One Category at a Time: Editing

It used to be you could always count in the ACE winner to guide your prediction for Best Film Editing, but in the four years since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo stunned on Oscar night, this has become the hardest craft category to gauge. Sometimes they go with the Best Picture winner, sometimes the presumed Best Picture runner-up, sometimes something whose editing is just more conspicuous.

Review - The Ides of March

One only need know the title of George Clooney's The Ides of March – aptly named for the day of a fateful backstabbing – to suspect that this political drama is less to do with public policy and more to do with the cutthroat chess match that plays itself out on the other side of the curtain. As designed by Clooney and his co-writers Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon (the latter of whom penned the original play), the actual issues are peripheral as seen from the vacuum in which jaded campaign strategists ply their splenetic trade; people are played against each other, secrets divulged, secrets kept, trust severed, but all with a purpose. All for the cause of The Campaign.