AFT Awards: Best Film Editing

This is the tenth category of the 6th 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.

Runners-up:
Amour, Anna Karenina, The Avengers, Arbitrage, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Black Tulip, The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, Compliance, Detachment, Flight, Footnote, Frankenweenie, The Giant Mechanical Man, Grassroots, The Impossible, The Master, Perfect Sense, Prometheus, Quartet, La Rafle, Return, Ruby Sparks, Safety Not Guaranteed, The Sessions, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall , Your Sister's Sister

The winner:
Zero Dark Thirty (Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg) was a tense, well-paced thriller that told a 137-minute comprehensive, extensive story that remained thoroughly gripping throughout its entire run time.

Other nominees:
Argo (William Goldenberg)
Headhunters (Vidar Flataukan)
The Dark Knight Rises (Lee Smith)
Moonrise Kingdom (Andrew Weisblum)