Robert Dalva is an Oscar-nominated editor whose credits include: The Black Stallion, Raising Cain, Jumanji, Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo, Raising Cain, October Sky, and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.  In addition to editing, he also directed movies including The Black Stallion Returns.

Dalva was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on The Black Stallion (1979).

He is an alumnus of Colgate University and member of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity.

Dalva has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.^[1] and is considered one of the core group of successful filmmakers known as The Dirty Dozen who were film students at the University of Southern California in the 1960s.