{"id":14493,"date":"2012-02-23T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2012-02-23T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:15:43","slug":"84th-academy-awards-film-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/23\/84th-academy-awards-film-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Film Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14444\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOMINEES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"The Artist (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Artist_(film)\">The Artist<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Anne-Sophie Bion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne-Sophie_Bion\">Anne-Sophie Bion<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Michel Hazanavicius\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Hazanavicius\">Michel Hazanavicius<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"The Descendants (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Descendants_(film)\">The Descendants<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Kevin Tent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Tent\">Kevin Tent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_(2011_film)\">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Angus Wall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angus_Wall\">Angus Wall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Kirk Baxter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirk_Baxter\">Kirk Baxter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Hugo (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_(film)\">Hugo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Thelma Schoonmaker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thelma_Schoonmaker\">Thelma Schoonmaker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Moneyball (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moneyball_(film)\">Moneyball<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a title=\"Christopher Tellefsen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Tellefsen\">Christopher Tellefsen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This award began in 1934 and is closely watched because it is often seen as good indicator for Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because since 1981\u00a0every Best Picture nominee has also been nominated for editing, and nearly two thirds of the eventual Best Picture winners have also won the award for editing.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations are voted on by members of the Editing Branch, which in 2008 consisted\u00a0of 233 members.<\/p>\n<p>Academy Rules state:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>A Reminder List of all eligible motion pictures shall be sent with a nominations ballot to all members of the Film Editors Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five\u00a0productions.<\/li>\n<li>The five productions receiving the highest number of votes shall become the nominations for final\u00a0voting for the Film Editing award.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;only film editors who hold principal position credit(s) shall\u00a0be considered eligible for the Film Editing award.<\/li>\n<li>Final voting for the Film Editing award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members.<\/li>\n<li>Only the principal, &#8220;above the line&#8221; editor(s) as listed in the film&#8217;s credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not generally eligible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Intriguingly, this is the reverse of the BAFTA voting system where\u00a0the winner is selected by members of the equivalent editing \u00a0branch (or &#8216;chapter&#8217; as it called in the UK).<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPm0IuVylFU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epklink.com\/americancinemaeditors\/\">Michael Hazanavicius\u00a0talking at the recent ACE awards<\/a> [about 5 mins in]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J5AyfjRL2Hc\">French video interview with Anna-Sophie Bion<\/a> [18 mins]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE DESCENDANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nXvEdbOlFWQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epklink.com\/americancinemaeditors\/\">Video of the recent ACE tribute to Alexander Payne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmagazine.com\/Video-Center\/Gallery\/Audio-Interview-with-Kevin-Tent-on-The-Descendan.aspx\">Post Magazine audio interview with Kevin Tent<\/a> [5 mins]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23brBSGBZMc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmagazine.com\/Publications\/Post-Magazine\/2011\/November-1-2011\/Cover-Story-The-Girl-With-the-Dragon-Tattoo.aspx\">Post Magazine feature on how Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter edited the movie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalfilms.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/13\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/\">DV Magazine with more details on the post-production<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HUGO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgXcpZqQy8M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/movies\/2012\/01\/oscars-2012-hugo-editor-thelma-schoomaker-on-wrangling-children-dogs-and-3d.html\">LA Times interview with Thelma Schoonmaker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlnews.com\/awards\/contender-editor-thelma-schoonmaker-hugo\/\">Below the Line interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MONEYBALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J98rqI0zvcY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmagazine.com\/Video-Center\/Gallery\/Audio-Interview-with-Chris-Tellefsen-on-Cutting-.aspx\">Post Magazine audio interview with editor Chris Tellefsen<\/a> [31 mins]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/08\/below-the-line-making-the-cut-on-moneyball\/\">NY Times feature on the editing of Moneyball<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiodaily.com\/filmandvideo\/projects\/13670.html\">Studio Daily interview with Chris Tellefsen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing\">Explore previous winners of Best Editing at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominees include The Artist, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo and Moneyball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}