Film editing is the art of connecting shots, scenes, and sequences to pull a movie’s story together. Shot length, camera angle emphasis, scene order and transitions, and sound design all impact ...

But film editing could not have been invented without the invention of film itself. There would be no film without film editing. And yet, its practitioners don't often grace the cover of magazines.

Jason Gallagher: I feel like I’ve been an editor since college. I went to film school at Boston University and got a job at MTV soon after. They let me edit my own shows eventually. I always had ...

Alex O’Flinn is the recipient of the 2014 Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship. He most recently edited “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film ...

His latest film, Jarhead, is based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling book about the Persian Gulf War.Murch discussed that film, and his job as editor, in a New York postproduction ...

A film editor will take the footage a director has shot each day and fit together the narrative of the story. It isn’t what some people commonly think, simply cutting out errors from the footage.

Film editors, by contrast, are more emotionally removed, so they can be ruthless about cutting out unnecessary scenes. Fred Raskin, the film editor on ...

John F. Burnett, the veteran film editor who cut Grease, And Justice for All and Murder by Death and films for directors ...

Best Film Editing. This category has always had a cozy relationship to Best Picture, and this year followed suit, with all five movies here also nominated for the top prize.

The film editor Dorothy Spencer in 1938. “You get so involved in what you’re doing, in the challenge of creating — because I think cutting is very creative,” she once said.