Peter Zinner was an Austrian-American film editor.
11 Facts About Peter Zinner
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Peter Zinner was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied music there in the Theresianum and at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
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In 1943, Peter Zinner became an apprentice film editor at the 20th Century Fox Studios.
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Peter Zinner became an assistant sound-effects editor at Universal Studios in 1947.
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Peter Zinner had wanted to move into film editing, and following his music-editing work with producer-director Richard Brooks on Lord Jim, Brooks asked him to edit The Professionals and In Cold Blood.
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Peter Zinner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing three times, for his work on The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, and An Officer and a Gentleman {1982; directed by Taylor Hackford}.
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Peter Zinner won the Oscar, a BAFTA, and an Eddie for The Deer Hunter.
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Peter Zinner was nominated four times for Emmy Awards, and won for the miniseries War and Remembrance and for Citizen Cohn.
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Peter Zinner's many other film editing credits include Blake Edwards' Gunn, Foolin' Around, Darling Lili, Dirty Pictures, Crazy Joe, Mahogany, A Star is Born and Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture.
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Peter Zinner had married his wife Christa, a German-born photographer and artist, in 1959.
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Peter Zinner died on November 13,2007, aged 88, in Santa Monica, California, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.