9 Female Film Editors You Can Thank For Your Favorite Action Flicks1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen George Miller wrapped shooting on “Mad Max: Fury Road,” he knew that the 480 hours of film he’d accumulated would need special editorial attention – from his wife.
“I said, “˜You have to edit this movie, because it won’t look like every other action movie,'” Miller told Vanity Fair of his decision to put the massive, explosive story into the hands of film editor Margaret Sixel, Miller’s wife of 20 years.
The cutting room is where all the raw footage a director has shot gets trimmed, selected, and streamlined into a dynamic, two-hour movie; it’s the film editor’s job to pluck out the right shots and sequence them to make the story compelling.
It’s an important thing to remember at this moment, when all eyes are on Hollywood’s issues with female representation both onscreen and behind the camera. And while the need for more women in more jobs is getting some well-deserved attention, we want to also highlight the work of the women who are already there, making and shaping some of the best films out there from the darkness of the editing suite. Here are eight more ladies whose cinematic surgical skills you’ve almost certainly seen and appreciated.
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