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84th Academy Awards: Film Editing

Nominees include The Artist, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo and Moneyball

NOMINEES

This award began in 1934 and is closely watched because it is often seen as good indicator for Best Picture.

That’s because since 1981 every Best Picture nominee has also been nominated for editing, and nearly two thirds of the eventual Best Picture winners have also won the award for editing.

The nominations are voted on by members of the Editing Branch, which in 2008 consisted of 233 members.

Academy Rules state:

  1. A Reminder List of all eligible motion pictures shall be sent with a nominations ballot to all members of the Film Editors Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five productions.
  2. The five productions receiving the highest number of votes shall become the nominations for final voting for the Film Editing award.
  3. …only film editors who hold principal position credit(s) shall be considered eligible for the Film Editing award.
  4. Final voting for the Film Editing award shall be restricted to active and life Academy members.
  5. Only the principal, “above the line” editor(s) as listed in the film’s credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not generally eligible.

Intriguingly, this is the reverse of the BAFTA voting system where the winner is selected by members of the equivalent editing  branch (or ‘chapter’ as it called in the UK).

THE ARTIST

THE DESCENDANTS

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

HUGO

MONEYBALL

Official Oscar site
Explore previous winners of Best Editing at Wikipedia