Bud S. Smith Dies: Academy Award Film Editing Nominee For ‘The Exorcist’ And ‘Flashdance’ Was 88
Editor/associate producer Bud Smith Valerie Macon/Getty Images
Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.
Smith’s death was confirmed by his wife, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith.
During his five decades as an editor, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee, scoring bids in 1975 for William Friedkin’s horror classic, The Exorcist, which Smith shared with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay, and in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance
Smith won the BAFTA award for best editing for Flashdance and a career achievement award from the American Cinema Editors in 2008.
His credits also included Putney Swope, Cruising, Sam Raimi’s Darkman, Robert Towne’s Personal Best and Poltergeist II: The Other Side.
In the 1990s, Smith was a film doctor and consultant, most often on the slate at Universal Pictures under exec Casey Silver.
Born on Dec. 6, 1935 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Smith’s first credit came in 1965 for the TV film “The Bold Men.” He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2012.
He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Lucy.
Variety first reported his death.