Academy-Award winning film editor Chris Innis, ACE, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in film studies, and received an MFA in live action filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the creative arts school founded by Walt Disney. Innis won the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (ACE), and ...
Los Angeles, California, USA: Freelance film editor [July 2013]
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Worked her way up as a teenage movie theater cashier and popcorn salesgirl at UA, Mann's and Landmark theaters up through the Hollywood rank and file.
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Her father Don Innis is an architect who designed the San Diego embarcadero, the San Diego Broadway pier, and one of the terminals at San Diego's Lindbergh International Airport, and is a pioneer of the idea of a "floating airport," in San Diego, California.
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Her husband is editor Bob Murawski (2008-present). They have been a couple since 1997, after they were first introduced to each other by film director, Sam Raimi, on the TV series American Gothic (1995), where the two worked as editors. Both have worked on various Sam Raimi projects (but not always the same ones), and have since worked together on Raimi's The Gift (2000) and Marvel/Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man (2002) films. Innis and Murawski also won Academy Awards in 2010 for their editing on the dramatic Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker (2008), which also won the "Best Picture" Oscar. They have collaborated on various Grindhouse Releasing and Box Office Spectaculars films (both companies distribute cult films). Grindhouse Releasing was founded by Bob Murawski and the late Sage Stallone.
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Prior to winning an Oscar, Chris Innis was an associate editor to fellow Academy Award-winning editor, Pietro Scalia (1991-1996).
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Graduated from CalArts film school (MFA), and UC Berkeley (BA) as a film major.