BAM Award Winners: Best Editing
This is perhaps the most crucial category to the filmmaking process that was absent from these awards for a large period of time. However, until one edits, learns to edit both in theory and in practice it is very difficult to start to interpret the edit of a film. The editing choice ultimately is always an aesthetic choice because the technical aspects, what was removed, how scenes were improved due to judicious cuts or how the whole was bettered by losing a scene or a shot can only truly be evaluated if one has seen all the footage. Nevertheless, it’s here and here to stay. The decision in this category is very difficult year after year. Here are the films that have shown themselves to be the most impressive thus far.
2020 Claudia Castello, Bruno Lasevicius, and Suzanne Spangler Abe
2019 Nicholas Monsour Us
2018 Andrew Wehde Eighth Grade
2017 Jason Ballantine It
2016 Brett Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski O.J.: Made in America
2015 Margaret Sixel Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 Bernard Beets The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
2012 Joe Bini We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011 Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber and Mark Yoshikawa The Tree of Life
2010 Trevor Waite Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983
2009 Mark Day Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2008 Thomas Alfredson and Daniel Jonsäter Let the Right One In
2007 Chris Dickens Hot Fuzz
2006 Jim Mol The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
2005 Andy Blumenthal and David Finfer Waiting…
2004 Steven Weisberg Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2003 Peter Boyle The Hours
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