Biography
Craig McKay is an American film editor. He began his career as an assistant editor and later worked with Dede Allen on several projects. He has edited more than forty feature films and received two Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, for Reds (1981, shared with Allen) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
McKay collaborated frequently with director Jonathan Demme, editing seven of his films including Melvin and Howard (1980), The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia (1993). Other notable credits include Cop Land (1997), The Manchurian Candidate (2004) and Maid in Manhattan (2002). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for editing the 1978 miniseries Holocaust and has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Institute.
McKay is a member of the American Cinema Editors and has also worked as a producer and director.
