For picture editor Spencer Averick, editing the 2014 film Selma was a triumphant career achievement of many firsts; the film was nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Picture and Best Song (“Glory”), winning the latter — and it was his first job as a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. […]
“We hope that our industry will be able to celebrate other landmarks of diversity in the days ahead.” […]
He was the recipient last October of the Guild’s Fellowship and Service Award, given to professionals who have advanced the interests of post-production and the labor movement. […]
The film is about a campaign to organize workers in a union, while exploring hip-hop culture, the obstacles to black success in America, how capitalism crushes the soul, and how corporations have a dark secret to hide. […]
“The streaming companies are excelling like crazy,” Repola said during the Zoom call. “Movies and TV shows will continue to be made … It will happen.” […]
“I’ve always wished someone would invent a device that I could put on my head and think about how the film should sound.” […]
First African American to be nominated for an Oscar in Film Editing for “Midnight Cowboy” […]
“We were continually changing the picture, changing the scene, because sometimes we didn’t even have two continuous shots together.” […]
Black inventors and innovators who helped make film, television and digital media possible. […]
Credits include unscripted and scripted series, currently “9-1-1: Lone Star” […]
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