Lee Percy

Lee Percy
Born (1963-02-10) February 10, 1963 (age 61)
Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
EducationJuilliard School
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1980–present

Lee Percy (born February 10, 1963) is an American film editor. At the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, he received two Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie nominations for editing the 2009 television films Taking Chance and Grey Gardens, winning for the former.[1]

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Percy initially trained to be an actor at Juilliard before switching focus to editing.[2]

Director Kimberly Peirce 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.[3]

Percy made his directorial debut on the short film Dreaming American.[4]

Percy has been a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Directors Lab as well as a mentor at the IFP.

  1. ^ "Lee Percy - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  2. ^ Lee Percy
  3. ^ Dannenbaum, Jed; Hodge, Carroll; Mayer, Doe (2010-06-15). Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to the Art of Making Inspired Movies and Television. ISBN 9781451603606.
  4. ^ Lee Percy to Make Directorial Debut with DREAMING AMERICAN Short Film