Lee Percy

Lee Percy (born February 10, 1953) is an American film editor. At the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, he received two Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie nominations for editing the 2009 television films Taking Chance and Grey Gardens, winning for the former. A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Percy initially trained to be an actor at Juilliard before switching focus to editing. Director Kimberly Peirce stated that Percy's editing provided the constructive structuring of the film Boys Don't Cry via deciding which scenes to keep or cut, allowing her to see which would work in the final version. Percy made his directorial debut on the short film Dreaming American. Percy has been a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Directors Lab as well as a mentor at the IFP. ()