American film and television editor and documentary director
Lisa Fruchtman
Born
August1948 (age77)
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]
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 Apocalypse Now. Coppola had shot about 250 hours of film that needed to be cut down to 2.5 hours for its theatrical release. Malkin and Evan Lottman had done preliminary editing, but then dropped out of the project. The difficult editing required nearly two years. The film was released in August 1979.[2][3] In 1980, she and her co-editors Richard Marks, Walter Murch, and Gerald B. Greenberg were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the ACE Eddie Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
In 1991, she was nominated for another Oscar, for Coppola's The Godfather Part III with her co-editors Malkin and Murch. All three editors had long experience working with Coppola, on the earlier Godfather films and others.
In 1996, Fruchtman was nominated for an Eddie for the television film Truman, directed by Frank Pierson. The movie depicts U.S. President Harry S. Truman 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.[1]
Filmography (selection)
This filmography is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database.[6]
↑LoBrutto, Vincent (2013). "Apocalypse Now". The Art of Motion Picture Editing: An Essential Guide to Methods, Principles, Processes, and Terminology. Skyhorse Publishing. p.97. ISBN9781621532514. LoBrutto's account is based on earlier interviews with Marks, Greenberg, and Murch.
↑Klady, Leonard (June 4, 1998). "Review: 'Dance With Me'". Variety. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2017. 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.
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