George Amy

George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) was an American film editor. He started his career aged 17, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace.

George Amy
BornOctober 15, 1903
Brooklyn, New York, United States
DiedDecember 18, 1986
Los Angeles, California, United States
OccupationFilm editor

He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Hawks' Air Force (1943).[1] He received Oscar nominations for Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and Raoul Walsh's fanciful war film Objective, Burma! in 1945. Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features (including She Had to Say Yes) on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s he turned to editing and directing for television.

Selected filmography
gollark: If I wasn't real, how could I be initiating orbital bee strikes against you *right now*?
gollark: Well, I am real, because yes.
gollark: I can't believe you believed it!
gollark: I agree. The code guessing event isn't real.
gollark: Have the fake deadline randomly be 5 to 0 days before the real one.

References
  1. "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
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