Art of the Cut

Today on Art of the Cut, Ken Eluto, ACE, Jane Rizzo, ACE and William Henry, ACE discuss cutting Succession, which has earned all three of them Emmy nominations for separate episodes this year. Ken landed his first Emmy nomination in 1996 for American Experience. He was also nominated for an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for 30 Rock, then WON an Emmy and ACE Eddie the following year for 30 Rock again. More...

Today on Art of the Cut, editor Stephanie Filo, ACE. Stephanie just hit the Emmy trifecta: she was nominated for three Emmys for three different series! She was nominated for Outstanding Editing in a Variety Program for A Black Lady Sketch Show along with editors Malinda Zehner Guerra, and Taylor Mason. Also in the Variety Programming category, she's nominated for History Of The World Part II...

Today we’re talking with the editors of the TV series, The White Lotus which has been nominated for Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Picture Editing in a Drama Series category. Heather Persons, ACE has been nominated for her episode, “Abductions” and John Valerio, ACE has been nominated for his episode “Arrivederci.” Heather has been nominated three times before for Emmys, three times for ACE Eddies...

Today we’re talking with Nena Erb, ACE about the film Joy Ride. Nena has won two Primetime Emmys for her work on Project Greenlight and Insecure. She also has three ACE Eddie nominations - two for Insecure, and one for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Her other work includes editing Justin Bieber’s Believe, the TV series Little America, and the feature film Little Owl, which also just released.

Today we’re talking with some of the editing team from the biggest pinkest movie to hit screens in a while - Barbie. With us for this conversation are editor Nick Houy, ACE… his first assistant editor, Nick Ramirez,  apprentice editor, Maya Rivera, and post PA, Abdul Ndadi. Nick Huoy has been on Art of the Cut before for director Greta Gerwig’s Little Women.  Nick started out as an apprentice to N...

Today we’re talking with Eddie Hamilton, ACE about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.  Eddie was last on Art of the Cut to discuss Top Gun Maverick - which was the most listened to episode of the last year. He’s also talked with Art of the Cut about Mission Impossible: Fallout,  Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, and Kingsman: Secret Service. I think that’s enough eno...

Today we’re talking with Kelly Matsumoto, ACE and Dylan Highsmith about editing Fast X. Dylan has worked his way up, mainly as a VFX Editor, including on Fast Five.  And has been an editor on Fast and Furious 6, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, and Fast 9. He’s also edited Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Star Trek Beyond. Kelly’s experience with the Fast series goes back to before 2006 with The Fast...

Today we’re talking with Oscar nominee and multiple BAFTA nominee Barney Pilling, ACE about editing Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. Barney has been nominated for BAFTAs for his editing of Spooks, Life on Mars, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. He was also nominated for a BAFTA and won an ACE Eddie for The Grand Budapest Hotel.  His other work includes Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Annihilation, and Suffrag...

Today we’re talking with Michael Andrews, ACE, editor of the incredible animated feature, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Anyone who has seen this has to just be in awe of how something like this got made - and Mike’s gonna shed some light on that for us. Mike’s credits include editing Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Megamind,...

Today we’re talking with three of the editors of the Disney Plus series, Andor - John Gilroy, ACE. Yan Miles, ACE and Simon Smith. John Gilroy, ACE is an editor and also a producer on the series. He was nominated for a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie for the feature film Michael Clayton. And he was nominated for an ACE Eddie and a BAFTA for Nightcrawler. His feature work includes Rogue One: A Star Wars Sto...

Today we’re talking with two of the editors of the TV series, The Last of Us - Timothy Good, ACE and Emily Mendez. Tim edited the feature Dead Man Down and numerous TV series including The Umbrella Academy, The Resident and others. Emily Mendez was an assistant editor on all 9 episodes of The Last of Us and editor for four of them. She was an assistant editor on TV series like The Umbrella Academy...

Today is the 400th episode of Art of the Cut. We’re talking with two of the editors of the TV series, Wednesday. They are Jay Prychidny, CCE and Ana Yavari. Jay joined us just a few months ago to chat about editing Scream 6. Jay has won or been nominated for numerous Canadian Cinema Editors Awards for projects including The Alienist, Orphan Black, Canada’s Next Top Model, The Next Step, and Lost a...

Today we’re talking with the editors of the TV series, Poker Face . Those editors are Bob Ducsay, ACE, Glenn Garland, ACE, Paul Swain, and Shaheed Qaasim. Bob’s been on the show several times, most recently for the two Knives Out mysteries. He also edited Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, Godzilla King of the Monsters, and Rampage among many others. Glenn is a fellow editing podcaster himself. He...

Today we’re talking with the editor of the TV series, Star Trek: Picard . Discussing season 3, is editor Drew Nichols, who is also an associate producer on the show. Drew started off in reality and documentary programming about 15 years ago and transitioned into scripted as an assistant editor on great shows like Mad Men and True Detective. He moved into the scripted  television editors chair on 1...

Today we’re talking with Harry Yoon, ACE, Laura Zempel, Jordan Kim, and Nat Fuller about the TV series Beef. This is the first in a series of six Art of the Cut episodes leading up to Emmy voting. Upcoming shows will feature editors from Andor, Picard, Poker Face, The Last of Us, and Wednesday. Harry Yoon has been on Art of the Cut many times before, most recently for the film, Minari, but also fo...

Today on Art of the Cut, editors Fred Raskin, ACE and Greg D'Auria discuss the editing of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3. Fred’s been a guest on Art of the Cut for Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight. He was also a guest for Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood . He was on for the previous Guardians movie and for The Suicide Squad. He also edited the first Guardians movie, D...

Today we’re talking with Langdon Page, one of the two editors on the  Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary, Navalny . For which the editors won a British Film Editors award and were nominated for an ACE Eddie. Langdon’s credits include documentaries including Detainee 1, The Cost of Silence, and Maplethorpe: Look at the Pictures . He’s also edited the feature film Mary. Navalny was co-edited with M...

Today we’re speaking with Oscar-winning editor, William Goldenberg, ACE about his work on the feature film Air, directed by his long-time collaborator, Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Jason Bateman.  Goldenberg has been a guest on Art of the Cut numerous times for films including The Outfit, News of the World, 22 July, Detroit, and Live by Night.  He was nominated for...

Today we’re talking with John Axelrad, ACE and his additional editor – and first assistant editor - Jared Simon about the film Chevalier. John and I have spoken several times through the years on Art of the Cut including for Antebellum, Ad Astra and Lost City of Z. Other feature work includes Papillon and Krampus. TV work includes Hack and Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion. Jared’s assistant edito...

Today we’re talking with Dan Schalk, ACE about editing “A Good Person” which was directed by Zach Braff and stars Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman. Dan has moved from LA to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which is where he edited this film, so we chatted from only a few miles away from each other - me in Chicago. Dan’s filmography includes - among others - "The Superhero Movie," "She’s Out o...

Today we’re speaking with Nathan Orloff about John Wick 4. Nate was a guest on Art of the Cut previously for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. His other work includes the feature film "Plan B," and work as an additional or associate editor on "Samaritan," "The Front Runner” “Tully,” and “10 Cloverfield Lane.”

Today we’re speaking with Jamie Kennedy who recently won the ACE Eddie for Best Edited non-theatrical Feature film for her work on Weird: The Al Yankovich Story. She’s edited the feature film Blueprint, and TV shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty, On My Block, Love, Victor, Die Hart and Flipped. She was also an editor on Modern Family after several seasons on the show as an assistant editor.

Today we’re speaking with Jay Prychidny, CCE about editing Scream 6. Jay has won or been nominated for numerous Canadian Cinema Editors Awards for projects including The Alienist, Orphan Black, Canada’s Next Top Model, The Next Step, and Lost and Found Music Studios. He also won a BAFTA for The Next Step. His other credits include the TV series Snowpiercer, Altered Carbon, and Wednesday.

Today we’re speaking with Chris Tellefsen, ACE about his ACE Eddie-nominated editing of The Menu. Chris has been a guest on Art of the Cut several times before for The Many Saints of Newark: A Soprano’s Story, also for A Quiet Place and Assassin’s Creed. He also worked on Joy, which was a previous Art of the Cut interview. Chris was nominated for TWO ACE Eddie in 2000 - for Analyze This and Man on...

Today on the ninth year anniversary of Art of the Cut, Adam Gerstel and Laura Jennings discuss Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Laura has had a long career as a VFX editor on films like Sherlock Holmes, John Carter, Skyfall, and Pan. She’s also edited features including Edge of Tomorrow, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Adam has been a guest on Art of the Cut before with The Lion King and The M...