Role Film Editor Name Marcia Lucas | Years active 1968–1983 Occupation Film editor | |
Full Name Marcia Lou Griffin Education University of Southern California Children Amanda Lucas, Amy Rodrigues Similar People | ||
Other names Marcia Lucas Rodrigues | ||
Who is marcia lucas and why the hell should you care
Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American film editor who was most well known for her work on the early 1970s films of Martin Scorsese. Lucas won the Academy Award for Best Editing in 1977 for Star Wars, which was written and directed by her first husband, George Lucas.
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- Who is marcia lucas and why the hell should you care
- Star Wars Wins Film Editing 1978 Oscars
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
- Filmography
- References
Star Wars Wins Film Editing: 1978 Oscars
Early life
Lucas was born in Modesto, California, but grew up in North Hollywood, California.
Career
Lucas began working as an editor in 1964, mostly as an assistant editor on commercials, eventually working her way up to assistant editor to renowned editor Walter Murch.
In 1974, Lucas and Verna Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for their work on American Graffiti, which was directed by George Lucas. In 1975, she edited the Martin Scorsese film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and was supervising film editor on Scorsese's 1976 film, Taxi Driver. She received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing with Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro for her work on Taxi Driver.
Lucas won the 1977 Academy Award for Film Editing with Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch for her work editing Star Wars. She was a supervising editor on Martin Scorsese's 1977 film, New York, New York.. Her last editing credit was as one of the three editors of the third film in the original Star Wars trilogy Return of the Jedi, directed by Richard Marquand and released in 1983. Lucas' last film credit was as producer of 1996's No Easy Way.
Lucas was interviewed in Peter Biskind's book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.
In an interview with Mark Hamill, Hamill cited Lucas for her contributions to Star Wars. In Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas, filmmaker John Milius described Lucas' contributions to Milius' own films and those of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese, calling her one of the best editors he knew.
Personal life
She met George Lucas while he was attending film school at the University of Southern California, and they were married from 1969 to 1983. They adopted one daughter, Amanda Lucas, who was born in 1981.
Marcia later married Tom Rodrigues, a stained glass artist who worked as a production manager at Skywalker Ranch from 1980 to 1983. In 1985, the couple had a daughter, Amy Rodrigues. Lucas and Rodrigues divorced in 1993.