Stewart Bridgewater "Stu" Linder (November 8, 1931–January 12, 2006) was an American film editor with 25 credits. He shared the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1966 film Grand Prix (directed by John Frankenheimer), which was the very first film on which Linder was credited as an editor. Linder is particularly noted for his long collaboration (1982-2006) with the director Barry Levinson. Perhaps the best remembered film from their collaboration, which extended over 20 films, was Rain Man (1988), which won the Academy Award for Best Film. Linder won an ACE Eddie award for editing this film, and was nominated for both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. He died on January 12, 2006 of a heart attack, at the age of 74. The 2006 film Man of the Year starring Robin Williams is dedicated to Linder's memory.
Died of a heart attack while working on location of 'Barry Levinson (I)''s Man of the Year (2006) in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was 74.
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Linder received an Academy Award nomination for the Levinson-directed "Rain Man" (1988), the Seattle Times called his editing "a major contribution" that heightened the tension of key scenes. The film won for best picture and director. Linder's Oscar, which he shared with three others, for John Frankenheimer's race-car melodrama "Grand Prix" (1966).
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Was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He served as an illustrator for the Foreign Language School at Fort Ord in California.
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