AFT Awards: Best Film Editing

This is the tenth category of the 9th 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:
Beasts of No Nation, Creed, Ex Machina, Joy, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Mississippi Grind, Room, Son of Saul, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Steve Jobs, Tangerines, The Big Short, The Martian, The Revenant, The Walk, Wednesday 04:45, Woman in Gold, Z for Zachariah

The winner:
Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón and Pablo Barbieri Carrera) was an incredible assembly of stories that were not interconnected but related to the same themes, intertwined seamlessly and effectively to create one overarching narrative.

Other nominees:
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Joel Alexis)
Spotlight (Tom McArdle)
’71 (Chris Wyatt)