Lee Percy

Lee Percy (born February 10, 1953) 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]

Lee Percy
Born	(1953-02-10) February 10, 1953 (age 72) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Juilliard School
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1980–present

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.

Select filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1980	Shogun Assassin	Kenji Misumi Robert Houston
1982	They Call Me Bruce?	Elliott Hong
1985	Re-Animator	Stuart Gordon	First collaboration with Stuart Gordon
1986	Troll	John Carl Buechler
	From Beyond	Stuart Gordon	Second collaboration with Stuart Gordon
	Dolls		Third collaboration with Stuart Gordon
1987	Slam Dance	Wayne Wang	First collaboration with Wayne Wang
1988	The Stick	Darrell Roodt	Credited as Lee Edward Percy
	Checking Out	David Leland
1990	Blue Steel	Kathryn Bigelow
	Reversal of Fortune	Barbet Schroeder	First collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1991	Year of the Gun	John Frankenheimer
1992	Single White Female	Barbet Schroeder	Second collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1994	Corrina, Corrina	Jessie Nelson
1995	Kiss of Death	Barbet Schroeder	Third collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1996	Before and After		Fourth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
1998	Desperate Measures		Fifth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
	54	Mark Christopher
1999	Boys Don't Cry	Kimberly Peirce	First collaboration with Kimberly Peirce
2001	The Believer	Henry Bean	First collaboration with Henry Bean
	Lift	DeMane Davis Khari Streeter
	The Center of the World	Wayne Wang	Second collaboration with Wayne Wang
	Bill's Gun Shop	Dean Hyers
2002	Murder by Numbers	Barbet Schroeder	Sixth collaboration with Barbet Schroeder
2003	Just Another Story	GQ
2004	Maria Full of Grace	Joshua Marston
	A Home at the End of the World	Michael Mayer
	A Love Song for Bobby Long	Shainee Gabel
2005	The Ice Harvest	Harold Ramis
2007	Wind Chill	Gregory Jacobs
	Noise	Henry Bean	Second collaboration with Henry Bean
2009	Frank the Rat	James Cozza
	Into Temptation	Patrick Coyle
	Amelia	Mira Nair
2010	As Good as Dead	Jonathan Mossek
2011	Thin Ice	Jill Sprecher
2012	Disconnect	Henry-Alex Rubin
2013	Carrie	Kimberly Peirce	Second collaboration with Kimberly Peirce
2014	Dukhtar	Afia Nathaniel
2015	Angelica	Mitchell Lichtenstein
	Touched with Fire	Paul Dalio
2016	Snowden	Oliver Stone
2017	The Mountain Between Us	Hany Abu-Assad
2018	The Kindergarten Teacher	Sara Colangelo
	Mapplethorpe	Ondi Timoner
	Skin	Guy Nattiv
2020	The Half of It	Alice Wu
2021	Charming the Hearts of Men	S.E. DeRose
2023	The Burial	Maggie Betts

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1981	Roar	Noel Marshall	Assistant editor
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Héctor Babenco	Additional editor
1990	Naked Tango	Leonard Schrader
2009	Archie's Final Project	David Lee Miller	Consulting editor
2010	Salt	Phillip Noyce	Additional editor
2012	What Maisie Knew	Scott McGehee David Siegel		Credited as Lee Edward Percy
2016	C Street	Peter James Iengo	Consulting editor
2021	Italian Studies	Adam Leon	Additional editor
	Charming the Hearts of Men	S.E. DeRose	Editor
2022	Nanny	Nikyatu Jusu	Editing consultant

Camera and electrical department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1980	Scared to Death	William Malone	Camera operator

Thanks

Year	Film	Director	Role
2015	The Witch	Robert Eggers	The director wishes to thank
	The Fits	Anna Rose Holmer	Special thanks
2019	The Kid	Vincent D'Onofrio	Special thanks to
2020	Juvie	George LaVoo	Special thanks

Documentaries

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1981	The Killing of America	Leonard Schrader Sheldon Renan

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1994	Against the Wall	John Frankenheimer
2005	Mrs. Harris	Phyllis Nagy
2009	Taking Chance	Ross Katz
	Grey Gardens	Michael Sucsy

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role
2006	Bernard and Doris	Bob Balaban	Additional editor
2009	Into the Storm	Thaddeus O'Sullivan
	A Dog Year	George LaVoo
2011	Cinema Verite	Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini

TV series

Producer

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2013	Magic City	Supervising producer	8 episodes