The
contest for Best Film Editing is always closely associated with Best
Picture. Since editors and directors work pretty much hand in hand,
the editors branch of AMPAS tends to nominate based on quality of the
films as much as quality of just the editing. On top of that, the
film to win Best Film Editing is often well liked enough that it
almost always wins multiple categories (last year's victory for The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo being among the rare exceptions). And
since editing can be such an invisible art at times, the winning film
is usually required to have the “most” editing, rather than the
“best”, to earn the Academy's attention.
