TCM Schedule for Friday, February 16, 2024: 31 Days of Oscar -- Film Editing
Film editing is focused on cutting and assembling film footage to tell a specific story. Throughout much of the history of the motion picture industry movies were shot and edited using film, which meant editing a film involved cutting and assembling actual film strips. Now most editing is done digitally, using programs like Adobe Premiere and Avid.
A film editor is responsible for overseeing the assembly of the film from beginning to end and works closely with the director and producers to produce a final version of the film that represents the vision of the filmmakers. The responsibilities of a film editor include picture editing, VFX, dialogue editing, sound design, SFX editing and music editing.
Above: Film director Mike Nichols (right) and film editor Sam O’Steen (left) working on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966.
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Thelma Schoonmaker,
2024 Oscar Nominee Best Achievement in Film Editing, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an Algerian-born American film editor, best known for her collaboration over five decades with director Martin Scorsese. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Film Awards, and four ACE Eddie Awards. She has been honored with the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1997, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2014, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019.
Schoonmaker started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and has edited all of his films since Raging Bull (1980). She has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, winning three—for Raging Bull, The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), both records. Schoonmaker is nominated for 2024's Killers of the Flower Moon.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Schoonmaker
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7:45 AM | Crazylegs (1953)
Story of the career of Los Angeles Rams football great, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch.
Dir: Francis D. Lyon | Cast: Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Vohs
1954 Nominee Oscar, Best Film Editing—Cotton Warburton
9:15 AM | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
1942 Nominee Oscar, Best Film Editing—Harold F. Kress
11:15 AM | The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaffv | Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
1950 Nominee Oscar, Best Film Editing—Frederic Knudtson
12:30 PM | Objective, Burma! (1945)
An elite team of paratroopers lands deep behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Burma - only to find its escape route blocked. Now, the brave survivors of the original mission must fight their way through 150 miles of enemy held jungle.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
1946 Nominee Oscar, Best Film Editing—George Amy
3:00 PM | Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed | Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
1948 Nominee Oscar, Best Film Editing—Fergus McDonell
5:00 PM | How the West Was Won (1962)
Panoramic Western following the daughter of a pioneering family from her youth in 1830 to old age.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker
1964 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Harold F. Kress
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8:00 PM | Bullitt (1968)
A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.
Dir: Peter Yates | Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
1969 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Frank P. Keller.
Film historians have called his chase sequence, created from footage shot over nearly five weeks, "revolutionary." Keller, with 24 total feature film credits, was nominated four times in the Best Film Editing category.
10:15 PM | The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
Baseball legend Lou Gehrig faces a crippling disease at the height of his success.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
1943 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Daniel Mandell
Mandell received two other film editing Oscars for work on The Apartment (1960) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
12:30 AM | Raging Bull (1980)
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Dir: Martin Scorsese | Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
1981 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Thelma Schoonmaker (see bio, above)
2:45 AM | The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin | Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
1940 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Paul Weatherwax
Weatherwax shared the 1957 Oscar for Best Film Editing with Gene Ruggiero for Around the World in 80 Days.
4:30 AM | Eskimo (1933)
An Eskimo family fights to survive harsh conditions in the frozen North.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Mala, Lotus, Joseph Sauers
1935 Winner Oscar, Best Film Editing—Conrad A. Nervig
Nervig essentially spent his entire career at MGM, amassing 81 film credits, and won a second film editing Oscar for King Solomon's Mines (1950)
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Trivia sourced from IMDb.com and wikipedia.com
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The first television commercial I ever created was shot on 35mm film and edited by splicing strips together. It was not new to me as I had edited several 8mm and Super 8mm student films using the same technique. Today I edit using Adobe's Premier Pro software. The advancements in 44 years are mind-boggling.