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positive Bewertung in Editor's Guild :

Our society and culture are so preoccupied with predictions that we seem relentlessly fixated on tea leaves at the expense of realizing what is actually going on. So it is important instead to focus on excellence and achievement. I think it has been a good year for movies, and therefore for film editing, because while there are exceptions, for the most part the best films display the best editing, and for that matter, the best edited are often the best movies. What makes a movie matter––rhythm, line, structure, momentum and the seamless suspension of disbelief––are all qualities conferred by editing. In the best sense, editors function not so differently from writers in the process of filmmaking.

Editing can be even more critical in lower-budget films and in documentaries and experimental films, although it is less often recognized. So, my list includes a mix of all kinds of films. For Best Film Editing: Rahman Bahrani, Chop Shop; Ghalia Lacroix, Secret of the Grain (with Camille Toubkis); Lee Smith, The Dark Knight; Robin Campillo, The Class; Stephen Schaffer, Wall-E; Robert Frazen, Synedoche, New York; Katsuhiko Ishii, The Taste of Tea; John Gurdebeke, My Winnipeg; Craig Baldwin, Bill Daniel, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Mock Up on Mu; Jim Clark, Happy-Go-Lucky; and Elliot Graham, Milk.

Also of note: Zach Staenberg, Valdis Oskarsdottir, Mongol; Claire Simpson, Stop-Loss, The Reader; Daniel Rezende, Blindness; David Tedeschi, Shine a Light; Pietro Scalia, Body of Lies; Roderick Jaynes, Burn After Reading; John Gilbert, The Bank Job; Lee Percy, Julie Carr, Noise; Michael Kahn, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; Dan Lebental, Iron Man; Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach, Gran Torino, Changeling; Barry Alexander Brown, Miracle at St. Anna; Pablo Zumarraga, Che; Andy Keir, Towelhead; Andy Grieve, Steven Hathaway, Dan Mooney, Standard Operating Procedure; Rafal Listopad, Katyn; Sloane Kevin, Taxi to the Dark Side; and Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire

In sound and sound effects, my list includes Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Wall-E; Paul Davies, Hunger; Sylvia Schedelbauer, Mock Up on Mu; Richard King, Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, The Dark Knight; Glenn Freemantle, Tom Sayers, Resul Pookutty, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Slumdog Millionaire; Leslie Shatz, Felix Bruce Andrew, Chris David, Gus van Sant, Milk; and Ben Burtt, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Myron Meisel has been a film critic for 40 years. He is a 30-year LAFCA member and founding film critic of the Los Angeles Reader and Chicago Reader, as well as the writer/producer of It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles; I'm a Stranger Here Myself: A Portrait of Nicholas Ray, and many other films.