It’s always hard to predict the final five nominees for Best Film Editing, but even more so this season, given we won’t have the nominees from the American Cinema Editors until after the Oscar nominations. Likewise with the BAFTA noms, but we will have their longlists, which might give some indication how this race is shaping up.
We do have the nominations for the Critics Choice Awards, plus wins from the critics groups that award a prize for film editing. From those, we can likely deduce One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme, and F1 are our frontrunners for nominations. For the moment, I’m giving the fifth spot to Hamnet, but it’s not the most “obvious” editing work, so it could easily slip out for something like It Was Just an Accident, Frankenstein, or A House of Dynamite.
BEST FILM EDITING PREDICTIONS:
1. One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen (Warner Bros.) – CCA
2. Sinners – Michael P. Shawver (Warner Bros.) – CCA
3. Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein (A24) – CCA
4. F1 – Stephen Mirrione (Apple Original Films)
5. Hamnet – Chloé Zhao & Affonso Gonçalves (Focus Features) – CCA
IN CONTENTION:
Bugonia – Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Focus Features)
Frankenstein – Evan Schiff (Netflix)
A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter (Netflix) – CCA
It Was Just an Accident – Amir Etminan (NEON)
No Other Choice – Kim Sang-bum (NEON)
Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté (NEON)
Sirāt – Cristóbal Fernández (NEON)
Train Dreams – Parker Laramie (Netflix)
Wicked: For Good – Myron Kerstein (Universal Pictures)
