Pia Di Ciaula

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Pia Di Ciaula
OccupationFilm editor

Pia Di Ciaula ACE, CCE is a BAFTA winning international film editor best known for editing 'A Very English Scandal', 'The Crown' and 'Tyrannosaur'.

Di Ciaula was born to Italian parents in Toronto where she began her film editing career. She received a Gemini Award Nomination for Best Editing on Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story. She received two Genie Award Nominations for Best Editing for her first two feature films, Canadian/UK co-productions, Intimate Relations starring Julie Walters, and Regeneration starring Jonathan Pryce. She then relocated to London, England and collaborated with Gillies MacKinnon on seven films including Hideous Kinky with Kate Winslet, Pure with Keira Knightley, and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells winning Judi Dench a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.

Di Ciaula's second collaboration with Keira Knightley was on Silk, written and directed by François Girard. Other features include Nora starring Ewan McGregor, and Belle.

Di Ciaula's prolific collaboration with director David Blair resulted in the multi-Emmy and BAFTA Award winning show The Street starring Timothy Spall and Tess of the D'Urbervilles starring Gemma Arterton and Eddie Redmayne.

Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke) and Di Ciaula collaborated on Altamira starring Antonio Banderas, scored by Mark Knopfler. Di Ciaula then edited A Quiet Passion with "the UK's greatest living autour" Terence Davies, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson along with Keith Carradine and Jennifer Ehle.

Di Ciaula's first collaboration with actor/writer/director Paddy Considine on Tyrannosaur won approximately 40 awards world-wide including Sundance, Best Independent British Film and a BAFTA. Di Ciaula and Considine's wonderful collaboration continued on his sophomore film Journeyman which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2017.

Di Ciaula edited the first two seasons of The Crown with three time Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry (The Reader, The Hours) and Oscar winner Peter Morgan (The Queen). The Crown is a multi-Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winner and Pia Di Ciaula was BAFTA nominated for Best Editing for Season 2, Episode 9, Paterfamilias. She also won a CCE award for the same episode.

Di Ciaula won a BAFTA for editing A Very English Scandal, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. She also received a CCE nomination. She then went on to edit QUIZ with Stephen Frears, winning a RTS award and third BAFTA nomination. Di Ciaula and Frears’ third collaboration was on The Lost King, starring Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan. It premiered at TIFF in 2022.

Di Ciaula is presently editing The Union (AKA Our Man from Jersey) starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.

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