Marcia Lucas, Oscar-winning “Star Wars” editor and former wife of George Lucas, dies at 80
Marcia Lucas, Oscar-winning “Star Wars” editor and former wife of George Lucas, dies at 80
Wesley StenzelFri, May 29, 2026 at 11:51 PM UTC
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Marcia Lucas in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 27, 2019
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Marcia Lucas, the acclaimed film editor who won an Oscar for her work on Star Wars, has died.
The filmmaker, who was married to George Lucas from 1969 to 1983, died at 80 on Wednesday at her vacation home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., following a battle with metastatic cancer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Marcia's family for comment.
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George Lucas and Marcia Lucas in New York City on June 21, 1977
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"Marcia was a force," the editor's family said in a statement to the Chronicle. "A true trailblazer for women in film and one of the most influential editors in cinematic history; she helped redefine what film editing could be and paved the way for generations of women who followed."
Marcia also edited her then-husband's 1973 film American Graffiti, which earned her her first Oscar nomination. She also earned a BAFTA nomination in 1976 for her supervising editing work on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and edited two more of his films, 1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and 1977's New York, New York.
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