Film Editors Articles

Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde (top); Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (bottom) Dede Allen (right), best known for editing Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), died at her Los Angeles home on Saturday, April 17, days after suffering a stroke. She was 86 (as per the IMDb, 84). According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Allen was the first film editor to receive [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented "Editing for Animation" as part of its "Perspectives on Editing" series on Tuesday, September 29, at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Pictured above prior to the event (left to right): Nancy Frazen (Surf's Up), Kent Beyda (Scooby-Doo), Academy governor Mark Goldblatt (seated), Academy governor Donn Cambern (seated), Lois Freeman-Fox (Fantasia/2000), Kevin Nolting (Finding Nemo) and [...]

Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (lower photo) The art and craft of editing documentary films is the topic of the third installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-part seminar series "Perspectives on Editing," which will be held on Tuesday, October 6, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. "Perspectives on Editing: Editing for Documentary Films" [...]

Up by Pete Docter (top); Matt Groening's The Simpsons Movie directed by David Silverman (middle); Surf's Up by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck (bottom) The art and craft of editing animated films will be explored in the second installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-part seminar series "Perspectives on Editing" on Tuesday, September 29, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s [...]