Picture Editor

“It’s incredible to realize that at the beginning of 2025, I had just started painting and drawing. And by the end of the year, I was published in the LA …

Before he became the lone American on the post team of the British financial drama “Industry,” picture editor Kyle Traynor took a winding path through prestige television.

“I wanted the movie to feel like New York in the late ‘90s.”

Picture editor Don Zimmerman, ACE, had an abundant sense of humor. He had to. Over the course of a career that stretched back to the late 1960s and continued through …

by Jack Giroux   Ben Baudhuin is always asking himself, “Is it satisfying? Is it entertaining?” The editor’s collaborations with filmmaker Christopher Landon are nothing but. The duo have worked …

“We redressed the whole set to look like a 1970s newsroom. Greg Daniels and Michael Koman based it on Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries — the black-and-white film look, the texture, the …

Walter Murch, ACE is a filmmaking phenomenon. Now in his early 80s, he has worked over the past six decades on many landmark films that have benefited from his insightful …

“As an editor, you always want to — in all your cuts — show the director that you know what movie you’re making.”

“A script is a plan, but what plays on screen may not match what reads on the page. You have to stay open to restructuring so the intended drama or …

The road to finishing “Wicked: For Good” was marked by circumstances few editors could imagine.