How Honorary Oscar Winner Carol Littleton Fought to Make Film Editing More Diverse

TheWrap magazine: “I was not happy being sidelined because of nepotism and strict rules, and I was bound and determined it wasn’t going to happen to anybody else,” she says

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Carol Littleton, one of four people who will receive awards from the Motion Picture Academy at Tuesday night’s Governors Awards, is part of an unusual statistic. She’s a film editor, a job that over the course of movie history has been done largely by men, who have been nominated for and won about 86% of all the editing Oscars.

And yet only three people have been named recipients of Honorary Academy Awards for film editing, and all three have been women. Margaret Booth, who began her career with D.W. Griffith and edited well into her 80s, received the first-ever Honorary Oscar for editing in 1977, while Anne V.

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