Sandra Adair (born 1952) is an American film editor who has worked with director Richard Linklater since 1993.
Life and career
Sandra B. Adair (born Estrin) was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the daughter of Rachel and Herman Estrin. Her family moved to Las Vegas in the early 1960s.
Adair later lived in Los Angeles. In 1978, she married television director and filmmaker Dwight R. Adair (Dallas; Dynasty). In the beginning of her career, she often worked as assistant editor for her brother, Robert Estrin. Together, they worked on films and documentary features such as Desert Hearts (1985), Creation of the Universe (1985), What Happened to Kerouac? (1986) or Internal Affairs (1990). In 1991, she moved to Austin, Texas. Since 1993, she has edited all of Richard Linklater's films, and has co-produced some of them.
Adair received the ACE Eddie Award for her editing of Boyhood (directed by Richard Linklater - 2014). She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film.
Adair is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, of American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) and Austin Film Society.
Selected filmography
1986: Maricela (TV movie) 1988: The Telephone 1990: Smoothtalker 1993: Dazed and Confused 1994: The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1995: Before Sunrise 1996: SubUrbia 1998: The Newton Boys 1998: They Come at Night 2001: Waking Life 2001: Tape 2003: Rolling Kansas 2003: Sexless 2003: School of Rock 2004: Before Sunset 2004: $5.15/Hr. (TV movie) 2005: Bad News Bears 2006: Fast Food Nation 2006: A Scanner Darkly 2007: Elvis and Anabelle 2008: Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (documentary) 2008: Me and Orson Welles 2010: Everything Must Go 2011: Bernie 2012: Sushi − The Global Catch (documentary) 2012: Shepard & Dark (documentary) 2013: Before Midnight 2014: Boyhood 2016: Everybody Wants Some!! 2017: Last Flag Flying 2019: Where'd You Go, Bernadette 2022: Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood