Today I've got a couple of post-production elements to add to my growing awards ballot. Starting things off is Best Film Editing. The temptation was great, but I resisted the urge to merely load this category with Best Picture nominees (this ain't the Oscars!), and tried to branch out where I could. The following five films are not only extremely well edited, but they also display a very wide cross-section of editing styles. Variety is the spice of film awards!
Check 'em out after the jump.
Boyhood (Sandra Adair)
Check 'em out after the jump.
Boyhood (Sandra Adair)
Adair's
dedicated distillation of 12-year process into a fluent few hours is a monumental
achievement. Sure, it's long, but also well assembled.
Edge
of Tomorrow (James Herbert)
Half
the fun of this underrated summer action film is in its construct. I
especially enjoy Herbert's playful use of montage.
Neighbors
(Zene Baker)
Baker's
comic timing manages to keep our guts busted for an hour and a half
with no reprieve. The party scenes are hysterically well cut!
Whiplash
(Tom Cross)
Throughout
the entire film – and especially the enrapturing finale – Cross
keeps impeccable time with the dizzying tempo of the music. He never rushes or drags.
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée, Martin Pensa)
Vallée
and Pensa's artful collage of images – whether fragmented or more
lingering and dreamlike – is the dramatic essence of this film.
Just missed:
Birdman (Douglas Crise, Stephen Morrione)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt)
Foxcatcher (Jay Cassidy, Stuart O'Neill, Stuart Levy)
Interstellar (Lee Smith)Last Days in Vietnam (Don Kleszy)