Draft:Leigh Folsom Boyd

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Leigh Folsom Boyd
Born
United States of America (USA)
OccupationFilm editor
Years active2001–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 edit

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 got into the Fast and Furious franchise working as an associate editor for Fast & Furious. Folsom remained working for the franchise until 2017, rising there to the position of head editor.

Movies edited by Folsom have some remarkable achievements, such as the billionaire box offices of Spider-Man: No Way Home,Spider-Man: Far From Home, Fast and Furious 7 and also nominations by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror for Best Editing.[4] Folsom has been described as a "big-budget editor"[5] or "one-woman blockbuster editor"[6] due to this noticeable 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 really favorable scores[8] for her works, such a 71 for Spider-Man: No Way Home, 69 for Spider-Man: Far From Home and 67 Fast and Furious 7.

Filmography edit

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 edit

  1. ^ Team, Celtalks (May 7, 2021). "Leigh Folsom : Biography, Movies, Birthday, Age, Family, Husband, Photos & More » Celtalks". Celtalks. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  2. ^ "Leigh Folsom Boyd - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  3. ^ Strauss, Bob (January 25, 2022). "How 'Don't Look Up' and 'Spider-Man' mix tone and action through editing". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  4. ^ "Saturn Awards 2016 Nominees Announced". Comicbook.com. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  5. ^ "ART OF THE CUT with the editors of "Spider-Man: Far from Home" by Steve Hullfish - ProVideo Coalition". July 29, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  6. ^ Hullfish, Steve (July 29, 2021). "Spinning the Web Behind Marvel's "Black Widow"". Frame.io Insider. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  7. ^ Feury, Matt (July 12, 2021). "Black Widow". The Rough Cut. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  8. ^ "Leigh Folsom Boyd". www.metacritic.com. 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2023.

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