Shortly afterward, he returned to the United States on a work visa to pursue his career in Hollywood as a film editor.
After five years of working with Oliver Stone, Scalia was finally asked to fully edit a film.
It was JFK, for which Scalia and his co-editor, Joe Hutshing, were honored with an Academy Award for Film Editing.
[4] Pietro Scalia worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha (1993) and Stealing Beauty (1996),[5] as well as with Sam Raimi on The Quick and the Dead (1995).
He has a long lasting relationship with Ridley Scott working on movies such as American Gangster in 2007, Body of Lies in 2008 and Robin Hood in 2010.
In May 2017, Scalia replaced editor Chris Dickens on the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.