American feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer
Craig McKay |
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Occupation | Film editor |
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Craig McKay (born in New York's Hudson Valley) is an American feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he has edited more than forty films including Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Cop Land and Maid in Manhattan.
His directing credits include Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories for PBS and HBO's The Red Shoes, written by John Guare. Story consultant credits include Bravo's Haiti: Dreams of Democracy, Academy Award-nominated Mandela, and PBS's award-winning Witness: Voices from the Holocaust.
McKay has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute Filmmaker's Lab and is also an executive producer on the award-winning feature-length documentary A Normal Life.
He is a member of the DGA, AMPAS, WGAE and Local 700. McKay has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[1]
Selected filmography
Sound department Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | Sound | Uncredited |
1975 | Night Moves | Arthur Penn | Sound editor | |
Thanks Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
1995 | Heavy | James Mangold | Very special thanks | First collaboration with James Mangold |
1996 | Manny & Lo | Lisa Krueger | Special thanks | |
Domain of the Sense | | Thanks | |
1997 | A Brother's Kiss | Seth Zvi Rosenfeld | |
1998 | Smoke Signals | Chris Eyre | |
1999 | The Opportunists | Myles Connell | |
2015 | The Networker | John A. Gallagher | Special thanks | Second collaboration with John A. Gallagher |
Documentaries
Editor Year | Film | Director |
2010 | Babies | Thomas Balmès |
2013 | Tricked | |
TV documentaries
Producer Year | Film | Director | Credit |
1988 | Haiti Dreams of Democracy | | Co-producer |
2011 | A Game of Honor | Peter Radovich | Associate producer |
TV movies
Director Year | Film | Notes |
1994 | Bubbe Meises: Bubbe Stories | Television special |
1997 | Subway Stories | "The Red Shoes" segment |
TV series
Editor Year | Title | Notes |
1978 | Holocaust | 2 episodes |
1985 | Doubletake |
1987 | Trying Times |
Editorial department Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1987 | Trying Times | Post-production consultant | 2 episodes |
TV specials
Academy Award Nominations
Other Awards and Nominations
- 1978 – Holocaust (miniseries) (won) Emmy Awards Emmy Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series (with co-editors Stephen A. Rotter, Robert M. Reitano, Alan Heim and Brian Smedley-Aston)
- 1979 – Holocaust (miniseries) (won) American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series
- 1982 – Reds (nominated) American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Best Edited Feature Film (with co-editor Dede Allen)
- 1992 – The Silence of the Lambs (nominated) BAFTA Film Award - Best Editing
- 1992 – The Silence of the Lambs (nominated) American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Best Edited Feature Film
- 2012 – The Silence of the Lambs was listed as the 26th best-edited film of all time in a survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.[2]
References
- ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
- ^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.
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