Art of the Cut

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with director, Rudy Valdez, and his editor Viridiana Lieberman about the new documentary, Carlos about guitar legend, Carlos Santana. 

Rudy is a two-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. His HBO documentary The Sentence was a Sundance Audience Award-winner. He’s also worked on numerous other projects as a cinematographer.

Viri, also worked on The Sentence with Rudy as his editor, and she’s a director in her own right, directing the ESPN documentary, Born to Play, which she also edited. Together, she and Rudy are off on their next project already, a documentary series called Choir.

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with Lucy Donaldson, the editor of Kenneth Branagh’s latest film, “A Haunting in Venice.” 

Lucy’s feature film work includes Unspoken, Breaking News in Yuba County, Ma, Stuck, and Choice. 

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with the editors of Gran Turismo - Colby Parker, Junior, ACE, Austyn Daines, and co-editor, Eric Freidenberg.

Colby’s been on Art of the Cut before for his work on Mile 22. Colby was nominated for an ACE Eddie for his work on Ant-Man. His other work includes Patriot’s Day, Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor and Battleship.

Austyn has edited the feature film “Demonic” and the Travis Scott documentary, “Look Mom, I can Fly.”

Eric has cut features including Kandahar, and documentaries including The World of Thinking. He’s also cut TV including 30 for 30, 9-1-1, Unsolved Mysteries, and Chef’s Table. And he was an editor on the GT Academy TV series.

Today on Art of the Cut, a little change of pace. August was the 30th anniversary of the movie, The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis and edited by Don Brochu, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Dov Hoenig, Richard Nord and Dennis Virkler. Why so many editors? You’ll soon find out as I talk to director Andrew Davis about the evolution of the film through editing, his thoughts on being one of the first directors to try to cut a film using Avid Media Composer, and what he looks for when choosing a new editor for a project.

Mr. Davis was nominated for a Golden Globe and a DGA Award for Best Direction for The Fugitive. His other films include Under Siege, Chain Reaction, A Perfect Murder, Collateral Damage, Holes, and The Guardian.

Today on Art of the Cut, Jennifer Lame, ACE, discusses editing Oppenheimer with some of the key members of her editing team: Additional Editor, Mike Fay, First Assistant editor (Avid) Nick Ellsberg, and First Assistant Editor (film), Tom Foligno.

Jennifer Lame was an early Art of the Cut guest when she edited Manchester By the Sea, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie. She has since edited Hereditary, Marriage Story - also nominated for an ACE Eddie - Tenet, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Mike Fay was previously the Visual Effects editor on Bullet Train, John Wick 3, and Passengers, First Assistant Editor on Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and The Mountain Between Us, and editor on the feature film, A Shot through the Wall.

Nick Ellsberg was First assistant editor on Bullet Train, assistant editor on Ghostbusters: Afterlife, second assistant editor on John Wick 3, and editor on the feature film, Watch List.

Tom Faligno was nominated for an ACE Eddie for an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He’s also edited the TV series Ballers, Altered Carbon and Dispatches from Elsewhere. He’s also cut features including All for Nikki and Sweet Lorraine. Later in the episode, you’ll hear his background included working on Martin Scorsese’s Casino, Kundun, and The Aviator as an assistant editor under Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE.

Today on Art of the Cut, Ken Eluto, ACE, Jane Rizzo, ACE and William Henry, ACE discuss cutting Succession, which has earned all three of them Emmy nominations for separate episodes this year.

Ken landed his first Emmy nomination in 1996 for American Experience. He was also nominated for an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for 30 Rock, then WON an Emmy and ACE Eddie the following year for 30 Rock again. More Emmy nominations and another ACE Eddie nomination came his way for 30 Rock in subsequent years, then additional Emmy nominations for Succession in 2020 and last year. Ken has also worked on Modern Love, Genius, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and others.

Jane Rizzo was nominated last year for an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for an episode of Succession. The also cut the recently released The Beanie Bubble movie, and the features Z for Zachariah, Maggie, The Hunt and Leave No Trace, as well as TV series including Dash and Lily and Dickinson.

William Henry was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 for Succession. He’s cut features, including Soul Men and TV series including The Gilded Age, Dickinson, and Monsterland.

Today on Art of the Cut, editor Stephanie Filo, ACE.

Stephanie just hit the Emmy trifecta: she was nominated for three Emmys for three different series! She was nominated for Outstanding Editing in a Variety Program for A Black Lady Sketch Show along with editors Malinda Zehner Guerra, and Taylor Mason. Also in the Variety Programming category, she's nominated for History Of The World Part II with her co-editors, Angel Bryant, Daniel Flesher, and George Mandl. And finally, for Outstanding editing in a Limited Series, she's nominated for Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Stephanie Filo is originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa. She has two Emmy wins, and an ACE Eddie win for A Black Lady Sketch Show. And was a Peabody Award winner for her work on the documentary Surviving R. Kelly and an Emmy winner for her work on the documentary Separated. She was also nominated for an Emmy for her work on the documentary Aging Out. She also recently edited the feature film We Grown Now, which is soon to be released.

Finally, Filo once starred as the only co-host of Art of the Cut ever - for the episode on the thriller, Barbarian. Barring all of the editing wins and nominations, probably her proudest moment, I’m sure.

Today we’re talking with the editors of the TV series, The White Lotus which has been nominated for Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Picture Editing in a Drama Series category. Heather Persons, ACE has been nominated for her episode, “Abductions” and John Valerio, ACE has been nominated for his episode “Arrivederci.”

Heather has been nominated three times before for Emmys, three times for ACE Eddies, and for a BAFTA. She’s edited features, like “Sunshine Cleaning” and was an additional editor on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Her TV credits include, The Flight Attendant, How to Make it in America, and The Ron Clark Story.

John won an Emmy for his “Departures episode from Season 1 of The White Lotus, and won an ACE Eddie for his “Arrivederci” episode from Season 2. He’s also been nominated for another ACE Eddie and a BAFTA.

His work includes TV series like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Old Man, Tokyo Vice and Parks and Recreation.

Today we’re talking with Nena Erb, ACE about the film Joy Ride.

Nena has won two Primetime Emmys for her work on Project Greenlight and Insecure. She also has three ACE Eddie nominations - two for Insecure, and one for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Her other work includes editing Justin Bieber’s Believe, the TV series Little America, and the feature film Little Owl, which also just released.

Today we’re talking with some of the editing team from the biggest pinkest movie to hit screens in a while - Barbie. With us for this conversation are editor Nick Houy, ACE… his first assistant editor, Nick Ramirez,  apprentice editor, Maya Rivera, and post PA, Abdul Ndadi.

Nick Huoy has been on Art of the Cut before for director Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. 

Nick started out as an apprentice to Naomi Geraghty. And in 2012 moved to the editor’s chair where he was an additional editor on Girl Most Likely, and edited Fairhaven, and Manhattan Romance before joining forces with Greta Gerwig for her breakout film, Lady Bird.  

In an interesting bit of trivia, another apprentice editor under Naomi Geraghty was none other than Jennifer Lame who edited the other major film opening in theaters the same weekend as Barbie - Oppenheimer.

First Assistant Nick Ramirez was an editor on the documentary Stutz - co-edited with Nick Huey… He also edited the feature film Mayday and was the first assistant on Little Women and Lady Bird.

As an apprentice editor, this was really Maya Rivera’s first film in post, but since then, she also was an apprentice on The Beanie Bubble, which is out now as well!

Abdul Ndadi is the Post PA on Barbie after moving over from animation. He did animation for a documentary called Stickman: The Roosevelt Wilkerson Story.

Today we’re talking with Eddie Hamilton, ACE about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning. 

Eddie was last on Art of the Cut to discuss Top Gun Maverick - which was the most listened to episode of the last year. He’s also talked with Art of the Cut about Mission Impossible: Fallout,  Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, and Kingsman: Secret Service. I think that’s enough enormous blockbusters, but I’ll also throw in Kickass, Kickass 2, and X-Men First Class and even Resident Evil: Apocalypse almost two decades ago.

Today we’re talking with Kelly Matsumoto, ACE and Dylan Highsmith about editing Fast X.

Dylan has worked his way up, mainly as a VFX Editor, including on Fast Five.  And has been an editor on Fast and Furious 6, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, and Fast 9. He’s also edited Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Star Trek Beyond.

Kelly’s experience with the Fast series goes back to before 2006 with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Also, Fast Five, Fast and Furious 6, and Fast 9. Kelly’s other credits include The Meg, Star Trek Beyond, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and Van Helsing among others.

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Today we’re talking with Oscar nominee and multiple BAFTA nominee Barney Pilling, ACE about editing Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City.

Barney has been nominated for BAFTAs for his editing of Spooks, Life on Mars, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. He was also nominated for a BAFTA and won an ACE Eddie for The Grand Budapest Hotel. 

His other work includes Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Annihilation, and Suffragette. Also, numerous TV series including Outcasts, Playhouse Presents, and Mum. 

Today we’re talking with Michael Andrews, ACE, editor of the incredible animated feature, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Anyone who has seen this has to just be in awe of how something like this got made - and Mike’s gonna shed some light on that for us.

Mike’s credits include editing Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Megamind, Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek the Third. When you figure that each of those was probably a multi-year commitment, that is a lot of animation editing experience.

There are some truly amazing behind the scenes facts in this interview.

Today we’re talking with three of the editors of the Disney Plus series, Andor - John Gilroy, ACE. Yan Miles, ACE and Simon Smith.

John Gilroy, ACE is an editor and also a producer on the series. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for the feature film Michael Clayton. And he was nominated for an ACE Eddie and a BAFTA for Nightcrawler. His feature work includes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Suicide Squad, Pacific Rim, The Bourne Legacy, and Salt, among many others. 

Yan Miles, ACE has edited some of the great TV series of recent years including Game of Thrones and Band of Brothers.  He won an Emmy and was nominated for an ACE Eddie for The Crown and he won an Emmy, a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for Sherlock. 

Simon Smith has been on Art of the Cut before when he won the Emmy, the BAFTA and the ACE Eddie for Chernobyl. He also recently won the ACE Eddie for cutting the “One Way Out” episode of Andor. 

Today we’re talking with two of the editors of the TV series, The Last of Us - Timothy Good, ACE and Emily Mendez.

Tim edited the feature Dead Man Down and numerous TV series including The Umbrella Academy, The Resident and others.

Emily Mendez was an assistant editor on all 9 episodes of The Last of Us and editor for four of them. She was an assistant editor on TV series like The Umbrella Academy and The Resident, and an editor on the series Light as a Feather. 

Today is the 400th episode of Art of the Cut. We’re talking with two of the editors of the TV series, Wednesday. They are Jay Prychidny, CCE and Ana Yavari.

Jay joined us just a few months ago to chat about editing Scream 6. Jay has won or been nominated for numerous Canadian Cinema Editors Awards for projects including The Alienist, Orphan Black, Canada’s Next Top Model, The Next Step, and Lost and Found Music Studios. He also won a BAFTA for The Next Step. His other credits include the TV series Snowpiercer, Altered Carbon, and Wednesday.

Ana edited the TV series From, which is currently airing. She was also an editor on The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Hardy Boys.

Today we’re talking with the editors of the TV series, Poker Face. Those editors are Bob Ducsay, ACE, Glenn Garland, ACE, Paul Swain, and Shaheed Qaasim.

Bob’s been on the show several times, most recently for the two Knives Out mysteries. He also edited Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, Godzilla King of the Monsters, and Rampage among many others.

Glenn is a fellow editing podcaster himself. He hosts the Editors on Editing podcast, so the pressure is on. His work includes King of California and Halloween.

Paul’s work includes The Unicorn, Brockmire, and Guilty Party.

Shaheed’s work includes A Black Lady Sketch Show, which has been featured on Art of the Cut, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Modern Family, and Deadwood.

Today we’re talking with the editor of the TV series, Star Trek: Picard. Discussing season 3, is editor Drew Nichols, who is also an associate producer on the show. Drew started off in reality and documentary programming about 15 years ago and transitioned into scripted as an assistant editor on great shows like Mad Men and True Detective. He moved into the scripted  television editors chair on 12 Monkeys, The In Between, American Cartel, and MacGyver. 

Today we’re talking with Harry Yoon, ACE, Laura Zempel, Jordan Kim, and Nat Fuller about the TV series Beef. This is the first in a series of six Art of the Cut episodes leading up to Emmy voting. Upcoming shows will feature editors from Andor, Picard, Poker Face, The Last of Us, and Wednesday.

Harry Yoon has been on Art of the Cut many times before, most recently for the film, Minari, but also for the films Detroit, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Best of Enemies. Harry was also an editor on the TV series Euphoria.

Laura Zempel was also a previous guest on our Euphoria episode. She’s also been an editor on the TV series Dispatches from Elsewhere.

Jordan Kim’s credits - among others - include Portlandia, Yo Gabba Gabba, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, and the great satirical show Documentary Now which was featured on Art of the Cut several years ago

Finally, Nat Fuller edited the Film The Peanut Butter Falcon, with Kevin Tent, ACE. He was also an editor on numerous episodes of Stranger Things among other projects. 

Today on Art of the Cut, editors Fred Raskin, ACE and Greg D'Auria discuss the editing of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3.

Fred’s been a guest on Art of the Cut for Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight. He was also a guest for Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood. He was on for the previous Guardians movie and for The Suicide Squad. He also edited the first Guardians movie, Django Unchained, Fast and Furious, Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Fast Five.

Greg is also an alum of the Fast movies, having cut Fast and Furious 6, and Fast 9. His other work includes Star Trek: Beyond, among others. Raskin and D'Auria go back as assistant editors, both working on Kill Bill: Volume 1 under the legendary Sally Menke. They were also both editors on Bone Tomahawk.

Today we’re talking with Langdon Page, one of the two editors on the  Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary, Navalny. For which the editors won a British Film Editors award and were nominated for an ACE Eddie.

Langdon’s credits include documentaries including Detainee 1, The Cost of Silence, and Maplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. He’s also edited the feature film Mary.

Navalny was co-edited with Maya Hawke, who was unable to join the discussion.

Today we’re speaking with Oscar-winning editor, William Goldenberg, ACE about his work on the feature film Air, directed by his long-time collaborator, Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Jason Bateman. 

Goldenberg has been a guest on Art of the Cut numerous times for films including The Outfit, News of the World, 22 July, Detroit, and Live by Night. 

He was nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Oscar for The Insider, another Oscar and Eddie nomination for Seabiscuit. Then BAFTA, Eddie and Oscar nominations for Zero Dark Thirty, which is the same year he won the Oscar for editing Argo. And another set of BAFTA, Eddie and Oscar nominations for The Imitation Game. 

Today we’re talking with John Axelrad, ACE and his additional editor – and first assistant editor - Jared Simon about the film Chevalier. John and I have spoken several times through the years on Art of the Cut including for Antebellum, Ad Astra and Lost City of Z. Other feature work includes Papillon and Krampus. TV work includes Hack and Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion.

Jared’s assistant editor work includes Antebellum, Ad Astra, Dog and The New Mutants. His TV assisting includes New Amsterdam. 

Today we’re talking with Dan Schalk, ACE about editing “A Good Person” which was directed by Zach Braff and stars Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman.

Dan has moved from LA to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which is where he edited this film, so we chatted from only a few miles away from each other - me in Chicago. Dan’s filmography includes - among others - "The Superhero Movie," "She’s Out of My League," Judd Apatow’s "The Bubble," and "Girl in Progress." His work also includes TV like "Kevin Can F**k Himself," "Parks and Rec" and "New Girl."

Today we’re speaking with Nathan Orloff about John Wick 4. Nate was a guest on Art of the Cut previously for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His other work includes the feature film "Plan B," and work as an additional or associate editor on "Samaritan," "The Front Runner” “Tully,” and “10 Cloverfield Lane.”

Today we’re speaking with Jamie Kennedy who recently won the ACE Eddie for Best Edited non-theatrical Feature film for her work on Weird: The Al Yankovich Story.

She’s edited the feature film Blueprint, and TV shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty, On My Block, Love, Victor, Die Hart and Flipped. She was also an editor on Modern Family after several seasons on the show as an assistant editor.

Today we’re speaking with Jay Prychidny, CCE about editing Scream 6. Jay has won or been nominated for numerous Canadian Cinema Editors Awards for projects including The Alienist, Orphan Black, Canada’s Next Top Model, The Next Step, and Lost and Found Music Studios. He also won a BAFTA for The Next Step. His other credits include the TV series Snowpiercer, Altered Carbon, and Wednesday.

Today we’re speaking with Chris Tellefsen, ACE about his ACE Eddie-nominated editing of The Menu. Chris has been a guest on Art of the Cut several times before for The Many Saints of Newark: A Soprano’s Story, also for A Quiet Place and Assassin’s Creed. He also worked on Joy, which was a previous Art of the Cut interview.

Chris was nominated for TWO ACE Eddie in 2000 - for Analyze This and Man on the Moon. He was nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Oscar for Moneyball. Another ACE Eddie nomination for Joy. And won an HPA Award for A Quiet Place.

In addition he cut True Story, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Capote, and The Village among others.

Today on the ninth year anniversary of Art of the Cut, Adam Gerstel and Laura Jennings discuss Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Laura has had a long career as a VFX editor on films like Sherlock Holmes, John Carter, Skyfall, and Pan. She’s also edited features including Edge of Tomorrow, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

Adam has been a guest on Art of the Cut before with The Lion King and The Mandalorian. He’s been a VFX editor on films like The Aviator and Eat, Pray, Love. He’s also edited features including The Jungle Book, and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Today on Art of the Cut, we discuss the ACE Eddie nominated documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” with one of its editors, Amy Foote. Joe Bini and Brian A. Kates, ACE weren’t available, but are also nominated for the film.

Amy’s credits include the documentaries Father Soldier Son, Hail Satan, A Matter of Taste: Serving up Paul Liebrandt, And Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story

Today on Art of the Cut, we discuss the Oscar nominated documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” with one of its editors, Amy Foote. Joe Bini and Brian A. Kates, ACE weren’t available, but are also nominated for ACE Eddies for the film.

Amy’s credits include the documentaries, Father Soldier Son, Hail Satan, A Matter of Taste: Serving up Paul Liebrandt, and Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story.

Today on Art of the Cut, we discuss the Oscar, BAFTA, and ACE Eddie nominated documentary Fire of Love with the editors of the film, Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput.

Jocelyne’s credits include the documentaries People of a Feather, Fractured Land, Starlight & other Sounds: the music of Alexina Louie, and Power of the River.

Erin’s credits include the documentaries Risk, The Seer and the Unseen, American Promise, and Roll Red Roll.

Today on Art of the Cut, Sven Budelmann discusses his work on the film “All Quiet on the Western Front.” His editing on the film has been nominated this year for both a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie, and the film has been nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture.

Sven’s other work includes the feature film, The Physician -among many others - and TV series - with work on seven European TV series - including The Defeated and Deutchland 83.

Today on Art of the Cut, Oscar-nominee Matt Chesse discusses the editing of "A Man Called Otto."

Matt was nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Oscar for “Finding Neverland.” His other feature film credits include "Christopher Robin," "World War Z," "Quantum of Solace," and "Monster’s Ball."

Today on Art of the Cut, Billy Fox, ACE discusses editing “Devotion” - the dramatic film about the first black naval pilot during the Korean War.

Billy has been on Art of the Cut in the past to discuss Only the Brave, Dolemite is my Name, and Straight Outta Compton. Other features include Hustle and Flow, Coming 2 America, and Footloose. TV series include FBI and Chicago Fire, Law and Order, Band of Brothers and let’s not forget Pee-Wee’s Playhouse!

Today on Art of the Cut, Oscar-winning film editor Conrad Buff, ACE on editing Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” which stars Will Smith.

Conrad has been on Art of the Cut in the past to discuss American Assassin and Huntsman: Winter’s War. The rest of his filmography includes a few small films that you might recognize. He was nominated for an Oscar and an ACE Eddie for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He was nominated for another ACE Eddie for True Lies. AND He was nominated for a BAFTA and WON an Oscar and an ACE Eddie for The Titanic. Other work includes Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Terminator: Salvation, Shooter, King Arthur, Training Day, 13 Days, The Abyss, and … oh… Spaceballs. Just a little indie editor trying to make good.

Today on Art of the Cut, Oscar-winning film editor Lee Smith, ACE, on editing Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light.”

Lee and I have spoken numerous times before including on 1917, Dunkirk and Spectre.

Lee was nominated for an Oscar for Master and Commander, nominated for another Oscar for “The Dark Knight,” nominated for an ACE Eddie and a BAFTA for Inception, and won an Oscar for Dunkirk. Other credits include Interstellar, X-Men: First Class, The Prestige, and Batman Begins.

Today on Art of the Cut, Chad Galster, ACE discusses cutting the series “Yellowstone.” Our discussion also covers spin-offs “1883” and “1923.”

Chad cut the 2021 movie “Those Who Wish Me Dead” (also written and directed by “1883” creator Taylor Sheridan.) He’s also edited the features “A Score to Settle” and “Beautiful Boy” and the TV series “Mayor of Kingston,” “The Proposal,” “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.” One of the things we’ll be discussing is his move from reality TV to scripted TV and film.

Today on Art of the Cut, Steven Spielberg’s long-time collaborators - Oscar-winner, Michael Kahn, ACE, and Sarah Broshar, discuss editing “The Fablemans.”

Sarah Broshar was nominated for an ACE Eddie for Spielberg’s “The Post.” Her credits also include “Ready Player One,” Pet Sematary,” and “West Side Story.”

One of Michael Kahn’s early jobs as an editor was cutting “Hogan’s Heroes.” Then he went on to cut at least 70 feature films. Some highlights: Close Encounters of the Third Kind for which he was nominated for an Oscar, ALL of the Indiana Jones movies for which he won an Oscar for Raiders, Poltergeist, The Goonies, The Color Purple, Fatal Attraction for which he was nominated for another Oscar, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List for which he won another Oscar, Saving Private Ryan - another Oscar win, Lincoln - another Oscar nomination, Ready Player One and West Side Story. And he was honored with the career Achievement Award by American Cinema Editors and probably has enough films since then to get the award again.

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with two of the four editors of Avatar: The Way of Water. Joining us on the call are Stephen Rivkin, ACE and John Re-FUE-ah, ACE.

Rivkin won an ACE Eddie for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He was also nominated for ACE Eddies for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for editing the first Avatar. Rivkin’s other credits include Fantastic Four, Ali, and My Cousin Vinny.

Refoua was also nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for the first Avatar. His other credits include Transformers: The Last Knight, The Magnificent Seven, and Balls of Fury, plus TV including Law and Order, Ally McBeal, Dark Angel, Reno 911, and CSI: Miami.

One of those not on the call is David Brenner, ACE. David has been a previous guest on Art of the Cut for Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Batman versus Superman. He won an Oscar for Born on the Fourth of July. His other credits include Transformers: Age of Extinction, Man of Steel, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Independence Day and The Patriot. Sadly for the entire editing community, David died earlier this year, during production of Avatar 2: Way of Water.

The other editor not on the call is director James Cameron, ACE. James won an Oscar and an ACE Eddie and was nominated for a BAFTA for editing Titanic. He was also given the ACE Golden Eddie for Filmmaker of the Year in 2000. And he was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, and an ACE Eddie for the first Avatar.

Today on Art of the Cut, Bob Ducsay, ACE discusses his work on Riann Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”

I’ve spoken to Bob before. His credits are lengthy and include The Mummy, Van Helsing, Jack and the Giant Slayer, and Godzilla. He has worked with Riann Johnson since Looper, which was released in 2012, also on Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and on their previous film, Knives Out. They’ve also worked together on the TV series Poker Face on Peacock TV.

Today on Art of the Cut, Oscar-winning editor Tom Cross, ACE on editing Damien Chazelle’s "Babylon."

I’ve been honored to have Tom on Art of the Cut five times before. Previously, we spoke about Joy, Hostiles, La La Land, First Man, and No Time to Die.

Tom was nominated for a BAFTA, and ACE Eddie and WON the Oscar for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Whiplash. He was nominated for an ACE Eddie for Joy. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an Oscar and WON an ACE Eddie for La La Land. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for First Man. And he was nominated for an ACE Eddie and WON a BAFTA for No Time to Die.

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with the two editors of Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animation version of “Pinocchio” - Holly Klein and Ken Schretzmann, ACE.

Holly Klein has been in the animation business since leaving college. She was an animator on Blues Clues and other kids TV shows and transitioned into editorial including work as an assistant editor on Coraline and Paranormal.

Ken Schretzmann began his career in live action feature film editorial back in the mid-80s and worked as an assistant editor on films like “Fried Green Tomatoes” “Get Shorty” and “Men In Black.” He edited the live action feature “The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer” before transitioning to animation editorial working on PIXAR films such as “Toy Story 2” “Monsters Inc” “Cars” and “Toy Story 3.”

Today, on Art of the Cut we’re talking about the film, The Banshees of Inisherin with Oscar-winning film editor, Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, ACE. 

Mikkel, who is from Denmark, joined us previously on Art of the Cut for the Sound of Metal, which won him the Oscar, and a BAFTA, and an ACE Eddie nomination. His other films include Beasts of No Nation, A Royal Affair, and The Outsider.

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with writer/director/editor Brett Morgen about his film “Moonage Daydream” about the iconic artist, David Bowie. This is no simple biopic. It’s a rich, philosophical montage connecting Bowie’s life and work with the culture that he is both affected by and speaking into. This interview came from numerous requests from Art of the Cut fans who loved the masterful editing of this film.

Brett Morgen is known for directing biographical documentaries like Jane - about the extraordinary life of Jane Goodall, Cobain: Montage of Heck, about the life of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, and The Kid Stays in the Picture, about the legendary Paramount producer, Robert Evans.

Morgen has also directed the pilot of the series When the Lights Go On, and episodes of 30 for 30 and Runaways among other feature film and TV projects.

Today on Art of the Cut, one of the most talked about films at the moment, the horror film, Barbarian, currently on HBOMax.

With us to discuss this film today is Art of the Cut's first-ever guest host: multi-Emmy-winning editor, Stephanie Filo, ACE. Steph has been a guest on the show before and I saw her post several times about this film on Twitter as a self-proclaimed "fan-girl" of the film, so I thought with her knowledge of editing and her love of the film, she'd be the perfect co-host. Also with me are the film's writer/director, Zach Cregger and the film's editor Joe Murphy. Joe and I have one degree of imdb separation as we've both co-edited with Jamie Kirkpatrick.

Stephanie Filo, ACE - my co-host - has edited A Black Lady Sketch Show, for which she won multiple Emmys and was nominated for an ACE Eddie. She also won a Peabody Award for her editing of the documentary Surviving R. Kelly. And edited the recent Dahmer series available on Netflix.

Zach Cregger is probably best-known as an actor in TV series like The Whitest Kids U Know, and Wrecked, and the feature films, Miss March and College.

Joe Murphy's credits as editor include the feature films Swallow, Don't Come Back from the Moon, We Summon the Darkness and The Sound and the Fury. Also, TV series like Kingpin and A Friend of the Family.

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk with the editors of Black Adam: John Lee and Mike Sale, ACE.

Michael's credits include Red Notice, Central Intelligence, We're The Millers, The Hangover II, and Bridesmaids (for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie).

John started his career as an assistant on the original Matrix movie. He was an additional editor on Inception and an associate editor on movies like Tenet, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Dunkirk, Spectre and Interstellar.

John was on a previous Art of the Cut episode to discuss his work on Dunkirk, with editor Lee Smith, ACE.

Today on Art of the Cut we’re talking with brothers, Sean and Ryan McIlraith. They are editors at Saturday Night Live and have edited many of the digital shorts that have gone viral over the last few years.

Sean’s been on the show as an editor since 2013, and has also cut episodes of That's My Time with David Letterman, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and segments of NBC’s New Years Eve show. He’s currently cutting a feature film with some SNL alums.

Ryan’s been at SNL since 2018 and has been an editor there since 2019. He’s also cut on That's My Time with David Letterman, It’s Bruno, and The Hardest Job in Sports. Both brothers also cut short films and TV spots.

Today on Art of the Cut we are speaking with Oscar-nominated editor Jay Cassidy, ACE, about editing David O. Russell's "Amsterdam."

Jay's been on Art of the Cut before for his editing of "A Star is Born" for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie. His first ACE Eddie win was for "An Inconvenient Truth." He received his first Oscar nomination for "Into the Wild." He was also nominated for an Oscar and an ACE Eddie for "Fury" and received another Oscar nomination, and an ACE Eddie win for "Silver Linings Playbook," along with another Oscar nomination for "American Hustle."

Other work includes "The King of Staten Island," "Birds of Prey," and "Joy," in a career that includes more than 30 feature films.