Oscars 2019: Who Should Win Every Award (And Who Actually Will)

10. Film Editing

Green Book
Universal Pictures

Nominees: Bohemian Rhapsody (John Ottman), Vice (Hank Corwin), BlacKkKlansman (Barry Alexander Brown), The Favourite (Yorgos Mavropsaridis), Green Book (Patrick J Don Vito)

Who Should Win

BlacKkKlansman

Barry Alexander Brown deserves a lot of credit for making BlacKkKlansman work, given how the film so deftly switches from comedy to outright vile depictions of racism. and between moments such as the Civil Rights speech and the induction to the KKK. There's a lot of incredible cross-cutting going on, and that's before you get to that jaw-dropping ending, the transition into which helps it make such an impact, and which is very much a feat of Brown's editing

Who Will Win

Vice

This award doesn't always go to the best-edited film, but rather the film with the most editing. That's likely the case this year, as the two frontrunners are Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody. The former took the BAFTA, the latter the ACE Eddie (Dramatic) award, and Oscars line-up with the Brits on this one slightly more of late. There's no denying that Hank Corwin's work is showy, with numerous freeze frames, montages, and a great mid-credits gag, and that should seal it for voters. It also doesn't matter that it's not a Best Picture frontrunner: this used to go hand-in-hand with the top prize, but it's only happened once this decade (Argo in 2012).

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