Awards & Winners

Frank Morriss

Date of Birth 10-September-1927
Place of Birth Texas
(United States of America, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frank E. Morriss
Profession Film Editor
Frank E. Morriss was a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968. He had a notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1974 – 2004. Morriss' editing of Charley Varrick was nominated for the BAFTA Award. He was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing: for Blue Thunder and for Romancing the Stone. Morriss was a 1946 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he was a three sport varsity letterman. He attended the University of Oregon for two quarters. In 1948, Morriss enrolled at Santa Monica College.

Awards by Frank Morriss

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frank Morriss.

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Romancing the Stone

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Film Editing Blue Thunder

1974


Primetime Emmy Award for Film Editor Of The Year
Honored for : The Execution of Private Slovik
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing - Special
Honored for : NBC Mystery Movie
(The Execution of Private Slovik)

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Editing Charley Varrick
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing - Special NBC Mystery Movie
The Execution of Private Slovik
Primetime Emmy Award for Film Editor Of The Year The Execution of Private Slovik