Robert Dalva

Robert John Dalva (April 14, 1942 – January 27, 2023) From there, he studied filmmaking at Syracuse University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was one of a core group of successful filmmakers known as "The Dirty Dozen".

Career

Editing Dalva's first professor editing credit was of the experimental art film Lions Love (1969), directed by Agnès Varda. He was an early member of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope.

In 1979, he edited The Black Stallion, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Film Editing. His subsequent editing credits included Raising Cain, Jumanji, The Joy Luck Club, Jurassic Park III, Hidalgo, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Lovelace. He was elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.

Documentarian Gary Weimberg credited Dalva with inventing the "timeline" method of editing that is now ubiquitous with non-linear video editing.

Cinematography Dalva's USC classmate George Lucas hired him to shoot second unit photography on the original Star Wars.

Filmography

Film

Television

Documentary works YearTitleContributed toNotes DirectorEditorDoP.1974Close-Up on 'The Conversation''' 1975 Fighting for Our Lives|

1977 Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives| 1987 Nova: Ancient Treasures from the Deep| 1992 The Great Eclipse| 1995 Carrier: Fortress at Sea|

Frontline: A Whale of a Business| Cadillac Desert Real Sex| 2001 Send Word, Bear Mother| 2014 American Masters: A Fierce Green Fire| 2017 Evolution of Organic''

Awards and nominations