Art of the Cut

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with Oscar-winning director, Laura Poitras, who also edited the documentary, Cover Up, with fellow editors, Amy Foote, ACE and Peter Bowman. Cover Up is available to watch now on Netflix.Laura’s documentaries have been nominated for three Oscars - for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, My Country, My Country, and CitizenFour, which won the Oscar. She’s also been...

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with Oscar-winning director, Raoul Peck and editor Alexandra Strauss. Both have been on Art of the Cut in the past for Raoul’s film, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found.Raoul is an Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning and Emmy-winning director/producer for his documentary I Am Not Your Negro. He was also a winner of Cannes Golden Eye Award for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found and a...

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with the three editors of the Netflix TV series, Black Rabbit: Vikash Patel, Cedric Nairn-Smith, and Kyle Reiter, ACE.Vikash is an Emmy winner for his work on Top Chef, and an Emmy nominee for Ozark. His other work includes TV series Revolution and The Sympathizer.Cedric Nairn-Smith has been on Art of the Cut in the past for Daredevil: Born Again. His other work...

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with Oscar-nominated editor, Sandra Adair, ACE, about the Richard Linklater film, Blue Moon.Sandra was last on Art of the Cut for her last collaboration with Linklater, Hit Man. Before that we spoke about her film Where’d you Go, Bernadette. She was nominated for an ACE Eddie for her work on School of Rock. And she was nominated for an Oscar and won an ACE Eddie...

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with multi-Emmy nominated editor Tricia Reidy, ACE about editing Ken Burns’ documentary series, The American Revolution.Tricia has edited for Ken Burns and Florentine Films since college starting with the documentary series The Civil War which she edited with Paul Barnes and Bruce Shaw. Also, Frank Lloyd Wright (Emmy nomination for editing), and The War, (also...

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with Oscar-nominated editor Tom Eagles, ACE, about editing the film Nuremberg.Tom was on Art of the Cut previously to talk about The Harder They Fall. Before that I spoke to Tom about his BAFTA and Oscar-nominated film - and WINNER of the 2020 ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature film, JoJo Rabbit.Tom has also edited films like Hunt for the Wilderpeople and TV series...

Today we’re speaking with Oscar-nominated Australian-born editor, Paul Machliss, ACE. We’ll be talking about his latest collaboration with director Edgar Wright, “The Running Man.”Paul last chatted on Art of the Cut when he cut Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” and before that for “Baby Driver” for which he won a BAFTA, and was nominated for an ACE Eddie and an Oscar. Paul was also nominated for an...

Today on Art of the Cut, we speak with multi-Oscar-nominated editor, Myron Kerstein, ACE, about editing Jon Chu’s Wicked for Good.Chu and Kerstein last worked together - of course - on Wicked. And before that on tick, tick… BOOM. Before THAT they collaborated on In the Heights. And before THAT on Crazy Rich Asians - and we’ve talked about ALL of those films here on Art of the Cut.Kerstein’s...

Today, we’re talking to Evan Schiff, ACE about editing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein which is available now on Netflix.Evan’s feature editing career includes Nobody, Southside With You, John Wick Chapter 2 AND Chapter 3, and Birds of Prey, among others.Today: A discussion of the importance of editing speed while collaborating, the advantage of having the time for many screenings, and how...

Today on Art of the Cut, we’re talking with Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE, the editor of Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, Bugonia.Yorgos has been on Art of the Cut before for Poor Things and for The Favourite for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA, and won an ACE Eddie. He was also an ACE Eddie nominee for The Lobster. In addition he edited The Killing of a Sacred Deer among over 100 other...