We won’t have a good grasp of the race for Best Film Editing until the nominations for the 71st ACE Eddie Awards are announced in late January. The critics aren’t provided much clarity with their awards season thus far with no film truly dominating with the groups that present an editing prize. West Side Story is currently the only film to nab more than one win.
You can likely depend on this category being dominated by films nominated for Best Picture. At present, my top 5 is filled with films I’m also predicting to receive nods for the big one, but there’s generally at least one outlier nomination here for a non-Best Picture contender. That may lie with something like No Time to Die. However, a Bond film has never been nominated in this category, so history is certainly against it.
BEST FILM EDITING PREDICTIONS:
1. Dune (Warner Bros.)
Joe Walker
2. West Side Story (20th Century Studios)
Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn
3. The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Peter Sciberras
4. Belfast (Focus Features)
Úna Ni Dhonghaile
5. tick, tick… BOOM! (Netflix)
Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
IN CONTENTION
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Hank Corwin
Flee (Neon)
Janus Billeskov Jansen
House of Gucci (MGM)
Claire Simpson
King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Pamela Martin
Licorice Pizza (MGM)
Andy Jurgensen (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Matrix Resurrections (Warner Bros.)
Joseph Jett Sally
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
Cam McLauchlin
No Time to Die (MGM)
Tom Cross and Elliot Graham
Spencer (Neon)
Sebastián Sepúlveda
The Tragedy of Macbeth (A24/Apple TV+)
Reginald Jaynes (Joel Coen)
