BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC): TIE!
American Sniper
Joel Cox, ACE & Gary Roach, ACE
Boyhood
Sandra Adair, ACE
Gone Girl
Kirk Baxter, ACE
The Imitation Game
William Goldenberg, ACE
Nightcrawler
John Gilroy, ACE
Whiplash
Tom Cross
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):
Birdman
Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione, ACE
Guardians of the Galaxy
Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne, ACE & Craig Wood, ACE
Into the Woods
Wyatt Smith
Inherent Vice
Leslie Jones, ACE
Grand Budapest Hotel
Barney Pilling
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Big Hero 6
Tim Mertens
The Boxtrolls
Edie Ichioka, ACE
Lego Movie
David Burrows & Chris McKay
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):
Citizenfour
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Finding Vivian Maier
Aaron Wickenden
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Elisa Bonora
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION):
Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey: Standing Up in the Milky Way
John Duffy, ACE, Michael O’Halloran, Eric Lea
Pauly Shore Stands Alone
Troy Takaki, ACE & Joey Vigour
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History: Episode 3 / The Fire of Life
Erik Ewers
BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION:
Silicon Valley: “Optimal Tip to Tip Efficiency”
Brian Merken & Tim Roche
Veep: “Special Relationship”
Anthony Boys
Transparent: Pilot
Catherine Haight
BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
24: “10pm to 11am”
Scott Powell, ACE
Mad Men: “Waterloo”
Christopher Gay
Madam Secretary: “Pilot”
Elena Maganini, ACE & Michael Ornstein, ACE
Sherlock: “His Last Vow”
Yan Miles
The Good Wife: “A Few Words”
Scott Vickrey, ACE
BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
True Detective: “Who Goes There”
Affonso Goncalves
True Detective: “The Secret Fate of All Life”
Alex Hall
House of Cards: “Chapter 14”
Byron Smith
BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION:
Fargo “Buridan’s Ass”
Regis Kimble
Olive Kitteridge: “A Different Road”
Jeffrey M. Werner, ACE
The Normal Heart
Adam Penn
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: “Iran”
Hunter Gross
Deadliest Catch: “Lost At Sea”
Josh Earl, ACE & Johnny Bishop
Vice: “Greenland is Melting & Bonded Labor”
Joe Langford & Nick Carew
Cut scene from Gone girl http://sh.st/p0B4B
Totally frustrated. What is it that I saw in Interstellar that these numbnuts critics & guilds didn’t?
Man, did this thread spiral into madness!
To the one who started this: sure you must think Memento’s amazing editing can’t be compared to the editing of the contemporary films made by Hollywood greats, right?
Speaking of editing, it seems some folks are impressed by the flashiest work, the most quick-cutting.
But Sandra Adair, the editor of ”Boyhood,” had a challenge like no other editor: dealing with 12 years’ worth of footage. In an Indiewire interview, Adair, who won the L.A. Film Critics prize, explains shaping ”Boyhood” & giving it a sense of cohesiveness, and finding seamless transitions between the many years.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/how-boyhood-editor-sandra-adair-helped-shape-the-films-12-year-evolution-20140717
Now we’ve got the “Avengers was more worthy of Oscar contention than Gravity”. DONE! I’m done. I’m done done done done…done. I can’t deal with this sort of shit. It’s too early into the new year, too late in the Oscar season, an argument coming a year too late to get into it. Good night you minions of film, you defenders of celluloid.
“If Gone Girl wins this, maybe, just maybe I can start re-thinking Gone Girl could take the Oscar.”
Without the SAG ensemble nomination? Zero chances. It doesn’t even have the excuse Selma has, of not having been seen in time…
“Have you ever heard of Oprah???”
Have you ever heard of The Butler? But, seriously, Selma is in for BP, of course – it’s just not going to win.
“Anyways, I wouldn’t mind if Boyhood did steamroll the Oscars but I would consider it somewhat unfortunate when none of his ‘Before’ trilogy (all of which I enjoyed more than Boyhood) received its due treatment.”
Yeah, same here, more or less…
“I just have one last thing to say, for the record Pete Cuaron’s Potter is often considered the worst of the bunch among fans.”
Then those fans suck.
“I’ve always thought that Dark Knight had an atrocious final act”
Has it been established that this is unquestionably true? Does nobody else (besides me) disagree with this opinion? Someone who knows more about these things (screenwriting) than I? There must be someone!…
“I would wade in here but you’re basically all wrong in one way or another so I wouldn’t know where to start.”
Ha, Paddy!
“If Boyhood is a gimmick film, then I wish more people in Hollywood would agree to work for free, I wish more studios would front money without an expected return on their investment for 12 years, and I wish it wasn’t the only film of its kind in existence. In short, it’s a great gimmick. Better than a lazy, uninspired gimmick whipped up at the drop of a hat in order to make millions.”
This! Thanks, DaneM.
If Boyhood is a gimmick film, then I wish more people in Hollywood would agree to work for free, I wish more studios would front money without an expected return on their investment for 12 years, and I wish it wasn’t the only film of its kind in existence. In short, it’s a great gimmick. Better than a lazy, uninspired gimmick whipped up at the drop of a hat in order to make millions.
I would wade in here but you’re basically all wrong in one way or another so I wouldn’t know where to start.
Why can’t you all just go back to 2014 and leave me here by myself?
If any movie, it is Selma that is safe for Best Picture and best director given the macro environment nowadays! I dont know why some people present it as a small movie, underdog! Have you ever heard of Oprah??? She is promoting and working for that movie very much! The other day i was flying down to Puerto Rico on Delta and during all flight Selma promo apprared at the corner of my personal screen. So some people are really pushing hard for it and spend a lot of money. And i am sure they will pusheven harder with MLK day coming up. So it is in. So is Ava
May I offer you guys an advice?
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS (LCBaseball22).
*Linklater’s
Boyhood is a gimmick film as much, if not more, than The Artist was. And that Linklater’s ‘due’.
And for the sake of argument yes it could be said that Boyhood’s gimmick is not the first of its kind since Harry Potter did film the same actors over a similar period of time, but it wasn’t all one film of course. Anyways, I wouldn’t mind if Boyhood did steamroll the Oscars but I would consider it somewhat unfortunate when none of his ‘Before’ trilogy (all of which I enjoyed more than Boyhood) received its due treatment. The same would be true if Interstellar happened to steamroll the Oscars as I do not consider among Nolan’s best. Both directors are long overdue though and I would happy to see either one take the prize.
Well said Ryan. It’s human to make assumptions but also important to recognise them as such. Sid Ganis said in the post-statement Q&A “I would not be telling you the truth if I said the words ‘Dark Knight’ did not come up” so it definitely played some part in the decision, but just how big a part we will never know. And goddamn it the honorary Oscar thing still burns!
Yeah, “logical” arguments. Okayy. And straw man arguments? Is that your defense for every time someone disagreed with you? What if I actually loved Nolan and said his films were spectacular and loved Interstellar? Would you still be saying bullshit or is it your own bias for him that led you to have hissy fit?
It was a noble effort and it gave us 2 great years of BP nominees. But I think the Academy old guard disapproved. I think they wanted to gerrymander things back to the kind of BP nominees the old guard understood — except twice as many.
Precisely Ryan! Thank God, someone does get it…
@Richardskin – thank you for the particularly germane information about Birdman’s sequential style. That gives me the most illuminating observation about the editing category thus far. Also reiterates my belief so far that the Oscar race is primarily Boyhood -v- Birdman; with the former looking most likely to prevail for BP/BD, but Keaton could still be the front runner in a overcrowded category of talent.
Just saying, I’ve supported almost everything with facts and figures and made very logical arguments which have been met by the all too typical and familiar straw man arguments that I’ve heard thousands of times and yet hold no more weight than they did before, so I am left having to assume that you guys just don’t get it…
I may be the only one who thinks this way, Pete, but I don’t consider Gravity a sci-fi movie. Merely a drama about a shuttle mission that went horribly wrong. That may be why it won 7 Oscars, besides their hard-on for Cuaron.
Boo hoo, no one cares if you have a high IQ
Also, side effect of being an engineer with a superior IQ, nobody understands you…
I just have one last thing to say, for the record Pete Cuaron’s Potter is often considered the worst of the bunch among fans. Take that as you will…
Hey Nick. Don’t be knocking Dances with Smurfs for having an unoriginal story…
I’m lucky enough to be seeing Selma a couple days before its wide release. I will judge it’s “snub” at that point. But from what I’ve seen there’s nothing that would make it seem extraordinary in that department.
Having said that, I may be wrong because there always seems to be a movie that I love that’s NOT nominated for best editing that should be. Such as, “Wolf of Wall Street”, “Inception”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”… The latter being snubbed in practically every possible category IMO.
I just hope the film that wins IS the most impressively edited. At this point for me that would be “Birdman” (Having not seen ‘Boyhood” sadly) But to seamlessly edit a film that’s shot so perfectly that it actually pulls off it’s attempt at seeming like one long take is unbeatable to me. It’s as equally deserving as “Gravity” last year.
Are you serious? You just described yourself EXACTLY, to the T. Yes, please stay away from the discussion so you can shut the fuck up.
LCBA, you’re arguing that there is a genre bias by declaring that anything that doesn’t circle back to Harry Potter is an outlier, even the genre films that win Oscar ? But everyone else is wrong but you.
Your tiny little mind is not going to react to the Linklater train very well I suspect…
Of course people know what they are! They are calles PEOPLE’S CHOICE. Duh! And thats why I dont watch them because they are very biased. And actually, they do go with quality blockbusters and terrible films as well, you never seen them win anything?
LCBA, Gravity was a blockbuster film of high production and artistic quality (apart from a wobbly script). It won seven Oscars and nearly took the whole thing. What’s the problem again?
At this point, I’m surprised you aren’t arguing that Boyhood was just ripping off Harry Potter using the same actors for all eight films.
Anyways, I’m done with discussion; Pete and Nick and others are too thickheaded to see beyond their own genre biases and understand this logical reasoning.
The Avengers and The Hunger Games as BP nomination? No. They were very fun films and did make an impact to some extent. I was glad Avatar did not win BP, the visuals and direction were impressive but the story in itself was weak to me. Idc how many critics bowed down to it and I dont care what scores it had.
Nick, please stop it with the People’s Choice crap. Do people even know what the People’s Choice awards is? The Twilight films won back to back. It’s a straw man argument because the People’s Choice awards is a popularity content and does not consistently award QUALITY blockbuster films.
So, Paul, you argue that the academy hates genre/sci fi movies but then complain that Gravity winning seven Oscars is somehow a slap in the face to the Avengers?
The Hurt Locker wins were very deserved, it was a great film. Not Bigelow’s fault that Cameron actually called something Unobtanium.
Correction, five of the HP films match or exceed at least one LotR score. And of course box office wise they are pretty even as well.
Mockingjay for Best Picture????? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……
LCBA,
Let’s flip the argument a little bit. Would the fact that ROTK winning 11 Oscars despite your belief that the BFCA didn’t care for it as much as Harry Potter indicate that the critics had the genre bias and not the voters? After all, ROTK was the highest grossing film in the world that year.
Dbibby,
Changing the Oscar voting hoping that TV ratings would go up was still an utterly reactive move that diminished the awards more than not having actors from geek films walking the red carpet.
If people want to see awards that are in their favor specifically, go watch People’s Choice. Oscars are not required to satisfy the public. And while I like the expansion of BP, the only reason they did it was because people were whining that The Dark Knight missed the cut
The Avengers WAS a more worthy BP contender than Gravity, yes. You can’t deny how much of an impact it made; a true 4 quadrant hit, a cultural phenomenon; and to get SHUT OUT of every category was a slap in the face at the genre as a whole. But we fans of quality movies are used to it. Avatar got f’d over in the stampede to give Kathryn f’n Bigelow the first woman to win a director Oscar. Which in itself was a makeup call for 2003 when Sofia Coppola would’ve won for Lost in Translation …in any other year than ’03. Return of the King…it would’ve been professional seppuku for the Academy to snub it after all the hard work Peter Jackson and company put into it. We just gotta wait until these Academy voters move on into the afterlife and be replaced by new blood who are free of prejudice against sci-fi movies. To leave Mockingjay 1 and Interstellar out of the BP mix gives the impression 2014 was a crap year for movies. And that simply wasn’t true.
So it’s not silly or anything to cry foul when quality blockbusters and genre films are overlooked time and time again, regardless if a few have set a precedent…