Stephen A. Rotter

Stephen A. Rotter
Stephen A. Rotter
Other names	Steven Rotter; Stephen Rotter; Steven A. Rotter
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1969-present

Stephen A. Rotter is a film editor who won at the 56th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing. He was one of the five film editors to win for the film The Right Stuff. He shared it with Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf and Douglas Stewart.^[1]

He has worked on over 30 films as an editor.

In addition, Rotter has also won an Emmy for the mini-series Holocaust. Which he shared with Alan Heim, Craig McKay, Robert M. Reitano and Brian Smedley-Aston.

Selected filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
1973	The Seven-Ups	Philip D'Antoni
1975	Night Moves	Arthur Penn	Fourth collaboration with Arthur Penn
1976	The Missouri Breaks	Arthur Penn	Fifth collaboration with Arthur Penn
1982	The World According to Garp	George Roy Hill	Second collaboration with George Roy Hill
1983	The Right Stuff	Philip Kaufman	First collaboration with Philip Kaufman
1985	Heaven Help Us	Michael Dinner
1985	Target	Arthur Penn	Sixth collaboration with Arthur Penn
1987	Ishtar	Elaine May
1988	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Frank Oz
1989	An Innocent Man	Peter Yates
1990	My Blue Heaven	Herbert Ross	First collaboration with Herbert Ross
1991	True Colors	Herbert Ross	Second collaboration with Herbert Ross
1992	Prelude to a Kiss	Norman René
1993	Rising Sun	Philip Kaufman	Second collaboration with Philip Kaufman
1994	Cops & Robbersons	Michael Ritchie
1995	Father of the Bride Part II	Charles Shyer
1996	The Preacher's Wife	Penny Marshall
1998	The Parent Trap	Nancy Meyers	First collaboration with Nancy Meyers
2000	Down to You	Kris Isacsson
2000	What Women Want	Nancy Meyers	Second collaboration with Nancy Meyers
2001	America's Sweethearts	Joe Roth
2003	Head of State	Chris Rock
2005	Yours, Mine & Ours	Raja Gosnell
2007	Enchanted	Kevin Lima
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven	Nicole Kassell

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1969	Alice's Restaurant	Arthur Penn	Assistant editor	First collaboration with Arthur Penn
1970	Little Big Man	Arthur Penn	Assistant editor	Second collaboration with Arthur Penn
1972	Slaughterhouse-Five	George Roy Hill	Assistant film editor	First collaboration with George Roy Hill
1994	Baby's Day Out	Patrick Read Johnson	Additional editor
1997	Flubber	Les Mayfield	Additional editor
2003	Something's Gotta Give	Nancy Meyers	Additional film editor	Third collaboration with Nancy Meyers
2006	The Ex	Jesse Peretz	Additional editor
2008	Nim's Island	Jennifer Flackett Mark Levin	Additional film editor

Sound department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet	Sound editor

Documentaries

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1973	Visions of Eight	Miloš Forman Claude Lelouch Yuri Ozerov Mai Zetterling Kon Ichikawa John Schlesinger Arthur Penn Michael Pfleghar	Assistant editor	Third collaboration with Arthur Penn

TV movies

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role
1978	Holocaust	Marvin J. Chomsky	Supervising editor

Producer
Year	Film	Director	Credit
1979	Hollow Image	Marvin J. Chomsky	Producer
1980	Doctor Franken	Marvin J. Chomsky Jeff Lieberman	Associate producer
	Death Penalty	Waris Hussein
	The Henderson Monster	Waris Hussein
	King Crab	Marvin J. Chomsky	Producer

TV series

Editor
Year	Title	Notes
1975	The American Parade	1 episode
1978	Holocaust	3 episodes

Editorial department
Year	Title	Role
1978	Holocaust	Supervising editor

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