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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Weekly Commentary (Updated March 7, 2024): Jennifer Lame’s incredible editing on “Oppenheimer” will mark the first solo woman to win the category since Margaret Sixel for “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015). It will also be the first three-hour movie to win since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003).
Will Win: “Oppenheimer” (Jennifer Lame)
Could Win: “Anatomy of a Fall” (Laurent Sénéchal)
Should Win: “Anatomy of a Fall”
Should have been here: “Air” (William Goldenberg) and “The Iron Claw” (Matthew Hannam)
Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10.
And the Nominees Are:
Eligible Titles (Alphabetized by Studio)**
- “The Creator” (20th Century Studios) — Hank Corwin, Joe Walker, Scott Morris
- “A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century Studios) — Lucy Donaldson
- “Beau is Afraid” (A24) — Lucian Johnston
- “Dream Scenario” (A24) — Kristoffer Borgli
- “The Iron Claw” (A24) — Matthew Hannam
- “Past Lives” (A24) — Keith Fraase
- “Priscilla” (A24) — Sarah Flack
- “You Hurt My Feelings” (A24) — Alisa Lepselter
- “The Zone of Interest” (A24) — Paul Watts
- “Air” (Amazon MGM Studios) — William Goldenberg
- “The Burial” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Lee Percy, Jay Cassidy
- “Cassandro” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Affonso Gonçalves, Yibrán Asuad, Sabine Hoffman
- “Foe” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Peter Sciberras
- “Saltburn” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Victoria Boydell
- “Fingernails” (Apple Original Films) — Yorgos Zafeiris
- “Flora and Son” (Apple Original Films) — Stephen O’Connell
- “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) — Thelma Schoonmaker
- “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) — Claire Simpson, Sam Restivo
- “Golda” (Bleecker Street) — Arik Lahav-Leibovich
- “Asteroid City” (Focus Features) — Barney Pilling
- “The Holdovers” (Focus Features) — Kevin Tent
- “The Boy and the Heron” (GKids) — Takeshi Seyama
- “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) — Curt Lobb
- “Monica” (IFC Films) — Paola Freddi
- “The Taste of Things” (IFC Films/Sapan Studio) — Mario Battistel
- “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) — Nick Moore, Oona Flaherty
- “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (Lionsgate) — Mark Yoshikawa
- “John Wick Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) — Nathan Orloff
- “Story Ave” (Kino Lorber) — Jasmin Way
- “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Marvel Studios) — Fred Raskin, Greg D’Auria
- “The Marvels” (Marvel Studios) — Catrin Hedström, Evan Schiff
- “American Fiction” (MGM) — Hilda Rasula
- “The Boys in the Boat” (MGM) — Tanya Swerling
- “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” (MGM) — James Herbert
- “Creed III” (MGM) — Tyler Nelson, Jessica Baclesse
- “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) — Laurent Sénéchal
- “Eileen” (Neon) — Nick Emerson
- “Ferrari” (Neon) — Pietro Scalia
- “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (Neon) — Daniel Garber
- “Origin” (Neon) — Spencer Averick
- “Fair Play” (Netflix) — Franklin Peterson
- “The Killer” (Netflix) — Kirk Baxter
- “Leave the World Behind” (Netflix) — Emma Rose Nardi
- “May December” (Netflix) — Affonso Gonçalves
- “Maestro” (Netflix) — Michelle Tesoro
- “Nyad” (Netflix) — Christopher Tellefsen
- “Rebel Moon” (Netflix) — Dody Dorn
- “Rustin” (Netflix) — Andrew Mondshein
- “Dungeons & Dragons” (Paramount Pictures) — Dan Lebental
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures) — Eddie Hamilton
- “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount Pictures) — Greg Levitan
- “Elemental” (Pixar) — Stephen Schaffer
- “All of Us Strangers” (Searchlight Pictures) — Jonathan Alberts
- “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Yorgos Mavropsaridis
- “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) — Kirk Baxter
- “The Equalizer 3” (Sony Pictures) — Conrad Buff
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) — Michael Andrews
- “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics) — To be announced
- “The Persian Version” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Abolfazl Talooni, JoAnne Yarrow
- “The Teachers’ Lounge” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Gesa Jäger
- “M3gan” (Universal Pictures) — Jeff McEvoy
- “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) — Jennifer Lame
- “She Came to Me” (Vertical Entertainment) — Sabine Hoffman
- “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — Nick Houy
- “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.) — Craig Alpert
- “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) — Jon Poll
- “Wonka” (Warner Bros.) — Mark Everson
- “The Little Mermaid” (Walt Disney Pictures) — Wyatt Smith
2022 category winner: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) — Paul Rogers
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