Lee Percy

Lee Percy is an American film editor. At the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, he received two Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie nominations for editing the 2009 television films Taking Chance and Grey Gardens, winning for the former.
A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Percy initially trained to be an actor at Juilliard before switching focus to editing.
Director Kimberly Peirce stated that Percy's editing provided the constructive structuring of the film Boys Don't Cry via deciding which scenes to keep or cut, allowing her to see which would work in the final version.
Percy made his directorial debut on the short film Dreaming American.
Percy has been a Creative Adviser at the Sundance Directors Lab as well as a mentor at the IFP.

Select filmography

Year	Film	Director	Role
1980	Scared to Death	William Malone	Camera operator

Documentaries

Year	Film	Director
1981	The Killing of America

TV movies

Year	Film	Director	Role
2006	Bernard and Doris	Bob Balaban	Additional editor
2009	Into the Storm	Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Additional editor
2009	A Dog Year	George LaVoo	Additional editor
2011	Cinema Verite	Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini	Additional editor

TV series

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2013	Magic City	Supervising producer	8 episodes