The 75 Best Edited Films Of All Time
The 87th Academy Awards are barely two weeks away, and on that night, one of five films will win the Oscar for Best Film Editing. Which will it be: “Whiplash,” “Boyhood,” “American Sniper,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” or “The Imitation Game”? Perhaps a more interesting question is, do you think any of them deserve a spot on the list of the 75 Best Edited Films of All Time, as selected by the Motion Picture Editors Guild?
That’s right, in the May-June issue of “Editors Guild Magazine,” guild members weighed in on the 75 best-edited films ever. It’s important to note that titles were chosen based on the strength of both their picture and sound editing. And granted, the list is over two and a half years old at this point (the votes were collected in 2012), so there’s a chance it might look a little different if it had come out more recently. Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger won for “Gravity" at last year’s Oscars, and William Goldenberg took home the statue for “Argo”...