Film Editor Steve Rosenblum to Receive AFI Honor

Film editor Steven Rosenblum will be awarded the 2011 Franklin J. Schaffner
 Alumni Medal at the AFI Life Achievement Award dinner honoring Morgan 
Freeman on June 9 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver
City.

The honor recognizes the creative talents of a graduate of the AFI
 Conservatory or the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

Rosenblum attended the AFI Conservatory as an editing fellow from 1976-77. During his second year at the AFI, he met Ed Zwick, a directing
 fellow, with whom he began a collaboration that spans three decades and has 
included such TV series and films as thirtysomething, Glory, Legends of the 
Fall, Courage Under Fire, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond and Defiance.

Rosenblum's credits also include Braveheart, X-Men, Pearl Harbor, Journey to
 the Center of the Earth and the upcoming How I Spent My Summer Vacation.

He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won A.C.E. Eddie 
Awards for Glory and Braveheart.