---
name: "Lynzee Klingman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lynzee-klingman"
fi1m_id: "lynzee-klingman"
imdb_id: "nm0459806"
tmdb_id: 3394
wikidata_id: "Q1878909"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "31 December 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-05T20:04:59.220792+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lynzee Klingman

## Identity

Lynzee Klingman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lynzee-klingman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lynzee-klingman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0459806
- **TMDB ID:** 3394
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1878909
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynzee_Klingman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1878909, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3394

Editor. Born 31 December 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 31 December 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 1974–2001
- **Frequently works with:** [Danny DeVito](https://film.one/person/danny-devito.md), [Michael Douglas](https://film.one/person/michael-douglas.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 84 (2), 1980s 75 (1), 1990s 60 (2), 2000s 68 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 68 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Action 1, Comedy 1, Documentary 1, Fantasy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $746m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynzee_Klingman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1878909, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3394

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Outbreak*](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md) (66), [*City of Angels*](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md) (55)
- **HBO Max:** [*Hearts and Minds*](https://film.one/film/hearts-and-minds.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Ali*](https://film.one/film/ali.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lynzee Klingman is an American film editor. She began her career editing documentaries in New York, including *Hearts and Minds* (1974), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She later moved into feature films.

Klingman received an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award for her work on *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* (1975), which she edited with Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn. She has since edited more than thirty features, including repeated collaborations with Miloš Forman on *Hair* (1979) and *Man on the Moon* (1999), with Danny DeVito on *The War of the Roses* (1989) and *Matilda* (1996), and with Jodie Foster on *Little Man Tate* (1991). She has taught editing at the University of Southern California and received a career achievement award from the American Cinema Editors in 2021.

Born in Chicago, Klingman studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University. She is married to director Richard Pearce.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, oscars.org, hollywoodreporter.com, womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu, americancinemaeditors.org.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Ali* (2001), Fi1m 68, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/ali.md)
- *City of Angels* (1998), Fi1m 55, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *Outbreak* (1995), Fi1m 66, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md)
- *The War of the Roses* (1989), Fi1m 75, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-war-of-the-roses.md)
- *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* (1975), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md)
- *Hearts and Minds* (1974), Fi1m 82, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-and-minds.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cutting 'Hair'* (2020), Actor
- *Five* (2011), Editor
- *The Beaver* (2011), Editor
- *Flakes* (2007), Editor
- *The Lake House* (2006), Editor
- *Down in the Valley* (2005), Editor
- *Duplex* (2003), Editor
- *Ali* (2001), Editor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/ali.md)
- *South Pacific* (2001), Editor
- *Panic* (2000), Editor
- *Man on the Moon* (1999), Editor
- *Living Out Loud* (1998), Editor
- *City of Angels* (1998), Editor — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *Hush* (1998), Editor
- *Matilda* (1996), Editor
- *Home for the Holidays* (1995), Editor
- *Picture Bride* (1995), Editor
- *Outbreak* (1995), Editor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md)
- *Corrina, Corrina* (1994), Additional Editor
- *Hoffa* (1992), Editor
- *A River Runs Through It* (1992), Editor
- *Little Man Tate* (1991), Editor
- *The War of the Roses* (1989), Editor — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-war-of-the-roses.md)
- *Baby Boom* (1987), Editor
- *Maxie* (1985), Editor
- *True Confessions* (1981), Editor
- *Gilda Live* (1980), Editor
- *Hair* (1979), Editor
- *Almost Summer* (1978), Editor
- *You Light Up My Life* (1977), Editor
- *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* (1975), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md)
- *Hearts and Minds* (1974), Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-and-minds.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1976: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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