AFT Awards: Best Film Editing

This is the tenth category of the 10th 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:
20th Century Women, American Honey, An Eye for Beauty, Elle, Equals, Fences, Game of Aces, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, In a Valley of Violence, Julieta, Lion, Moonlight, Pelé: Birth of a Legend, Snowden, The Birth of a Nation

The winner:
Hell or High Water (Jake Roberts) paced and framed its narrative as a taut thriller, slowly churning and assembling its intriguing and involving story.

Other nominees:
La La Land (Tom Cross)
Manchester by the Sea (Jennifer Lame)
Sully (Blu Murray)
Arrival (Joe Walker)