The acclaimed editor also worked on "Taxi Driver," "American Graffiti," "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," and "Return of the Jedi."

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing the original Star Wars and scored a nom for American Graffiti, both directed by her then-husband George Lucas, died May 27 of cancer in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 80.

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

Marcia Lucas, Academy Award-winning film editor, died at the age of 80, AP News reports. Her attorney, Deidre Von Rock, confirmed that she died from metastatic cancer on Wednesday in Rancho Mirage, California,