Pietro Scalia's outstanding work as an editor has brought him four Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing. He won two, receiving the Oscar® for his editing of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001) and for Oliver Stone's JFK (1991).

Pietro Scalia, A.C.E., was born in Sicily, Italy, in 1960. He immigrated to Switzerland with his parents and later moved from Switzerland to the United States to pursue a filmmaking education. He received his MFA in Film and Theater Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985.

Mr. Scalia began his career as an assistant editor for Oliver Stone on Wall Street (1987) and Talk Radio (1988). He went on to contribute as an associate editor on Born on the Fourth of July (1989), starring Tom Cruise, and as an additional editor on The Doors (1991), which starred Val Kilmer.

Mr. Scalia won the Academy Award, ACE Eddie Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award in 1992 for editing Oliver Stone's JFK, which starred Kevin Costner. In 1998, he received Academy Award and ACE Eddie Award nominations for his work on Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997), which starred Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Minnie Driver.

His work on Gladiator (2000), which was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Russell Crowe, was also honored with his second ACE and BAFTA Awards as well as a third Academy Award nomination for achievement in film editing.

In 2001, Mr. Scalia was invited to become a member of the prestigious American Cinema Editors, and, in 2002, he received his second Academy Award for his work on Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, based on the bestselling book by Mark Bowden. A tour de force combat film, Black Hawk Down also earned him his third ACE Eddie Award for best edited dramatic feature film as well as a third BAFTA nomination.

When he accepted his Oscar® for Black Hawk Down, Mr. Scalia said: "Editors are like alchemists; we play with magic and we are privileged to witness small miracles of creation when we combine the talents and contributions from everyone involved in the process of making movies."

Black Hawk Down represents Pietro Scalia's fourth film collaboration with director Ridley Scott, for whom he also edited Hannibal (2001), starring Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore, and G.I. Jane (1997), starring Demi Moore.

Mr. Scalia has also edited two films for Bernardo Bertolucci: Little Buddha (1993), starring Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, and Bridget Fonda, and Stealing Beauty (1996), starring Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, and Joseph Fiennes.

Other motion pictures Mr. Scalia has edited include director Sam Raimi's The Quick and The Dead (1995), starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Playing By Heart for director Willard Carroll in 1998.

This summer Mr. Scalia completed the editing of Levity for Ed Solomon's directorial debut.