Marcia Lucas, the film editor who won an Oscar for editing “Star Wars,” directed by her former husband George Lucas, and shaped several influential films of the 1970s, died Wednesday in Rancho Mirage,

Marcia Lucas, the Oscar winning editor widely credited with helping shape the original Star Wars, has died at the age of 80. The legendary filmmaker passed away from metastatic cancer at her California home.

Marcia Lucas, the Academy Award-winning editor and former wife of Star Wars creator George Lucas, has died aged 80.

Marcia Lucas, the acclaimed Academy Award-winning editor whose work helped shape some of Hollywood's most iconic films, has died at the age of 80. Best known for her contribution to Star Wars, American Graffiti and Taxi Driver,

The film editor and ex-wife of director George Lucas was widely recognised as a pivotal creative force behind the original space trilogy.

Lucas had a fairly staggering run as an editor in the 1970s, lending her talents to films like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People as well as multiple Martin Scorsese movies. Although she largely retired from filmmaking after the landmark success of Star Wars altered the trajectory of her family’s life,