Pia Di Ciaula ACE, CCE is a BAFTA winning international film editor best known for editing 'A Very English Scandal', 'The Crown' and 'Tyrannosaur'. Di Ciaula was born to Italian parents in Toronto where she began her film editing career. She received a

Gemini Award The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States ...

Nomination for Best Editing on ''Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story''. She received two Genie Award Nominations for Best Editing for her first two feature films that were Canadian/UK co-productions, Intimate Relations starring Julie Walters, and Regeneration starring Jonathan Pryce. She then relocated to London, England and collaborated with Gillies MacKinnon on seven films including

Hideous Kinky ''Hideous Kinky'' is an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, daughter of British painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. It depicts the author's unconventional childhood in Morocco with her mothe ...

with Kate Winslet, Pure with Keira Knightley, and

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'' is a 2000 British-American television film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The script by Alan Plater focuses on the efforts of a recently widowed woman to re-unite the members of the World War II-era swing b ...

winning Judi Dench a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Di Ciaula's second collaboration with Keira Knightley was on Silk, written and directed by François Girard. Other features include Nora starring Ewan McGregor, and Belle. Di Ciaula's prolific collaboration with director David Blair resulted in the multi-Emmy and BAFTA Award winning show The Street starring Timothy Spall and Tess of the D'Urbervilles starring Gemma Arterton and Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke) and Di Ciaula collaborated on Altamira starring Antonio Banderas. Di Ciaula then edited A Quiet Passion with "the UK's greatest living autour" Terence Davies, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson along with Keith Carradine and Jennifer Ehle. Di Ciaula's first collaboration with actor/writer/director Paddy Considine on Tyrannosaur won approximately 40 awards world-wide including Sundance, Best Independent British Film and a BAFTA. Di Ciaula and Considine's wonderful collaboration continued on his sophomore film Journeyman which will premier at the London Film Festival in 2017. Di Ciaula edited the first two seasons of The Crown with three time Oscar nominated Stephen Daldry (The Reader, The Hours) and two time Oscar nominated Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen). The Crown is a multi-Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winner and Pia Di Ciaula was BAFTA nominated for Best Editing: Fiction for Season 2, Episode 9, Paterfamilias. Di Ciaula won a BAFTA for editing A Very English Scandal, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw.

Filmography

*'' Silent Night'' (2021) *'' Dirt Music'' (2019) *''

Hope Gap ''Hope Gap'' is a 2019 British drama film written and directed by William Nicholson, adapted from his 1999 play ''The Retreat from Moscow''. The film stars Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O'Connor, Aiysha Hart, Ryan McKen, Steven Pacey and N ...

'' film (2019) *''

A Very English Scandal ''A Very English Scandal'' is a true crime non-fiction novel by John Preston. It was first published on 5 May 2016 by Viking Press and by Other Press in the United States. The novel details the 1970s Thorpe affair in Britain, in which former L ...

'' (mini-series) 2018 *'' The Crown'' 2016-17 3 episodes *'' Journeyman'' 2016 *''

A Quiet Passion ''A Quiet Passion'' is a 2016 British biographical film written and directed by Terence Davies about the life of American poet Emily Dickinson. The film stars Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet. It co-stars Emma Bell as young Dickinson, Jennifer ...

'' (film) 2016 *''Altamira'' (film) 2015 *''The Journey Home'' (film) 2013-14 *'' Belle'' (film) 2012-13 *'' Tyrannosaur'' (2011) *'' Strike Back'' (2 episodes, 2010) *''Blood and Oil'' (2009) (TV) *'' The Fattest Man in Britain'' (2009) (TV) *''Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' (2008) (mini-series) *''Burn Up'' (2008) (mini-series) *''

The Street The Street may refer to: Geographical *Wall Street in New York City's Financial District *The Street, Lawshall, Suffolk, England *The Street (Heath Charnock) The Street is a historical property on a bridleway of the same name in Heath Charnock ...

'' (4 episodes, 2007–2009) *'' Stuart: A Life Backwards'' (2007) (TV) *''Silk'' film (2007) *''Mysterious Creatures'' (2006) (TV) *''

Tara Road ''Tara Road'' is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1999. Plot introduction It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met. They'r ...

'' film (2005) *''

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot ''Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'' is a 2004 BBC miniseries based upon the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI of Scotland. Written by Jimmy McGovern, the series tells the story behind the Gunpowder Plot in two parts, each centred on o ...

'' (2004) (TV) *''Double Bill'' (2003) (TV) *''Byron'' (2003) (TV) *'' The One and Only'' (2002) *'' Pure'' (2002) *'' The Escapist'' (2002) *''

'' (2000) (TV) *'' Nora'' (2000) *''The Last Yellow'' film (1999) *''

'' (1998) *'' The Real Howard Spitz'' (1998) *'' Regeneration (Behind the Lines)'' (1997) film *''Night Visitors'' (1996) (TV) *'' Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?'' (1996) (TV) *'' Intimate Relations'' (1996) *''The Deliverance of Elaine'' (1996) (TV) *''Visitors of the Night'' (1995) (TV) *''Dancing in the Dark'' (1995) (TV) *''Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story'' (1995) (TV) *'' Falling for You'' (1995) (TV) *''Deadly Love'' (1995) (TV) *'' Another Woman'' (1994) (TV) *'' Ready or Not'' (7 episodes, 1993–1994) *''Hush Little Baby'' (1993) (TV) *''

Road to Avonlea ''Road to Avonlea'' is a Canadian television series first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, as part of the ''CBC Family Hour'' anthology series, and in the United States starting on March 5, 1990. It was created b ...

'' (3 episodes, 1992) *'' Danger Bay'' (1984) TV series (unknown episodes)

External links

An Evening with Pia Di Ciaula, CCELondon Film Academy
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