Lee Percy(I)

Award-winning editor. Lee originally trained as an actor at the Juilliard School. He finds this background invaluable and considers himself lucky to have edited three films which won top acting Oscars: Hillary Swank for "Boys Don't Cry," Jeremy Irons for "Reversal of Fortune," and William Hurt for "Kiss of the Spiderwoman," Percy also edited "Maria Full of Grace," for which Catalina Sandino Moreno was nominated as best actress. He edited several movies for HBO Films and received Emmy nominations for two them: "Grey Gardens," with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore and "Taking Chance," with Kevin Bacon. Percy took home the Emmy for the latter. All three of the actors won multiple honors. Percy was also recognized by his peers when he received an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award (by editors for editors) for Grey Gardens. He was nominated for "Taking Chance" at the same time. He won his first Eddie for HBO's "Against the Wall," one of several projects he did with the late John Frankenheimer. Percy was also nominated for the HBO film "Mrs. Harris" with Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley. Percy has worked with director Barbet Schroeder on such films as "Before and After" with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, "Kiss of Death" with Nicolas Cage and Samuel Jackson, "Single White Female," with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Lee, as well as "Reversal of Fortune" which starred Glenn Close with Irons. Percy's other credits include Henry Bean's "The Believer," winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, as well as films with Harold Ramis, Kathryn Bigelow and Jesse Nelson. Currently hard at work preparing to direct several features Lee looks forward to making Dreaming American as his first.