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Samuel Alexander "Sam" O'Steen (November 6, 1923 – October 11, 2000) was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994. Among the notable films that O'Steen edited were ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' (directed by Mike Nichols, 1966), ''Cool Hand Luke'' (directed by Stuart Rosenberg, 1967), ''The Graduate'' (directed by Mike Nichols, 1967), ''Rosemary's Baby'' (directed by Roman Polanski, 1968), and ''Chinatown'' (directed by Roman Polanski, 1974).〔 Note that this article's statement that O'Steen edited nine of Nichols' films is incorrect.〕 ==Life and career== O'Steen was born in Paragould, Arkansas. As a child in Burbank, California, he would try to make it onto the Warner Bros. lot hoping that it could be an entree to work in the editing room. He was finally able to secure a position as an assistant editor in 1956, when he became George Tomasini's assistant editor on Alfred Hitchcock's 1957 film ''The Wrong Man''.〔 As was typical at the time, he served as an assistant editor at Warner Brothers for eight years; his first credit as editor was on ''Youngblood Hawke'' (1964), which was directed by Delmer Daves. Within a year, O'Steen had become the editor on Mike Nichols' first film as a director, ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''. O'Steen was Nichols' principal editor for nearly thirty years, during which he edited twelve of Nichols' films; their last film together was ''Wolf'' (1994). O'Steen had been working as a principal editor for only three years when he edited Nichols' second film, ''The Graduate'', but Patrick J. Sauer considers this film to be the epitome of O'Steen's editing:〔Sauer, Patrick J. (2000). (Sam O'Steen profile ) in Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (editors), ''International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4'' (St. James Press); ISBN 978-1-55862-449-8. Online version of article retrieved February 13, 2008.〕 In his volume from the ''History of American Cinema'' series, Paul Monaco emphasizes the innovative aspects of the editing of ''The Graduate'':〔Monaco, Paul (2003). ''History of the American Cinema Volume 8: The Sixties'', Charles Harpole, general editor (University of California Press), p. 97; ISBN 978-0-520-23804-6.〕 O'Steen directed seven films for television in the 1970s and 1980s, most notably ''Queen of the Stardust Ballroom'' (1975) and ''Kids Don't Tell'' (1985). He also directed one feature film ''Sparkle'' (1976). His editing of ''The Graduate'' (1967) was honored by a BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and he was nominated for this award again for ''Chinatown'' (1974). He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' (1966), ''Chinatown'' (1974), and ''Silkwood'' (directed by Mike Nichols, 1983). In 1976, O'Steen won the "Most Outstanding Television Director" award from the Directors Guild of America (DGA). His film ''Queen of the Stardust Ballroom'' won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement Award in the category "Movies for Television and Mini-Series". O'Steen was also nominated for an Emmy award for "Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy" for his work on ''Queen of the Stardust Ballroom''. O'Steen was married twice, and had four daughters. O'Steen's memoir of his editing career, ''Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America's Favorite Movies'',〔 was published in 2001, shortly after O'Steen's death, by his second wife Bobbie O'Steen (née Meyer).〔 Bobbie Meyer graduated in 1974 from the program.〕 The book is written mostly as a transcript of O'Steen's responses to questions posed by Bobbie O'Steen, with sidebars about individual films and filmmakers. Ray Zone has characterized it as "one of the very best anecdotal histories of filmmaking in print."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam O'Steen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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