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Chicago Film Critics Association Award For Best Editing
The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is an association of professional film critics, who work in print, broadcast and online media, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The organization was founded in 1990 by film critics Sharon LeM ... since 2012. Winners 2010s 2020s References See also * Academy Award for Best Film Editing {{CFCA Awards Chron Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Awards established in 2012 Film editing awards ...
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Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is an association of professional film critics, who work in print, broadcast and online media, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The organization was founded in 1990 by film critics Sharon LeMaire and Sue Kiner, following the success of the first Chicago Film Critics Awards given out in 1988. The association comprises 60 members. Since 1989, the CFCA has given out annual awards that recognize the best films in a variety of categories. These awards are noted in the established print media such as '' Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''. The association has also hosted the annual Chicago Critics Film Festival since 2013, which intends to bring a number of feature and short films to a larger audience. Membership The Chicago Film Critics Association restricts its membership to professional film critics, who have been employed in the media as a "critical voice or staff authority" on the subject of the cinema for six months. App ...
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Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger (born 13 January 1974) is a British film editor. Honours In 2014 he was elected as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also as a member of the American Cinema Editors. In July 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Solent University. In 2021 he became a member of the British Film Editors (BFE). Filmography Awards and nominations 2014 * Academy Award for Best Film Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) * American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic – ''Gravity'' (nominated) * BAFTA Award for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (nominated) * Saturn Award for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) 2013 * Alliance of Women Film Journalists for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) * Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) * Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) * Las Vegas Film Critics Society for Best Editing – ''Gravity'' (won) * Los Angele ...
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Tom Cross (film Editor)
Tom Cross is an American television and film editor. He is known for his collaborations with Damien Chazelle including '' Whiplash'' (2014) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing as well as ''La La Land'' (2016), and '' First Man'' (2018). He is also known for his work on David O. Russell's '' Joy'' (2015), the musical ''The Greatest Showman'' (2016), Scott Cooper's '' Hostiles'' (2017), and Cary Joji Fukunaga's '' No Time to Die'' (2021). Career He began his career in 1997 as an assistant editor, contributing to such diverse projects as '' We Own the Night'' (2007), '' Crazy Heart'' (2009), '' The Switch'' (2010) and the Primetime Emmy Award-winning drama series '' Deadwood''. He came to worldwide prominence in 2015 when he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing, BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and Academy Award for Best Editing (among other honors) for his work on the acclaimed film '' Whiplash'' (2014). and reunited with writer/director Damien ...
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Whiplash (2014 Film)
''Whiplash'' is a 2014 American independent psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist. The film follows the ambitious music student and jazz drummer Andrew Neiman (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor Terence Fletcher (Simmons) at the fictitious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. The film was produced by Bold Films, Blumhouse Productions, and Right of Way Films. Sony Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights, releasing the film under its Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films banners for its North American and international releases, respectively. Chazelle finished writing the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a "very competitive" jazz band. Soon after, Right of Way Films and Blumhouse Productions helped Chazelle turn 15 pages of the script into an 18-minute short film, also titled '' Whiplash''. The short film received a ...
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Thelma Schoonmaker
Thelma Schoonmaker (; born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, known for her over five decades of work with frequent director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film '' Who's That Knocking at My Door'' (1967), and has edited all of Scorsese's films since ''Raging Bull'' (1980). Schoonmaker has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for ''Raging Bull'', '' The Aviator'' (2004), and ''The Departed'' (2006), which were all Scorsese-directed films. Early life Schoonmaker was born on January 3, 1940, in Algiers (then part of French Algeria), the daughter of American parents, Thelma and Bertram Schoonmaker. Bertram, descended from the New York Dutch Schoonmaker political family, was employed as an agent of the Standard Oil Company and worked extensively abroad. The Schoonmakers were evacuated to the United States shortly after the Fall of France during the Second World War. In 1941, the ...
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The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013 Film)
''The Wolf of Wall Street'' is a 2013 American epic biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. It recounts Belfort's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall. Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer of the film, stars as Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his wife, Naomi Lapaglia, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham, who tries to take Belfort down. Rights for Belfort's memoir were secured in 2007 by DiCaprio and Warner Bros. and with Scorsese set to direct, but content restrictions stalled production. The project was later greenlit under an independent production house Red Granite Pictures. Filming took place in late 2012 in New York City and w ...
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David Lowery (director)
David Lowery (born December 26, 1980) is an American filmmaker. His original work ''Ain't Them Bodies Saints'' (2013), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he directed the Disney film ''Pete's Dragon'' (2016), a live-action film which he had co-written. It was a new work loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name. In 2017, he directed the drama film '' A Ghost Story'' and in 2018, he directed '' The Old Man & the Gun''. In 2021, he directed the fantasy epic '' The Green Knight''. Early life Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 26, 1980,Mead, Rebecca (January 2012). "Into the Deep". '' Allure''. pp. 103–106. David Lowery is the eldest of nine children born to Madeleine and Mark Lowery. When he was seven, his family moved to Irving, Texas for his father's work. Lowery attended Irving High School. At the age of 19, Lowery wrote and directed his ...
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Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth (born 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, composer, and actor. He is the writer, director, and co-star of the prize-winning science-fiction film ''Primer'' (2004), which was his debut feature. His second film, ''Upstream Color'' (2013), was an experimental science-fiction film which he wrote, directed, produced, edited, designed, and starred in. He also composed the scores for both films. In recognition of Carruth's idiosyncratic and, at times, bizarre filmmaking technique, director Steven Soderbergh told '' Entertainment Weekly'', "I view Shane as the illegitimate offspring of David Lynch and James Cameron." Early life Carruth was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1972. He attended Stephen F. Austin State University as a mathematics major. Before becoming a filmmaker, he worked as a developer of flight-simulation software. Career ''Primer'' For his independent film ''Primer'', Carruth wrote, directed, produced, and performed one of the tw ...
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Upstream Color
''Upstream Color'' is a 2013 American experimental science fiction film written, directed, produced by, and starring Shane Carruth. The film is the second feature directed by Carruth, following his 2004 debut ''Primer''. It stars Amy Seimetz, Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, and Thiago Martins. In the film, the behaviors of two people are unwittingly affected by a complex parasite that has a three-stage life cycle. Plot The film begins with a man (mentioned in the credits as the "Thief") who seems to be harvesting a type of larva for the peculiar effects it has on the human mind when ingested. At a club, Kris (Amy Seimetz) is tasered and is kidnapped by the Thief. He makes her swallow the larva, which induces a sort of hypnotic susceptibility, causing an extremely suggestible mental state the Thief exploits. He uses an elaborate set of distractions, such as getting her to create a paper chain where each link features a transcription from the book ''Walden,'' to distract her while per ...
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Crispin Struthers
Crispin Struthers is a two-time Oscar-nominated film editor. His first nomination was at the 85th Academy Awards for the film ''Silver Linings Playbook''. Struthers and his fellow film editors are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 2013 film ''American Hustle ''American Hustle'' is a 2013 American historical black comedy crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Chris ...''. References External links * Living people Film editors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Film-editor-stub ...
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Jay Cassidy
Jay Cassidy is an American film editor with more than 30 credits since 1978. Cassidy began his career in the 1970s working on documentaries and political advertising. He has had a notable collaboration with Sean Penn, having edited all of the films directed by Penn. Early in his career, Cassidy edited the documentary film ''High Schools'' (1984) that was directed by Charles Guggenheim; more recently he has edited several documentaries by Guggenheim's son Davis Guggenheim, including '' An Inconvenient Truth'' (2006). Cassidy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and for an ACE Eddie Award for '' Into the Wild'' (directed by Sean Penn - 2007). In 2012, he was nominated for his second Academy Award for Best Film Editing for '' Silver Linings Playbook'', which won the Eddie and the Satellite Award for Best Editing. Cassidy was nominated for a third Academy Award for ''American Hustle'' (directed by David O. Russell - 2013), and again won the Eddie for that f ...
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Alan Baumgarten
Alan Baumgarten (born February 1, 1957) is an American film editor. He frequently collaborates with directors Jay Roach and Ruben Fleischer having edited four of their feature films. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, for ''American Hustle'' (2013), together with co-editors Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers, and ''The Trial of the Chicago 7'' (2020). Filmography Television * ''Eerie, Indiana ''Eerie, Indiana'' is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to December 09, 1993. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creati ...'' (1991) References External links * American film editors Living people Film people from Los Angeles 1957 births Primetime Emmy Award winners {{US-film-editor-stub ...
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