[citation needed] After her high school years, Lisa Fruchtman enrolled at the University of Chicago and received an A.B.
Fruchtman was an assistant to editors Barry Malkin, Richard Marks, and Peter Zinner on The Godfather Part II (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
In 1984, she won the Oscar for Best Film Editing for The Right Stuff (1983), along with her co-editors Glenn Farr, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf.
In 1996, Fruchtman received an additional nomination for an Eddie for the television film Truman, which was directed by Frank Pierson.
She was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award (Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special - Single Camera Production).