Scott Conrad

Scott Conrad, the Academy Award-winning film editor (Rocky), began his career in 1964 at 20th Century Fox. Twenty years old at the time, he worked his way up from the mail room. In his search to discover his niche in the studio, he worked for a short time in the Publicity Department covering such films as The Sound of Music and Goodbye, Charlie. The more he learned about the craft of film making, the more he was drawn to film editing. Many of the producers and directors such as Frank Schaffner, Vincente Minelli and Robert Wise encouraged Conrad, explaining that editing was the key to good film making. Robert Mintz, who was the head of TV Post Production, gave Conrad his opportunity. At that time the Film Editors Union was a closed union membership was coveted and very limited. In the previous five years, only 3 new members had been accepted. It was a Catch 22 situation, said Conrad. In order to be accepted into the Editors Guild, you had to have a job as an editor and in order to have