Pietro Scalia is a film editor who has won two Academy Awards. For over thirty years, Scalia has built his career working with acclaimed directors such as Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gus Van Sant, Sam Raimi, Ron Howard, and most recently, with Michael Mann on “FERRARI”. He began his career as an assistant editor for Oliver Stone on “WALL STREET” and “TALK RADIO”. In the following years, Scalia progressed in Stone’s editing room, contributing as an associate editor on “BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY” and as an additional editor on “THE DOORS”. In 1992, at the age of 31, Scalia won his first Oscar with Joe Hutshing for Best Editing for Stone’s “JFK”. That year he also received the A.C.E. and BAFTA awards.

In 1998, Scalia received his second Oscar nomination for Gus Van Sant’s “GOOD WILL HUNTING”. He then began a 15-year collaboration with Ridley Scott, working on films such as “G.I. JANE”, “HANNIBAL”, “GLADIATOR”, “BLACK HAWK DOWN”, and “AMERICAN GANGSTER”. Scalia received Oscar nominations for “GLADIATOR” and won his second Oscar for “BLACK HAWK DOWN”.

Following the success of Ridley Scott’s “THE MARTIAN” in 2015, which earned Scalia his fifth ACE and BAFTA nominations, he edited Scott’s “ALIEN: COVENANT”, their eleventh film together. He then edited “SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY” with Ron Howard. Among Scalia’s other recent credits are Michael Bay’s “AMBULANCE” and the Russo Brothers’ “THE GRAY MAN”.

Among the films he has directed are “THE COUNSELOR”, “THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN” 1 and 2 for Marc Webb, “LITTLE BUDDHA” and “STEALING BEAUTY” for Bernardo Bertolucci, “FOR LOVE OF THE GAME” for Sam Raimi, “MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA” for Rob Marshall, and “KICK-ASS” for Matthew Vaughn. He has also edited documentaries such as “40 YEARS OF SILENCE: An Indonesian Tragedy”, “THE ELEVENTH HOUR”, and “ASHES AND SNOW”.

In addition to editing, Scalia has worked as a music producer with composer Hans Zimmer on three of Scott’s films and served on the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 and the Zurich Film Festival in 2012. In 2023, Scalia was awarded the prestigious Vision Award at the Locarno Film Festival.

Of Sicilian origin, Scalia immigrated at a young age with his family from Italy to Switzerland, where he grew up and was educated before moving to the United States to pursue a career in filmmaking. In 1985, he earned a Master’s degree in Film and Theater Arts from UCLA – University of California.