Frank Santillo

American film editor (1912–1978)

Frank Santillo

Born| (1912-10-08)October 8, 1912

Dawson, New Mexico

Died| June 30, 1978(1978-06-30) (aged 65)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation| Film editor

Frank Santillo (October 8, 1912 – June 30, 1978) was an American film editor who won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Grand Prix in 1966. He was an associate of Slavko Vorkapich and Peter Ballbusch at MGM during the 1930s and 1940s and was known for his creative montage work.[1] He was under contract as an editor at MGM from 1956 to 1966.[2] He worked with director Sam Peckinpah on three films, and was interviewed at length about the production of Ride the High Country (1962).[3]

He died in his sleep in Los Angeles.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Obituaries". Variety. July 12, 1978. p. 79.
2. ^ Finler, Joel W. (2003). The Hollywood Story (Second ed.). Mandarin. p. 231. ISBN 0-7493-0637-8. OCLC 921016078.
3. ^ Simmons, Garner (2004). Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 52\. ISBN 9781617744495. In addition to Ride the High Country, Santillo edited The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and Junior Bonner (1972).

## Further reading[edit]

* Hoggan, Michael (2021). The Art and Craft of Motion Picture Editing (2 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781000485264. Hoggan notes Santillo's editing of The Outrage (1964) as an example of presenting a single event in a film using the differing perspectives of witnesses; the film was an adaptation of the earlier film Rashomon (1950).

## External links[edit]

* Frank Santillo at IMDb

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

1934–1950|

* Conrad A. Nervig – Eskimo (1934)
* Ralph Dawson \- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
* Ralph Dawson \- Anthony Adverse (1936)
* Gene Havlick and Gene Milford \- Lost Horizon (1937)
* Ralph Dawson \- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
* Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom \- Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Anne Bauchens \- North West Mounted Police (1940)
* William Holmes \- Sergeant York (1941)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
* George Amy \- Air Force (1943)
* Barbara McLean \- Wilson (1944)
* Robert J. Kern \- National Velvet (1945)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
* Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish \- Body and Soul (1947)
* Paul Weatherwax \- The Naked City (1948)
* Harry W. Gerstad \- Champion (1949)
* Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig \- King Solomon's Mines (1950)

1951–1975|

* William Hornbeck \- A Place in the Sun (1951)
* Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad \- High Noon (1952)
* William Lyon \- From Here to Eternity (1953)
* Gene Milford \- On the Waterfront (1954)
* Charles Nelson and William Lyon \- Picnic (1955)
* Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax \- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
* Peter Taylor \- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* Adrienne Fazan \- Gigi (1958)
* Ralph E. Winters and John Dunning \- Ben-Hur (1959)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Apartment (1960)
* Thomas Stanford \- West Side Story (1961)
* Anne V. Coates \- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Harold F. Kress \- How the West Was Won (1963)
* Cotton Warburton \- Mary Poppins (1964)
* William Reynolds \- The Sound of Music (1965)
* Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, and Frank Santillo \- Grand Prix (1966)
* Hal Ashby \- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
* Frank P. Keller \- Bullitt (1968)
* Françoise Bonnot \- Z (1969)
* Hugh S. Fowler \- Patton (1970)
* Gerald B. Greenberg \- The French Connection (1971)
* David Bretherton \- Cabaret (1972)
* William Reynolds \- The Sting (1973)
* Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress \- The Towering Inferno (1974)
* Verna Fields \- Jaws (1975)

1976–2000|

* Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad \- Rocky (1976)
* Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew \- Star Wars (1977)
* Peter Zinner \- The Deer Hunter (1978)
* Alan Heim \- All That Jazz (1979)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- Raging Bull (1980)
* Michael Kahn \- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* John Bloom \- Gandhi (1982)
* Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf \- The Right Stuff (1983)
* Jim Clark \- The Killing Fields (1984)
* Thom Noble \- Witness (1985)
* Claire Simpson \- Platoon (1986)
* Gabriella Cristiani \- The Last Emperor (1987)
* Arthur Schmidt \- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
* David Brenner and Joe Hutshing \- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
* Neil Travis \- Dances with Wolves (1990)
* Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia \- JFK (1991)
* Joel Cox \- Unforgiven (1992)
* Michael Kahn \- Schindler's List (1993)
* Arthur Schmidt \- Forrest Gump (1994)
* Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley \- Apollo 13 (1995)
* Walter Murch \- The English Patient (1996)
* Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris \- Titanic (1997)
* Michael Kahn \- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* Zach Staenberg \- The Matrix (1999)
* Stephen Mirrione \- Traffic (2000)

2001–present|

* Pietro Scalia \- Black Hawk Down (2001)
* Martin Walsh \- Chicago (2002)
* Jamie Selkirk \- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- The Aviator (2004)
* Hughes Winborne \- Crash (2005)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- The Departed (2006)
* Christopher Rouse \- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
* Chris Dickens \- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
* Chris Innis and Bob Murawski \- The Hurt Locker (2009)
* Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall \- The Social Network (2010)
* Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall \- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
* William Goldenberg \- Argo (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger \- Gravity (2013)
* Tom Cross \- Whiplash (2014)
* Margaret Sixel \- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
* John Gilbert \- Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
* Lee Smith \- Dunkirk (2017)
* John Ottman \- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
* Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland \- Ford v Ferrari (2019)
* Mikkel E. G. Nielsen \- Sound of Metal (2020/21)
* Joe Walker \- Dune (2021)
* Paul Rogers \- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

* Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

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