Film editor Carol Littleton is set to be honored at the upcoming 26th edition of the Camerimage’s International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography. She’ll receive the Camerimage Award for an Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Best known for her Oscar-nominated work on “E.T.,” Littleton’s other credits include “Body Heat,” “The Big Chill,” and “Silverado.” She won an Emmy for editing the 1999 TV film “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
“As a viewer, Carol Littleton above all appreciates simplicity, something which for some reason has become a hostile idea for countless contemporary filmmakers. As an editor, she simply wants to tell worthwhile stories, both with images and sounds, and with emotions and reflections, therefore she engages herself completely in each story, plot, and character she works with,” said Camerimage in a statement.
“A Walk in the Woods,” “Country Strong,” and “The Other Boleyn Girl” are among Littleton’s more recent credits.
This year’s fest runs from November 10-17 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
According to research from Dr. Martha Lauzen and the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, 80 percent of the top-grossing 250 films of 2017 had no women editors.
Anne Bauchens made history as the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for editing for 1934’s “Cleopatra.” She later became the first woman to ever win the award, taking home the honor for 1940’s “North West Mounted Police.”