Art of the Cut – Details, episodes & analysis

Today on Art of the Cut we speak with Oscar nominee Jake Roberts, ACE, about editing Alien Romulus.

Jake has been on Art of the Cut previously for the films Brooklyn, Hell or High Water, and The Hitman's Bodyguard. He was also on for the TV series, Devs.

His work on Hell or High Water was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, an ACE Eddie and an Oscar.

We’re going to be discussing director Fede Alvarez’s cinematic hack behind the jump scare, how pacing builds tension, and how they shot special effects in the cutting room.

You can read along with this interview and see trailers, film clips and stills from the movie at

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Today on Art of the cut, we speak with Emmy-nominated editor Michael Harte, ACE, about editing the Netflix docu-series, “Beckham.” He was also nominated for an ACE Eddie and a BAFTA for the series.

Harte won an Emmy, an ACE Eddie a BAFTA for his editing of the documentary “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.”  He was also nominated for an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for his editing of the documentary “Three Identical Strangers.”

We’re going to be discussing the need to know where and how the documentary  starts, the importance of archival that speaks in conversation with the interviews, and respecting the all-important power of the truth.

If you'd like to read along with the interview, check out the blog of the podcast, which includes trailers and exclusive images and more.

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Today on Art of the Cut we speak with the editing team of the Apple TV Plus show, The Morning Show. We’re speaking with Carole Kravetz Aykanian, Plummy Tucker, ACE, and Henk Van Eeghen, ACE.

Carole’s work includes features like The Little Prince, Out of Time, High Crimes, and Devil in a Blue Dress. Also TV series including Dirty John, Ballers, and The Affair. 

Plummy was last on Art of the Cut to discuss editing the feature film Destroyer. Other features include The invitation and Aeon Flux, and documentary work like Alex Gibney’s Client 9. Her other TV work includes Yellowjackets and Power.

Henk won an ACE Eddie for editing About Sarah, was nominated for three Emmys, including two for Lost, for which he was also nominated for two more ACE Eddies and then won an Emmy for Lost. His other work includes the TV series Watchmen and Fargo.

You can follow along with this podcast, reading the transcript and checking out the great visual support, like trailers, clips and other images at:

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Today, we’re talking with Terilyn Shropshire, ACE on editing “The Woman King.” The last time I spoke with Terilyn, she had just edited “The Old Guard.” So, two films in a row with powerful female warriors! Terilyn has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and she won an ACE Eddie for “Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story.”

Terilyn’s other credits include another action flick with a strong female action lead, Miss Bala and the films Eve’s Bayou and Love and Basketball. She edited the extraordinary film The Secret Life of Bees and her TV credits include episode 1 of Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. She was also an additional editor on A Wrinkle in Time.

Today on Art of the Cut we talk with ACE Eddie-nominated editor, Angela Catanzaro, ACE about editing the latest Predator movie, “Prey.”

Angela last spoke with Art of the Cut about her film "The Protege" and before that for "Five Feet Apart." Her other features include "The Foreigner" and TV series including "Man in the High Castle," "Code Black," "Parenthood," "Suits" and "Friday Night Lights" (for which she was nominated for an ACE Eddie.)

Today on Art of the Cut we’re talking with ACE Eddie winning editor, James Wilcox, ACE about the Ron Howard film, “Thirteen Lives.”

James won his ACE Eddie for the pilot episode of the Genius series “Einstein.” I last spoke with James when he edited “Hillbilly Elegy” which was also for Ron Howard. He also worked on the Aretha Franklin season of Genius as well as TV including Filthy Rich, Hand of God, Roots, Hawaii Five-O, CSI Miami, Reno 911!, Everybody Hates Chris and My Wife and Kids.

Today on Art of the Cut we’re talking with Jeff Groth, ACE. We’ll be discussing his editing work on The Gray Man, which was released recently on Netflix.

Jeff has been on Art of the Cut previously to discuss editing Joker, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and an ACE Eddie. His other feature credits include Cherry, War Dogs, Project X and Entourage. His TV credits include Entourage - for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie - Community and the pilot for Ballers.

The other editor on the film, who was unable to join us, was Pietro Scalia, ACE, who has been a previous guest on Art of the Cut for The Martian. Pietro has won multiple Oscars and ACE Eddies for films like Black Hawk Down, Gladiator and JFK.

Today we’re speaking with Elisabet Ronnaldsdotir, ACE about editing Bullet Train with her long-time directorial collaborator, David Leitch, who - at one time was Brad Pitt’s stunt double.

Elísabet started her editing career in her native Iceland more than 20 years ago. She’s spoken with me on Art of the Cut about Mile 22 and Atomic Blonde and Chang Chi - Legend of the 10 Rings. She also edited The Deep and John Wick, Deadpool 2 and Kate, among others. With credentials like that, it’s so easy to categorize her as the queen of the action film, but I think our discussion today will show that she’s so much more than that.

Today on Art of the Cut we discuss Jordan Peele’s genre-busting sci-fi/horror/Western/thriller film, “NOPE” with editor Nicholas Monsour.

Nicholas also edited Peele’s previous film, “Us.” Additionally, his work includes, the features “Keanu,” “Action Point,” and “Last Looks.” He’s also edited TV series including “The Twilight Zone,” “Whiskey Cavalier,” “Cobra Kai,” “Brockmire,” and, of course, “Key and Peele.”

Today, on Art of the Cut we’ve got another fan-requested interview! We’re talking to Geoffrey Richman, ACE and Erica Marker, ACE - two of the editors of the AppleTV+ series “Severance.”

Geoffrey was nominated this year for two Primetime Emmy’s for editing different episodes of “Severance.” He’s also been nominated for an Emmy for his work on Tiger King. He’s also won three ACE Eddies for - his work on Escape from Dannemora - and two different documentaries: “The Cove” and “Sicko.” He also won the special jury prize at Sundance for editing the documentary “Murderball.”

Erica was also nominated this year for a Primetime Emmy for one of her episodes of “Severance.” She also cut the feature film “Baked in Brooklyn” and TV series including “The First Lady,” “Fosse/Verdon,” and “The Good Fight.”