---
name: "Nancy Forner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nancy-forner"
fi1m_id: "nancy-forner"
imdb_id: "nm0286501"
tmdb_id: 1589190
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 59
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T18:44:00.673034+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."
---

# Nancy Forner

## Identity

Nancy Forner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nancy-forner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nancy-forner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0286501
- **TMDB ID:** 1589190
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286501/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1589190

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1984–1999
- **Frequently works with:** [David Grossman](https://film.one/person/david-grossman.md), [Geoffrey Rowland](https://film.one/person/geoffrey-rowland.md), [Marita Grabiak](https://film.one/person/marita-grabiak.md), [Rick Rosenthal](https://film.one/person/rick-rosenthal.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 38 (1), 1990s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286501/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1589190

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Nancy Forner is a film and television editor. She began her career in the late 1970s as a production assistant and assistant editor on features including *Dead & Buried* (1981), *Revenge of the Nerds* (1984) and *Better Off Dead...* (1985). She received her first editing credit on *Return to Horror High* (1987).

Forner edited 13 episodes of the series *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1998–2000). Her other television credits include *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, *Providence*, *The Vampire Diaries*, *Mistresses* and *Witches of East End*. She is a member of the American Cinema Editors and has taught editing at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she holds the Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing.

*Sources: imdb.com, cinema.usc.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)
- *Revenge of the Nerds* (1984), Fi1m 38, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/revenge-of-the-nerds.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Witches of East End* (2013), series, Editor
- *Mistresses* (2013), series, Editor
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Editor
- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), series, Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)
- *The Fear* (1995), Editor
- *Lost in Dinosaur World* (1993), Editor
- *Return to Horror High* (1987), Editor
- *Better Off Dead...* (1985), Associate Editor
- *Revenge of the Nerds* (1984), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/revenge-of-the-nerds.md)
- *Dead & Buried* (1981), Assistant Editor

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