Leigh Folsom Boyd
| Leigh Folsom Boyd | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States of America (USA) |
| 💼 Occupation | Film editor |
| 📆 Years active | 2001–present |
Leigh Folsom Boyd, also known as Leigh Folsom, is an American film editor,[1] who specializes in action films and superhero movies, editing Marvel films produced by Sony and Disney,[2] including Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Far From Home.[3] She also worked as the editor for the Fast and Furious franchise.
Career
Leigh Folsom started her editing career working as an assistant editor for the TV series Profiler (from 1996 to 2000) and Pacific Blue (from 1996 to 1999). In cinema, her career started in 2004 with the movie Man on Fire, where she also worked as an assistant editor. In 2009, she joined the Fast and Furious franchise working as an associate editor for Fast & Furious. Folsom remained working for the franchise until 2017, rising to the position of head editor.
Movies edited by Folsom have achieved remarkable success, such as the billion-dollar box offices of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Fast and Furious 7 and also nominations by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror for the Best Editing.[4] Folsom has been described as a "big-budget editor"[5] or "one-woman blockbuster editor"[6] due to the long list of blockbusters that she has led as an editor[7] being one of very few women occupying this position in major Hollywood studios. Besides, Metacritic has attributed favorable scores[8] for her works, such as 71 for Spider-Man: No Way Home, 69 for Spider-Man: Far From Home and 67 for Fast and Furious 7.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Justin Lin | $788.7 million (box office). Edited with Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith and Kirk Morri |
| 2015 | Fast and Furious 7 | James Wan | $1.515 billion (box office). Edited with Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith and Kirk Morri |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg | $795.9 million (box office). Edited with Roger Barton |
| 2019 | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Jon Watts | $1.132 billion (box office). Edited with Dan Lebental |
| 2021 | Black Widow | Peyton Reed | $379.8 million (box office), released on streaming and theaters at the same time. Edited with Matthew Schmidt. |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Jon Watts | $1.922 billion (box office). Edited with Dan Lebental |
| 2024 | Madame Web | SJ Clarkson | Upcoming |
Notes
- ↑ Team, Celtalks (2021-05-07). "Leigh Folsom : Biography, Movies, Birthday, Age, Family, Husband, Photos & More » Celtalks". Celtalks. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
- ↑ "Leigh Folsom Boyd - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ Strauss, Bob (2022-01-25). "How 'Don't Look Up' and 'Spider-Man' mix tone and action through editing". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ "Saturn Awards 2016 Nominees Announced". Comicbook.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ "ART OF THE CUT with the editors of "Spider-Man: Far from Home" by Steve Hullfish - ProVideo Coalition". 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
- ↑ Hullfish, Steve (2021-07-29). "Spinning the Web Behind Marvel's "Black Widow"". Frame.io Insider. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
- ↑ Feury, Matt (2021-07-12). "Black Widow". The Rough Cut. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
- ↑ "Leigh Folsom Boyd". www.metacritic.com. 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
External links
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