one of the five best episodes of the series. His episode of "Gossip Girl" titled "The Handmaiden's Tale" was chosen by Newsweek magazine as one of the ten best television episodes of 2007. His only acting credit is a minor role in Solomon & Sheba, a part he only landed because was editing another project in Morocco, and the producers shooting Solomon & Sheba did not want to fly in other English-speaking actors to play minor parts. He agreed to do it only as a lark. Buckley has been nominated twice for an American Cinema Editors award: in 2003, for Joe and Max, for Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television; and in 2008, for the pilot for Chuck, for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television. He won the latter award at the ACE banquet on February 17, 2008. He has been an assistant visiting professor in the film school at the University of California, Los Angeles. Personal life Buckley has a sister, Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley, and two brothers, Patrick and Michael. His two brothers became engineers, a profession his father thought more worthy than any job in the film industry, although Buckley has stated: "Fortunately, my father expressed his pride in my accomplishments before he died." Buckley is openly gay. He has been widowed twice. He lived with Broadway dancer Timothy Scott from 1983 until Scott's death in 1988. In 2004, Buckley met artist Davyd Whaley and they moved-in together. They married as soon as they were able, during a brief window of legal opportunity in the state of California, and remained married up to Whaley's death on October 15, 2014. References External links 1955 births American film editors American Cinema Editors American television directors Living people People from Limestone, Maine People from Fort Worth, Texas American television editors USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni University of Texas at Arlington alumni Film directors from Texas LGBT film directors LGBT television directors LGBT people from Maine Film directors from Maine Gay men