Pietro Scalia
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Born | Catania, Sicily, Italy | March 17, 1960
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (MFA) |
Pietro Scalia (born March 17, 1960) is an Italian film editor. He won Best Film Editing at the 64th Academy Awards for his work on the film JFK, sharing the award with Joe Hutshing, and at the 74th Academy Awards for Black Hawk Down.
Life and career[edit]
He was born in Catania, Sicily,[1] and later emigrated to Aarau, Switzerland as a child with his parents.[2] There, he attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation, he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education. He spent two years at the University at Albany, The State University of New York, after which he was accepted as an undergraduate at UCLA. The Swiss government's scholarship helped him through five years of UCLA and in 1985 he earned his Master of Fine Arts from the UCLA Film School.[3]
After his MFA, a couple of short films, a screenplay, two video documentaries, and a 16 mm thesis film, he returned to Europe to pursue his desire to become a film director. Shortly afterwards, he returned to United States on a work visa to pursue his career in Hollywood as a film editor. He began as an editor on Andrei Konchalovski's Shy People. Later, he received an assistant editor position working with Oliver Stone. However, it was not easy to get the job. Scalia admired Oliver Stone's work, especially Salvador, so he decided he wanted to work with that director. He got a contact through the sister of one of the assistant editors. Scalia worked on such films as Wall Street (1987) and Talk Radio (1988). He later continued as an associate editor on Born on the Fourth of July and as an additional editor on The Doors.
After five years of working with Oliver Stone, Scalia was finally asked to fully edit a film. It was JFK, for which Scalia and his co-editor, Joe Hutshing, were honored with an Academy Award for Film Editing. Craig McKay was nominated the same year for editing The Silence of the Lambs. Scalia edited a sequel to the movie, Hannibal ten years later. He also received a BAFTA Award and A.C.E. Award for his work.[4]
Pietro Scalia worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha (1993) and Stealing Beauty (1996),[5] as well as with Sam Raimi on The Quick and the Dead (1995). He earned two more Academy Award nominations: first in 1997 for Good Will Hunting and second in 2000 for Gladiator,[6] and a second Academy Award for director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.[7] He also edited G.I. Jane and a pilot episode of a TV series American Gothic in late 1990s.
In the recent years, Scalia edited such movies as Levity (2003) directed by Ed Solomon, a documentary entitled Ashes and Snow, The Great Raid directed by John Dahl, and Memoirs of a Geisha, one of the most publicized movies of 2005, directed by Rob Marshall. Scalia also worked on Hannibal Rising, a movie that tells a story of a teenaged Hannibal and his young sister Mischa Lecter after their parents are killed in World War II. It was directed by Peter Webber and released in 2006. He has a long lasting relationship with Ridley Scott working on movies such as American Gangster in 2007, Body of Lies in 2008 and Robin Hood in 2010. Most recently he worked with director Ridley Scott on The Martian, released in October 2015. In May 2017, Scalia replaced editor Chris Dickens on the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.[8]
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Teresa Sparks and two children, Julian and Maia Scalia.
Filmography[edit]
As film editor:
- 1990 Megaville
- 1991 JFK
- 1992 Jackpot
- 1993 Little Buddha
- 1995 The Quick and the Dead
- 1995 American Gothic (TV pilot, first cut)
- 1996 Stealing Beauty
- 1997 G.I. Jane
- 1997 Good Will Hunting
- 1998 The Big Hit
- 1998 Playing by Heart
- 2000 Gladiator
- 2001 Hannibal
- 2001 Black Hawk Down
- 2003 Levity
- 2003 Masked and Anonymous
- 2005 Ashes and Snow
- 2005 The Great Raid
- 2005 Memoirs of a Geisha
- 2007 American Gangster
- 2007 Hannibal Rising
- 2007 The 11th Hour
- 2008 Body of Lies
- 2009 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
- 2010 Robin Hood
- 2010 Kick-Ass
- 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
- 2012 Prometheus
- 2013 The Counselor
- 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- 2015 Child 44
- 2015 The Sea of Trees
- 2015 The Martian
- 2016 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
- 2017 Alien: Covenant
- 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story
- 2022 Morbius (Also associate producer)
- 2022 Ambulance
- 2022 The Gray Man
- 2023 Ferrari
Awards and accolades[edit]
Oscars and Oscar nominations[edit]
- 1992 – JFK (won w/ co-editor, Joe Hutshing)
- 1998 – Good Will Hunting (nominated)
- 2001 – Gladiator (nominated)
- 2002 – Black Hawk Down (won)
Other[edit]
- 2023 — Vision Award TicinoModa, Locarno Film Festival.[7]
- 2001 — Best Editing (Gladiator), BAFTA.[9]
- 1993 — Best Editing, BAFTA.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Caprara, Fulvia (June 30, 2012). "Pietro Scalia: "Così ho rimontato Hollywood"". La Stampa. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Ferzetti, Fabio (July 28, 2014). "Pietro Scalia, un gladiatore in moviola". Il Messaggero. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Vivarelli, Nick (July 27, 2023). "Oscar-Winning Editor Pietro Scalia to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ "FARE CINEMA: PIETRO SCALIA". La Settima Arte. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Sollazzo, Boris (August 7, 2023). "Locarno: Oscar-Winning Editor Pietro Scalia on the "Existential Crisis" of the Hollywood Strikes, Working With Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone and Michael Mann". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ "Pietro Scalia: Editing Masterclass". BAFTA. December 21, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ a b Solari, Ilaria (August 2, 2023). "Italian actors and directors in the spotlight at Locarno Film Festival 2023". Elle. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ Masters, Kim (June 26, 2017). "'Star Wars' Firing Reveals a Disturbance in the Franchise". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ "Film Editing in 2011 Winner". BAFTA. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
- ^ "Film Editing 1993". BAFTA. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
External links[edit]
- Pietro Scalia at IMDb
- Filmed BAFTA event with Pietro Scala, July 2009