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Sam O'Steen
Highest Rated: 100% Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Lowest Rated: 17% Sparkle (1976)
Birthday: Nov 6, 1923
Birthplace: St. Francis, Arkansas, USA
Arkansas-born and Burbank-raised Sam O'Steen began his career as an assistant editor in 1956 and, from the early 1960s on, cut several superbly crafted Hollywood productions. He garnered his first Oscar nomination for his initial collaboration with director Mike Nichols, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966). Over the next three decades, the pair enjoyed a long association that encompassed such groundbreaking films as "The Graduate" (1967) and "Carnal Knowledge" (1971) to more popular movies like "Silkwood" (1983) and "Working Girl" (1988). Among his other important credits are "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "Chinatown" (1974).
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70% | 64% | Night Falls on Manhattan | Film Editing | $9.9M | 1996 |
| 62% | 43% | Wolf | Film Editing | $65.0M | 1994 |
| 82% | 75% | A Dry White Season | Film Editor | $3.3M | 1989 |
| 77% | 64% | Frantic | Film Editing | $17.5M | 1988 |
| 83% | 67% | Working Girl | Film Editing | $62.2M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kids Don't Tell | Director | - | 1985 |
| 24% | 36% | Amityville II: The Possession | Film Editing | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Best Little Girl in the World | Director | - | 1981 |
| 17% | 90% | Sparkle | Director | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rosemary's Baby II | Director | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Risk | Director | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby | Director | - | 1976 |
| 80% | 67% | Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | Director | - | 1975 |
| 98% | 93% | Chinatown | Film Editing | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Love You... Goodbye | Director | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Brand New Life | Director | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | Portnoy's Complaint | Film Editing | - | 1972 |
| 88% | 72% | Carnal Knowledge | Film Editing | $33.7K | 1971 |
| 81% | 76% | Catch-22 | Film Editing | - | 1970 |
| 96% | 87% | Rosemary's Baby | Film Editing | - | 1968 |
| 86% | 90% | The Graduate | Film Editing | $285.8K | 1967 |
| 100% | 95% | Cool Hand Luke | Film Editing | - | 1967 |
| 96% | 90% | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Film Editing | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Marriage on the Rocks | Film Editing | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Youngblood Hawke | Film Editing | - | 1964 |