Marcia Lucas is an American film editor who, in her brief career, won an Academy Award for her work in the first instalment of the Star Wars movies Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and went on to work in the third instalment of the trilogy Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. However, before winning accolades for the Star War movies, she had already won acclaim for her work in George Lucas’s film American Graffiti and filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s movies Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver and New York, New York. American Graffiti and Taxi Driver won nominations for best editing at Academy and BAFTA awards respectively. Earlier in her career, she was employed as an apprentice film librarian with Sandler Film Library which later sent her to assist the reputed film editor, Verna Fields in the government funded documentary the latter was working on. It was while working on this documentary that she met the young George Lucas and married him. The two later separated.