Awards & Winners

Francis D. Lyon

Date of Birth 29-July-1905
Place of Birth Bowbells
(Burke County, North Dakota)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Francis Lyon, Pete, Francis Lyon
Profession Film Director, Film Editor, Television Director
Francis D. Lyon was an American film director and film editor. He and Robert Parrish won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul. He was born in North Dakota and attended UCLA before moving to England to begin his career in film. He returned to the US and from the early 1930s to the 1950s, Lyon was exclusively an editor. He had worked on 25 films as an editor including The Men in Her Life, Body and Soul and The Young and The Brave. He moved on to directing, and was credited on more than over 20 additional films before eventually retiring from the entertainment industry in 1970. In 1993, Lyon published a memoir entitled Twists of Fate: An Oscar Winner's International Career.

Awards by Francis D. Lyon

Check all the awards nominated and won by Francis D. Lyon.

1947


Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Honored for : Body and Soul

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Body and Soul