Marcia Lucas (née Griffin) (born 1945) is an American film editor.
In 1974, Lucas and Verna Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for their work on American Graffiti. She edited the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 1975, and was the supervising film editor on Taxi Driver (1976).
Lucas won the 1977 Academy Award for Film Editing (with Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch) for her work on Star Wars (1977). She also edited the third film of the original Star Wars trilogy Return of the Jedi (1983).
She met George Lucas while he was attending film school at the University of Southern California, and they were married from 1969 to 1983. They adopted one daughter, Amanda Lucas, who was born in 1981.
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“When posterity judges our actions here it will perhaps see us not as unwilling prisoners but as men who for whatever reason preferred to remain non-contributing individuals on the edge of society.”
—George Lucas (b. 1944)