Chris Innis
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Christina Jean "Chris" Innis is an American
film editor and filmmaker. She was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E
awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt Locker
, shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski
. She is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors
.
, California
, the eldest daughter of architect
Donald Innis
and his wife, teacher and floral designer, Virginia.
Chris Innis moved to the Bay Area where she graduated from U.C. Berkeley, majoring in film studies. While a student at Cal Berkeley, Innis interned for several San Francisco production companies, including the commercial company owned and operated by cinematographer Ron Eveslage
(most famous for George Lucas
' lighting and camera work on American Graffiti
).
(The Quick and the Dead), Joe Hutshing
(Indecent Proposal
), Jay Freund (The Wash), and DesiLu I Love Lucy
TV series editor, editor of Russ Meyer
's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
, Dann Cahn Sr.
Dann Cahn
had also famously trained Steven Spielberg
's long-time film editor, Michael Kahn
.
Innis completed post-graduate film studies at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the school started by Walt Disney
. At CalArts, Innis received a MFA
degree in filmmaking. While at CalArts, in addition to directing and producing several student films and experimental videos, Chris Innis would go on to edit music videos featuring rappers Ice Cube
, Onyx and DMX
, as well as edit the first music video directed by film director Ridley Scott
's daughter, Jordan Scott (Fine "Industrial is Dead"). Innis also directed and/or produced almost two dozen karaoke
videos of favorite hits for Japanese firm Pioneer Electronics, including karaokes for Prince
and Aerosmith
.
After a move to Hollywood, Innis worked on several independent films, before being asked to work as an apprentice editor on director Oliver Stone
's Oscar-winning film, JFK
. Chris Innis was mentored for the following six years by multiple Academy Award-winning film editor, Pietro Scalia
. The two would work as a team on films such as director Ridley Scott
's film G.I. Jane
starring Demi Moore
, White Man's Burden
starring John Travolta
, as well as the TV pilot American Gothic
, among other film and commercial projects.
Innis progressed as an assistant editor, music editor and film editor for cult film director Sam Raimi
(known for The Evil Dead
series of films and later to become well known for the successful Spider-Man
films). Innis was promoted to first assistant editor on Raimi's western genre-bender, The Quick and the Dead (starring Sharon Stone
), which started a long-term working relationship and friendship with Sam Raimi. Innis was then promoted by Raimi to the job of editor on the CBS/Universal
cult horror TV series, American Gothic
. Innis has since edited several films, including the Academy Award winning Iraq war film about EOD military bomb techs which was shot in Jordan
, The Hurt Locker
for action film director, Kathryn Bigelow
(of Near Dark
fame).
Innis has worked as a co-producer, writer, and editor with Bob Murawski
and Sage Stallone
on the distribution of cult horror films for Grindhouse Releasing
and Murawski's Box Office Spectaculars distribution companies. The companies have meticulously restored and digitally remastered classic European cult horror films Make Them Die Slowly (aka Cannibal Ferox
(1981)) and Lucio Fulci
's spaghetti-horror masterpiece, E tu vivrai nel terrore (aka The Beyond) (1981) as well as Cannibal Holocaust
(1980), homegrown American cult favorite, I Drink Your Blood
(1970) (directed by David E. Durston
), director Juan Piquer Simón
's Spanish slasher film, Pieces, Cat in the Brain
also directed by Italian horror filmmaker, Lucio Fulci, Gone with the Pope
directed by Duke Mitchell
as well as An American Hippy in Israel directed by Amos Sefer.
Innis has also written and directed several films and experimental videos. One of Chris Innis' videos was featured in the group show "About TV: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art" which screened at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park
(along with fellow experimental video artists Bill Viola
, Nam June Paik
, and Nancy Buchanan). Innis was also a past quarter-finalist and semi-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Don and Gee Nicholl's Fellowship in Screenwriting Awards, as well as a past semi-finalist in The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project. Innis has also screened at LA Freewaves.
Bob Murawski
. The two editors were first introduced to one another by film director Sam Raimi
and met while both were editing the Universal
/CBS cult television series executive produced by Raimi, American Gothic
The couple married shortly after completing work on The Hurt Locker
. Her sister is well-known Bay Area artist, Cynthia Ona Innis
, who has also served as production designer on some of Innis' films.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film editor and filmmaker. She was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...
awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
, shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
. She is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...
.
Early life
Innis was born and raised in San DiegoSan Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, the eldest daughter of architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
Donald Innis
Donald Innis
Donald Alywn Innis, , is an American architect based in San Diego, California. Innis is also an inventor and engineer and has pioneered the idea of floating real estate, specifically the notion of a floating airport using pneumatic stabilized platform technology which he has developed and patented...
and his wife, teacher and floral designer, Virginia.
Chris Innis moved to the Bay Area where she graduated from U.C. Berkeley, majoring in film studies. While a student at Cal Berkeley, Innis interned for several San Francisco production companies, including the commercial company owned and operated by cinematographer Ron Eveslage
Ron Eveslage
Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage are American cinematographers best known for their work with film director George Lucas on the sleeper hit film, 1973's American Graffiti....
(most famous for George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
' lighting and camera work on American Graffiti
American Graffiti
American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age film co-written/directed by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford...
).
Career highlights
Music video director David Rathod was directing and editing his first independent feature film, West is West. Rathod first introduced Chris Innis to a cutting room, and she was hired to work on the film as an assistant editor. Innis would later apprentice under film editors Pietro ScaliaPietro Scalia
Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
(The Quick and the Dead), Joe Hutshing
Joe Hutshing
Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe...
(Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal is a 1993 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard. It was directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson.-Plot:...
), Jay Freund (The Wash), and DesiLu I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
TV series editor, editor of Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....
's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...
, Dann Cahn Sr.
Dann Cahn
Dann Cahn is an American film editor who has received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors . Cahn is best known as the head editor of the TV series, I Love Lucy and for his work as the head of post-production of comediene Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Playhouse...
Dann Cahn
Dann Cahn
Dann Cahn is an American film editor who has received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors . Cahn is best known as the head editor of the TV series, I Love Lucy and for his work as the head of post-production of comediene Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Playhouse...
had also famously trained Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
's long-time film editor, Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn (film editor)
Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
.
Innis completed post-graduate film studies at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the school started by Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
. At CalArts, Innis received a MFA
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
degree in filmmaking. While at CalArts, in addition to directing and producing several student films and experimental videos, Chris Innis would go on to edit music videos featuring rappers Ice Cube
Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...
, Onyx and DMX
DMX (rapper)
Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is a multiplatinum American rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name pays tribute to the Oberheim DMX drum machine, an instrument he used when he made his own rap beats in the 80's...
, as well as edit the first music video directed by film director Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...
's daughter, Jordan Scott (Fine "Industrial is Dead"). Innis also directed and/or produced almost two dozen karaoke
Karaoke
is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
videos of favorite hits for Japanese firm Pioneer Electronics, including karaokes for Prince
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
and Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
.
After a move to Hollywood, Innis worked on several independent films, before being asked to work as an apprentice editor on director Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
's Oscar-winning film, JFK
JFK (film)
JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
. Chris Innis was mentored for the following six years by multiple Academy Award-winning film editor, Pietro Scalia
Pietro Scalia
Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
. The two would work as a team on films such as director Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...
's film G.I. Jane
G.I. Jane
G.I. Jane is a 1997 American action film directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Largo Entertainment, Scott Free Productions and Caravan Pictures, distributed by Hollywood Pictures and starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen. The film tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo training...
starring Demi Moore
Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher , known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...
, White Man's Burden
White Man's Burden (film)
White Man's Burden is a 1995 dramatic film about racism in an alternative America where black and white Americans have reversed cultural roles....
starring John Travolta
John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease...
, as well as the TV pilot American Gothic
American Gothic (TV series)
American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by Sam Raimi. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996.-Plot:...
, among other film and commercial projects.
Innis progressed as an assistant editor, music editor and film editor for cult film director Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...
(known for The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker. The film is a story of five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a wooded area...
series of films and later to become well known for the successful Spider-Man
Spider-Man (film)
Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp...
films). Innis was promoted to first assistant editor on Raimi's western genre-bender, The Quick and the Dead (starring Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...
), which started a long-term working relationship and friendship with Sam Raimi. Innis was then promoted by Raimi to the job of editor on the CBS/Universal
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
cult horror TV series, American Gothic
American Gothic (TV series)
American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by Sam Raimi. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996.-Plot:...
. Innis has since edited several films, including the Academy Award winning Iraq war film about EOD military bomb techs which was shot in Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
, The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
for action film director, Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American film director. Her best-known films are the cult horror film Near Dark , the surfer/bank robbery action picture Point Break , the science fiction/film noir Strange Days , the historical/mystery film The Weight of Water and the war drama The Hurt Locker...
(of Near Dark
Near Dark
Near Dark is an American vampire/Western horror film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. The story follows a young man in a small midwestern town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires...
fame).
Innis has worked as a co-producer, writer, and editor with Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
and Sage Stallone
Sage Stallone
Sage Moonblood Stallone is an American actor, director, producer and writer.-Early life:Stallone is the son of Sasha Czack and actor Sylvester Stallone. He is the brother of Seargeoh Stallone, and half-brother of Sistine, Sophia and Scarlet Stallone. His uncle is actor/singer Frank Stallone and...
on the distribution of cult horror films for Grindhouse Releasing
Grindhouse Releasing
Grindhouse Releasing is a Hollywood-based cult film distribution company owned by director/actor Sage Stallone and headed up by film editor Bob Murawski...
and Murawski's Box Office Spectaculars distribution companies. The companies have meticulously restored and digitally remastered classic European cult horror films Make Them Die Slowly (aka Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Ferox, also known as Make Them Die Slowly, is a 1981 Italian exploitation film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Upon its release, the film made claims to being "The most violent film ever made"...
(1981)) and Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...
's spaghetti-horror masterpiece, E tu vivrai nel terrore (aka The Beyond) (1981) as well as Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest and dealing with indigenous tribes, it was cast mostly with United States actors and filmed in English to achieve wider distribution...
(1980), homegrown American cult favorite, I Drink Your Blood
I Drink Your Blood
I Drink Your Blood is a cult horror film originally released in 1970. The film was written and directed by David E. Durston, produced by Jerry Gross, and starred Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury and Lynn Lowry ....
(1970) (directed by David E. Durston
David E. Durston
David E. Durston is an American screenwriter and film director best known for directing the Charles Manson-inspired cult classic drive-in horror exploitation film, I Drink Your Blood, which was released in 1970....
), director Juan Piquer Simón
Juan Piquer Simón
Juan Piquer Simón was a Spanish film director most well known for directing the cult classic horror exploitation films, Pieces and Slugs: The Movie ....
's Spanish slasher film, Pieces, Cat in the Brain
A Cat in the Brain
Cat in the Brain is a 1990 Italian horror-slasher film written and directed by Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci....
also directed by Italian horror filmmaker, Lucio Fulci, Gone with the Pope
Gone with the Pope
Gone with the Pope is a 1976 independent film written, directed and produced by Italian-American crooner-actor Duke Mitchell that was first released in 2010 by Grindhouse Releasing.-Plot:...
directed by Duke Mitchell
Duke Mitchell
Duke Mitchell was an American film actor, slapstick comedian, crooner and independent film director. Mitchell often performed his nightclub act in and around Palm Springs, California and anointed himself the "King of Palm Springs."-Early life and career:Mitchell was born Dominic Miceli in Farrell,...
as well as An American Hippy in Israel directed by Amos Sefer.
Innis has also written and directed several films and experimental videos. One of Chris Innis' videos was featured in the group show "About TV: Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art" which screened at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park
Barnsdall Art Park
The Barnsdall Art Park has as its mission the presentation, promotion, enrichment, and development of the arts and artists of the Los Angeles region in all its cultural diversity...
(along with fellow experimental video artists Bill Viola
Bill Viola
Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
, Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
, and Nancy Buchanan). Innis was also a past quarter-finalist and semi-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...
Don and Gee Nicholl's Fellowship in Screenwriting Awards, as well as a past semi-finalist in The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project. Innis has also screened at LA Freewaves.
Personal life
Since 2008, Chris Innis has been married to fellow film editor and film distributorFilm distributor
A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing...
Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski
Bob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
. The two editors were first introduced to one another by film director Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...
and met while both were editing the Universal
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
/CBS cult television series executive produced by Raimi, American Gothic
American Gothic (TV series)
American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by Sam Raimi. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996.-Plot:...
The couple married shortly after completing work on The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
. Her sister is well-known Bay Area artist, Cynthia Ona Innis
Cynthia Ona Innis
Cynthia Ona Innis and raised in San Diego, California is an American painter, sculptor and visual artist based out of Oakland, California. Her work has been called, "sensual," "organic" and "science fiction-y" where, "a futuristic heaven-meets-hell." Innis graduated with a B.A. from the...
, who has also served as production designer on some of Innis' films.
Film & music editor
- JFKJFK (film)JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
(1991) Apprentice Editor (Team received Academy Award/BAFTA/ACE "Best Editing") - Indecent ProposalIndecent ProposalIndecent Proposal is a 1993 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard. It was directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, and Woody Harrelson.-Plot:...
(1993) Apprentice Editor - Dead Beat (1994) First Assistant Editor
- The Quick and the Dead (1995) First Assistant Editor
- American GothicAmerican Gothic (TV series)American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by Sam Raimi. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996.-Plot:...
(1995) TV Pilot Associate Editor - American GothicAmerican Gothic (TV series)American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy and executive produced by Sam Raimi. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996.-Plot:...
(1995–1996) TV Series Editor - G.I. JaneG.I. JaneG.I. Jane is a 1997 American action film directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Largo Entertainment, Scott Free Productions and Caravan Pictures, distributed by Hollywood Pictures and starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen. The film tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo training...
(1997) Associate Editor - The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (aka X-Treme Teens) (1999) Editor
- The Gift (2000) Music Editor
- Spider-ManSpider-Man (film)Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp...
(2002) Music Editor - Straight Into Darkness (2005) Consulting Editor
- Spider-Man 3Spider-Man 3Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man...
(2007) Assistant Editor - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
(2009) Editor (with Bob MurawskiBob MurawskiBob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
)
(Academy Award/BAFTA/ACE "Best Editing," "Best Picture")
Awards and nominations
- The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - Academy Award - Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob MurawskiBob MurawskiBob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - BAFTA - Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob MurawskiBob MurawskiBob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - ACE Eddie Award - Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - The Online Film Critics Association - Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - The Las Vegas Film Critics Association - Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - Boston Society of Film CriticsBoston Society of Film CriticsThe Boston Society of Film Critics is an organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, based publications.The BSFC was formed in 1981 to make "Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the...
- Best Film Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - The International Press Academy's Golden Satellite Award -
Best Film EditingSatellite Award for Best EditingThe Satellite Award for Best Editing is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.- Winners and nominees :The following listing is based on the web postings of the International Press Academy.- 1990s :- 2000s :...
- (shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Won) - International Cinephile Society Award - Best Editing
(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Nominated) - The Broadcast Film Critics Association
Critic's Choice Awards - Best Film Editing(shared with co-editor Bob Murawski) - The Hurt LockerThe Hurt LockerThe Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
- (Nominated) - Hollywood Post Alliance Awards
Outstanding Editing - Feature Film(shared with co-editor Bob MurawskiBob MurawskiBob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
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