George Amy
American film editor (1903–1986)
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| Born | George Joseph Amy October 15, 1903 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 18, 1986(1986-12-18) (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film editor |
| Years active | 1920s–1950s |
George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) was an American film editor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started his career at the age of 17, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace.
He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Hawks' Air Force (1943).[1] He received Oscar nominations for Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and Raoul Walsh's fanciful war film Objective, Burma! in 1945. Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features (including She Had to Say Yes) on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s, he turned to editing and directing for television.
Selected filmography
- Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)
- Rainbow Riley (1926)
- The Brown Derby (1926)
- The Wright Idea (1928)
- Those Who Dance (1930)
- The Ruling Voice (1931)
- Dr. X (1932)
- Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- She Had to Say Yes (1933) (also co-director)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- Lady Killer (1933)
- Wonder Bar (1934)
- Here Comes the Navy (1934)
- He Was Her Man (1934)
- Broadway Gondolier (1935)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
- Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
- Mountain Justice (1937)
- Kid Galahad (1937)
- Varsity Show (1937)
- Hollywood Hotel (1938)
- Garden of the Moon (1938)
- Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
- Kid Nightingale (1939)
- Dodge City (1939)
- The Sea Hawk (1939)
- Gambling on the High Seas (1940) (also director)
- Granny Get Your Gun (1940) (also director)
- Virginia City (1940)
- The Letter (1940)
- The Santa Fe Trail (1940)
- The Sea Wolf (1941)
- Dive Bomber (1941)
- Captains of the Clouds (1942)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Air Force (1943)
- Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
- This Is the Army (1943)
- Uncertain Glory (1944)
- Objective, Burma! (1945)
- Confidential Agent (1945)
- Three Strangers (1946)
- Cinderella Jones (1946)
- Life with Father (1947)
- Romance on the High Seas (1948) (also assoc. producer)
- Flamingo Road (1949)
- My Dream Is Yours (1949)
- Clash by Night (1952)
- A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
References
- ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
External links
- George Amy at IMDb
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- Conrad A. Nervig (1934)
- Ralph Dawson (1935)
- Ralph Dawson (1936)
- Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
- Ralph Dawson (1938)
- Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
- Anne Bauchens (1940)
- William Holmes (1941)
- Daniel Mandell (1942)
- George Amy (1943)
- Barbara McLean (1944)
- Robert J. Kern (1945)
- Daniel Mandell (1946)
- Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
- Paul Weatherwax (1948)
- Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
- Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
- William Hornbeck (1951)
- Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952)
- William Lyon (1953)
- Gene Milford (1954)
- Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955)
- Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956)
- Peter Taylor (1957)
- Adrienne Fazan (1958)
- Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959)
- Daniel Mandell (1960)
- Thomas Stanford (1961)
- Anne V. Coates (1962)
- Harold F. Kress (1963)
- Cotton Warburton (1964)
- William Reynolds (1965)
- Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966)
- Hal Ashby (1967)
- Frank P. Keller (1968)
- Françoise Bonnot (1969)
- Hugh S. Fowler (1970)
- Gerald B. Greenberg (1971)
- David Bretherton (1972)
- William Reynolds (1973)
- Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974)
- Verna Fields (1975)
- Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976)
- Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
- Peter Zinner (1978)
- Alan Heim (1979)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
- Michael Kahn (1981)
- John Bloom (1982)
- Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
- Jim Clark (1984)
- Thom Noble (1985)
- Claire Simpson (1986)
- Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
- Arthur Schmidt (1988)
- David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
- Neil Travis (1990)
- Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
- Joel Cox (1992)
- Michael Kahn (1993)
- Arthur Schmidt (1994)
- Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995)
- Walter Murch (1996)
- Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
- Michael Kahn (1998)
- Zach Staenberg (1999)
- Stephen Mirrione (2000)
- Pietro Scalia (2001)
- Martin Walsh (2002)
- Jamie Selkirk (2003)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2004)
- Hughes Winborne (2005)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2006)
- Christopher Rouse (2007)
- Chris Dickens (2008)
- Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011)
- William Goldenberg (2012)
- Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
- Tom Cross (2014)
- Margaret Sixel (2015)
- John Gilbert (2016)
- Lee Smith (2017)
- John Ottman (2018)
- Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
- Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
- Joe Walker (2021)
- Paul Rogers (2022)
- Jennifer Lame (2023)
- Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999
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