Stu Linder

{{Short description|American film editor (1931–2006)}}

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| name = Stu Linder

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| birth_name = Stewart Bridgewater Linder

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|11|8}}

| birth_place = Geneva, Illinois

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|1|12|1931|11|8}}

| death_place = Ridgefield, Connecticut

| spouse = Cathy Fitzpatrick, Maureen O’Connor

| occupation = Film editor

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Stewart Bridgewater Linder (November 8, 1931 – January 12, 2006) was an American film editor with 25 credits.{{IMDb name|0511742}} He shared the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 1966 film Grand Prix (directed by John Frankenheimer), which was the 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 Picture. 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-20-ca-32-story.html|title=Kudos|last=MacMINN|first=ALEENE|date=1989-03-20|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-01-09|last2=PUIG|first2=CLAUDIA|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989|title=The 61st Academy Awards {{!}} 1989|website=Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|language=en|access-date=2019-01-08}}{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1990/film/editing|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=2019-01-08}}