In all the excitement of the BAFTAs, it’s worth appreciating the craft that helps all those films make any sense at all. Here’s the full list of the British Film Editors’ award-winners.
Imagine a world without film and TV editors. It doesn’t bear thinking about, really. Making anything with a camera at all would be bloody hard, for a start, and then you’d have to use that take where Idris Elba realised he had yoghurt on his trousers. Oh, behave.
Good job, then, we’ve got British Film Editors, the non-profit association dedicated to the art of sticking all those bits of footage together to make something sensible-looking. Every year, they hold the Cut Above Awards, a celebration of editing achievement comparable to the guild awards in the States.
Held on 16th February, the 2024 awards pitched current awards favourites Oppenheimer and Poor Things alongside documentaries like Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Beckham and The Deepest Breath.
Check out the full list of award-winners, chosen by editors from the British film industry, below:
Best Edited Single Drama
Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame, ACE
Best Edited Single Documentary or Non-Fiction Programme
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie – Michael Harte, ACE BFE
Best Edited British Drama
Poor Things – Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE BFE
Best Edited British Documentary or Non-Fiction
The Deepest Breath – Julian Hart, BFE
Best Edited Single Animation
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Michael Andrews, ACE
Best Edited Current Affairs
20 Days in Mariupol – Michelle Mizner
Best Edited Series: Comedy
What We Do in the Shadows – Season 5 – Thomas Calderon, Liza Cardinale, ACE, A.J. Dickerson, ACE & Dane McMaster, ACE
Best Edited Series: Animation
Blue Eye Samurai – Yuka Shirasuna & Brad Lee Zimmerman
Best Edited Series: Drama
The Bear – Season 2 – Joanna Naugle, ACE BFE, Adam Epstein, ACE BFE, Nia Imani & Megan Mancini
Best Edited Series: Documentary or Non-Fiction
Beckham – Michael Harte, ACE BFE
Chris Crookall Award for Breakthrough Editor
Harfun Li
Michael Johns BFE Award for Outstanding Assistant Editor
Christopher Frith
If you want to watch the awards back, you can do so from the BFE website, here.
