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 ...

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

Arthur Schmidt, Oscar-Winning Film Editor on ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ Dies at 86. He cut 10 Robert Zemeckis movies, including the 'Back to the Future' trilogy and ...

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

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.

Film editor Joi Mcmillon struck gold on her first feature film: the Academy award–winning 'Moonlight'. She also snagged an Oscar nom herself, becoming the first Black woman to do so for editing.

Matthieu Laclau is a French editor who has been working in China and Taiwan since 2008. His collaboration with director Jia Zhangke in A Touch of Sin won him Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse ...