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Best Achievement in Film Editing
Weekly Commentary (Updated Nov. 16, 2023): It’s a breath of fresh air to see a race where (at the moment) two women are leading the pack in three-hour+ movies.
Jennifer Lame, who has never been nominated despite cutting two best picture nominated movies — “Marriage Story” (2019) and “Manchester by Sea” (2016) — is in the best position yet to land her inaugural mention for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
Her challenger is Martin Scorsese’s longtime collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker, the most awarded woman in the category’s history with three — “Raging Bull” (1980), “The Aviator” (2004) and “The Departed” (2006). She achieves the Herculean task of putting together the dense and beautifully made “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
If either woman won the race, they would be the first to take the category since Margaret Sixel for “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2016).
And just because your movie has a long runtime doesn’t mean the Academy will automatically check your name off.
That could benefit a movie like Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” edited by Emmy winner Nick Houy (HBO’s “The Night Of”), who has worked with the filmmaker on her previous best picture nominated movies — “Lady Bird” and “Little Women.” Sadly, Houy was snubbed for both. Perhaps the third time is the charm?
We’re also aware there’s a big push by studios with animated contenders to get their films recognized in this race, notably GKids’ “The Boy and the Heron” and Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” The latter could get very close.
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The submission deadline for general categories is Nov. 15, 2023. The preliminary shortlist for eight categories is from Dec. 14-18, with the results announcement dropping on Dec. 21. The Oscar nomination period will run from Jan. 11-16, 2024, with the official nominees named on Jan. 23.
The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10.
***The list below is not final and will be updated throughout the awards season.
And the Predicted Nominees Are:
- “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) — Jennifer Lame
- “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — Nick Houy
- “American Fiction” (MGM) — Hilda Rasula
- “Ferrari” (Neon) — Pietro Scalia
- “Air” (Amazon MGM Studios) — William Goldenberg
Next in Line
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) — Thelma Schoonmaker
- “The Holdovers” (Focus Features) — Kevin Tent
- “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Yorgos Mavropsaridis
- “Maestro” (Netflix) — Michelle Tesoro
- “The Iron Claw” (A24) — Matthew Hannam
Other Top-Tier Possibilities
- “Origin” (Neon) — Spencer Averick
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) — Michael Andrews
- “The Zone of Interest” (A24) — Paul Watts
- “May December” (Netflix) — Affonso Gonçalves
- “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) — Jon Poll
- “Creed III” (MGM) — Tyler Nelson, Jessica Baclesse
- “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) — Claire Simpson, Sam Restivo
- “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) — Kirk Baxter
- “Saltburn” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Victoria Boydell
- “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) — Laurent Sénéchal
Also In Contention
- “The Killer” (Netflix) — Kirk Baxter
- “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) — Curt Lobb
- “The Creator” (20th Century Studios) — Hank Corwin, Joe Walker, Scott Morris
- “Rustin” (Netflix) — Andrew Mondshein
- “All of Us Strangers” (Searchlight Pictures) — Jonathan Alberts
- “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.) — Craig Alpert
- “Priscilla” (A24) — Sarah Flack
- “John Wick Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) — Nathan Orloff
- “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) — Nick Moore, Oona Flaherty
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures) — Eddie Hamilton
All Eligible Titles (Alphabetized by Studio)**
- “The Creator” (20th Century Studios) — Hank Corwin, Joe Walker, Scott Morris
- “A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century Studios) — Lucy Donaldson
- “The Bikeriders” (20th Century Studios) — Julie Monroe
- “Beau is Afraid” (A24) — Lucian Johnston
- “Dream Scenario” (A24) — Kristoffer Borgli
- “The Iron Claw” (A24) — Matthew Hannam
- “Past Lives” (A24) — Keith Fraase
- “Priscilla” (A24) — Sarah Flack
- “You Hurt My Feelings” (A24) — Alisa Lepselter
- “The Zone of Interest” (A24) — Paul Watts
- “Air” (Amazon MGM Studios) — William Goldenberg
- “The Burial” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Lee Percy, Jay Cassidy
- “Cassandro” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Affonso Gonçalves, Yibrán Asuad, Sabine Hoffman
- “Foe” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Peter Sciberras
- “Saltburn” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Victoria Boydell
- “Fingernails” (Apple Original Films) — Yorgos Zafeiris
- “Flora and Son” (Apple Original Films) — Stephen O’Connell
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) — Thelma Schoonmaker
- “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) — Claire Simpson, Sam Restivo
- “Golda” (Bleecker Street) — Arik Lahav-Leibovich
- “Asteroid City” (Focus Features) — Barney Pilling
- “The Holdovers” (Focus Features) — Kevin Tent
- “The Boy and the Heron” (GKids) — Takeshi Seyama
- “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) — Curt Lobb
- “Monica” (IFC Films) — Paola Freddi
- “The Taste of Things” (IFC Films/Sapan Studio) — Mario Battistel
- “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) — Nick Moore, Oona Flaherty
- “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (Lionsgate) — Mark Yoshikawa
- “John Wick Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) — Nathan Orloff
- “Story Ave” (Kino Lorber) — Jasmin Way
- “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Marvel Studios) — Fred Raskin, Greg D’Auria
- “The Marvels” (Marvel Studios) — Catrin Hedström, Evan Schiff
- “American Fiction” (MGM) — Hilda Rasula
- “The Boys in the Boat” (MGM) — Tanya Swerling
- “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” (MGM) — James Herbert
- “Creed III” (MGM) — Tyler Nelson, Jessica Baclesse
- “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) — Laurent Sénéchal
- “Eileen” (Neon) — Nick Emerson
- “Ferrari” (Neon) — Pietro Scalia
- “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (Neon) — Daniel Garber
- “Origin” (Neon) — Spencer Averick
- “Fair Play” (Netflix) — Franklin Peterson
- “The Killer” (Netflix) — Kirk Baxter
- “Leave the World Behind” (Netflix) — Emma Rose Nardi
- “May December” (Netflix) — Affonso Gonçalves
- “Maestro” (Netflix) — Michelle Tesoro
- “Nyad” (Netflix) — Christopher Tellefsen
- “Rebel Moon” (Netflix) — Dody Dorn
- “Rustin” (Netflix) — Andrew Mondshein
- “Dungeons & Dragons” (Paramount Pictures) — Dan Lebental
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures) — Eddie Hamilton
- “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount Pictures) — Greg Levitan
- “Elemental” (Pixar) — Stephen Schaffer
- “All of Us Strangers” (Searchlight Pictures) — Jonathan Alberts
- “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Yorgos Mavropsaridis
- “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) — Kirk Baxter
- “The Equalizer 3” (Sony Pictures) — Conrad Buff
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) — Michael Andrews
- “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics) — To be announced
- “The Persian Version” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Abolfazl Talooni, JoAnne Yarrow
- “The Teachers’ Lounge” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Gesa Jäger
- “M3gan” (Universal Pictures) — Jeff McEvoy
- “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) — Jennifer Lame
- “She Came to Me” (Vertical Entertainment) — Sabine Hoffman
- “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — Nick Houy
- “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.) — Craig Alpert
- “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) — Jon Poll
- “Wonka” (Warner Bros.) — Mark Everson
- “The Little Mermaid” (Walt Disney Pictures) — Wyatt Smith
2022 category winner: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) — Paul Rogers
** indicates an unconfirmed release date in 2023 or could campaign in the lead or supporting categories. All release dates are subject to change.
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