Pietro Scalia
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Though he's cut celluloid for some of the best in the business, chances
are many film lovers wouldn't even recognize the name Pietro Scalia in
a lineup of Hollywood's best film editors. Born in Sicily in 1960,
Scalia resided in Switzerland before heading to Los Angeles to continue
his education. After receiving his M.F.A. in Film and Theater Arts from
U.C.L.A. in 1985, Scalia began his career as an assistant editor to
Oliver Stone on such features as Wall Street (1987) and Talk Radio (1988). Later coming into his
own with such films as JFK (1991) (for which he received a Best Editing
Oscar) and Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995), Scalia continued to work on such
high-profile films as Stealing Beauty (1996) and G.I. Jane (1997). Scalia also received Best
Editor Oscar nominations for Good Will Hunting (1997) and Gladiator (2000), though he would have
to wait until the following year for his next win at the Oscars, as he
received the Best Editing Award for director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001).
