AFT Awards: Best Film Editing

This is the tenth category of the 4th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Blue Valentine, City of Your Final Destination, Daybreakers, Dogtooth, The Dry Land, Fish Tank, The Girl on the Train, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Handsome Harry, Kisses, The King's Speech, The Losers, Mother, Ondine, Red Riding: 1974, Red Riding: 1980, Red Riding: 1983, Shutter Island, Toy Story 3

Runners-up:
127 HOURS
THE FIGHTER
DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM
SOMEWHERE
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

The winner:
Inception (Lee Smith) was mesmerizingly assembled, combining multiple realities and somehow sensibly layering them on top of one another.

Other nominees:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Anne Osterud)
The Social Network (Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall)
A Prophet (Juliette Welfling)
Micmacs (Hervé Schneid)