Sally Menke

Sally Menke
Born
Sally JoAnne Menke

(1953-12-17)December 17, 1953
DiedSeptember 27, 2010(2010-09-27) (aged 56)
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1980–2010
Spouse
(m. 1986)
Children2

Sally JoAnne Menke (December 17, 1953 – September 27, 2010) was an American film editor, who worked in cinema and television.[1][2] Over the span of her 30-year career in film, she accumulated more than 20 feature film credits.

She had a long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino, and edited all of his films until her death in 2010. Menke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds. She also received three British Academy Film Award nominations for her work on Tarantino's Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds.

She was nominated 25 times for several different awards, and won 12 in her thirty-year career.

  1. ^ "Sally Menke, Editor, Weds Aldo L. Parisot". The New York Times. August 10, 1986. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  2. ^ "Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, found dead near Griffith Park". Los Angeles Times. September 28, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.