Verna Fields won an Oscar for Best Editing on JAWS. Her talent and contribution to the film was widely recognized, and within a year of the film’s release she was named Vice-President for Feature Production at Universal Studios. She was one of the first women to reach upper-level management in the entertainment industry.

Photo is of Fields with presenters Isabelle Adjani and Elliott Gould.

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