMING AMERICAN Short Film
/ref> Percy has been a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Directors Lab as well as a mentor at the IFP.

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Lee Percy
at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Percy, Lee 1953 births Juilliard School alumni People from Kalamazoo, Michigan Living people Film directors from Michigan American film editors