Pietro Scalia won the Best Film Editing award 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.
12 Facts About Pietro Scalia
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Pietro Scalia was born in Catania, Sicily, and later emigrated to Aarau, Switzerland as a child with his parents.
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Pietro Scalia spent two years at the University at Albany, The State University of New York, after which he was accepted as an undergraduate at UCLA.
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Pietro Scalia began as an editor on Andrei Konchalovsky's Shy People.
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Pietro Scalia got a contact through the sister of one of the assistant editors.
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Pietro Scalia worked on such films as Wall Street and Talk Radio.
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Pietro Scalia edited a sequel to the movie, Hannibal ten years later.
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Pietro Scalia worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha and Stealing Beauty, as well as with Sam Raimi on The Quick and the Dead.
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Pietro Scalia earned two more Academy Award nominations: first in 1997 for Good Will Hunting and second in 2000 for Gladiator, and a second Academy Award for director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.
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Pietro Scalia 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.
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Pietro Scalia 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.
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In May 2017, Pietro Scalia replaced editor Chris Dickens on the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.