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Leigh Folsom Boyd
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Leigh Folsom Boyd is an American film editor. She began her career in the editing department for television shows in the 1990s and later transitioned into feature films. Boyd’s feature-editing profile includes significant projects across major franchises. She was one of the editors on Furious 7 (2015), sharing editing credit with Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith, and Kirk M. Morri. She also co-edited Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) alongside Jeffrey Ford. Her other editing credits include major genre films such as Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Black Widow (2021), and earlier entries in the Fast & Furious series. In terms of recognition, Boyd has received nominations for prominent industry awards celebrating film editing. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nominated her, along with Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith, and Kirk M. Morri, for the Saturn Award for Best Editing for Furious 7 in 2016. She received another nomination in 2022, shared with Jeffrey Ford, for her work on Spider-Man: No Way Home. That same year, she and Ford were nominated for the Chicago Indie Critics (CIC) Award for Best Editing for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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