Lee Percy(I)
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Award-winning editor. Lee originally trained as an actor at the
Juilliard School. He finds this background invaluable and considers
himself lucky to have edited three films which won top acting Oscars:
Hillary Swank for "Boys Don't Cry," Jeremy Irons for "Reversal of
Fortune," and William Hurt for "Kiss of the Spiderwoman," Percy also
edited "Maria Full of Grace," for which Catalina Sandino Moreno was
nominated as best actress. He edited several movies for HBO Films and
received Emmy nominations for two them: "Grey Gardens," with Jessica
Lange and Drew Barrymore and "Taking Chance," with Kevin Bacon. Percy
took home the Emmy for the latter. All three of the actors won multiple
honors. Percy was also recognized by his peers when he received an
American Cinema Editors Eddie Award (by editors for editors) for Grey
Gardens. He was nominated for "Taking Chance" at the same time. He won
his first Eddie for HBO's "Against the Wall," one of several projects
he did with the late John Frankenheimer. Percy was also nominated for
the HBO film "Mrs. Harris" with Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley. Percy
has worked with director Barbet Schroeder on such films as "Before and
After" with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, "Kiss of Death" with Nicolas
Cage and Samuel Jackson, "Single White Female," with Bridget Fonda and
Jennifer Jason Lee, as well as "Reversal of Fortune" which starred
Glenn Close with Irons. Percy's other credits include Henry Bean's "The
Believer," winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, as well as
films with Harold Ramis, Kathryn Bigelow and Jesse Nelson. Currently
hard at work preparing to direct several features Lee looks forward to
making Dreaming American as his first.