Chris Innis, an Academy-Award winning film editor, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in live action filmmaking from the California Institute of the Arts, founded by Walt Disney.
Innis received the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (ACE),and International Press Academy's Golden Satellite awards for "Best Film Editing" for "The Hurt Locker," sharing the honor with co-editor Bob Murawski, ACE. She served as an associate board member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Like director Joel Coen, Innis began her career in the cutting rooms of director Sam Raimi, among other filmmakers. Her editing credits include Sam Raimi's cult TV show "American Gothic," Raimi's "The Gift" and "Spider-man" (music editor: temp score),as well as Ridley Scott's Navy Seals film "G.I. Jane" (Associate Editor). She worked her way up alongside film editors Pietro Scalia, ACE, and Joe Hutshing, ACE, whom she assisted on the Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone film, "JFK."
In addition to her editing work, Innis is also a writer-filmmaker who has been a semi-finalist in the Academy of Arts and Sciences Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project Screenwriting Competition. Her short films have screened at several major film festivals, and she has written, directed, and produced karaoke videos for Pioneer Electronics, as well as edited music videos for artists such as Ice Cube, Onyx, and DMX.
Innis has also produced for distributor Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, including the recent digital restorations on Blu-ray/DVD of classic films such as 1966's "The Big Gundown" and the 1968 film, "The Swimmer." She wrote, directed, produced, and edited "The Story of the Swimmer," a five-part, 2-1/2 hour documentary on the making of "The Swimmer."
Innis is a fellow and current member of the Ryan Murphy Television Directing Mentorship Program (Half Initiative). She has lectured and participated in panels at film schools, universities, and public schools, including the University of Southern California (USC) film school, the American Film Institute (AFI),the University of Nebraska Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Lincoln Nebraska Public Schools Arts & Humanities Focus Program, and John F. Kennedy public high school's filmmaking magnet program in Los Angeles, California.
