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Academy-Award winning film editor Chris Innis, A.C.E., graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in film studies, and received her M.F.A. in live action filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the creative arts school founded by Walt Disney. Innis won the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.), and International Press Academy's Golden Satellite awards for "Best Film Editing" for "The Hurt Locker", shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski.

Some of her editorial credits include work on film director Sam Raimi's cult TV show "American Gothic," Raimi's "The Gift" and "Spider-man" (Music editor: temp score), and Ridley Scott's "G.I.Jane" (Associate Editor). She was mentored by film editor Pietro Scalia, who she first worked with on the Academy-Award winning Oliver Stone film, "JFK."

Innis is also a writer-filmmaker who has been a semi-finalist in the Academy of Arts and Sciences Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project Screenwriting Competition. Her short films have screened at several major film festivals and she has written, directed and produced karaoke videos for Pioneer Electronics, as well as edited music videos for the likes of director Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley Scott), and for artists such as Ice Cube, Onyx and DMX.

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Graduated from CalArts film school (MFA), and UC Berkeley (BA) as a film major.

Chris Innis was an associate editor to and was mentored by Academy Award winning editor, Pietro Scalia (1991-1996).

Her husband is editor Bob Murawski (2008-present). They have been a couple since 1997, after they were first introduced to each other by film director, Sam Raimi, on the TV series "American Gothic" (1995), where the two worked as editors. Both have worked on various Sam Raimi projects (but not always the same ones), and have since worked together on Raimi's The Gift (2000) and Marvel/Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man (2002) films. Innis and Murawski also won Academy Awards in 2010 for their editing on the dramatic Iraq war film, The Hurt Locker (2008), which also won the "Best Picture" Oscar. They have collaborated on various Grindhouse Releasing and Box Office Spectaculars films (both companies distribute cult films, and the businesses are owned or co-owned and run by Bob Murawski and Sage Stallone.

Her father Don Innis is an architect who designed the San Diego embarcadero, the San Diego Broadway pier, and one of the terminals at San Diego's Lindbergh International Airport, and is a pioneer of the idea of a "floating airport," in San Diego, California.

Worked her way up as a teenage movie theater cashier and popcorn salesgirl at UA, Mann's and Landmark theaters up through the Hollywood rank and file.