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.”

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk to the editors of Disney Plus’s “Obi Wan Kenobi” series. Those editors are (alphabetically): Nicolas de Toth, ACE, Kelley Dixon, ACE, and Josh Earl. Nicolas de Toth has been a previous Art of the Cut guest for his film Gunpowder Milkshake. His other work includes Hitman: Agent 47, Gulliver’s Travels, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Live Free or Die Hard among others. He also edited the pilot of the Hawaii-Five-O reboot. Kelley Dixon has also been a guest several times on Art of the Cut including for her work on the film The Goldfinch and for her work on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Kelley’s other work includes the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Passage, Castle Rock, Preacher and Halt and Catch Fire. Kelley has won or been nominated for numerous Emmys and ACE Eddies. Josh Earl was brought onto the project as a First Assistant Editor to Kelley Dixon and eventually co-edited the final episode of Obi Wan. His previous editorial work includes the feature film Shepard, and TV series including Race to the Center of the Earth, Bering Sea Gold, Around the World in 80 Ways, and Deadliest Catch for which he won numerous Emmys and an ACE Eddie.

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk to the editors of HULU’s “The Bear.” It’s got some really innovative editing and when I queried Art of the Cut fans about the shows they wanted to hear more about, “The Bear” was high on the list. The editor of the pilot episode - and half of the others in the series - is Joanna Naugle. In addition to her work on “The Bear,” Joanna has also worked on TV series including Human Resources, Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts, Ramy, and Some Good News. Adam Epstein’s other work includes more than a decade at Saturday Night Live, plus TV series including Mr. Mayor, That Damn Michael Che, and Some Good News.

Today, on Art of the Cut, we’re talking with editor Alan Edward Bell, ACE about editing the film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” which was based on the 2018 best-selling novel. Bell has been a guest on Art of the Cut several times for his work on The Hunger Games movies and Red Sparrow. Alan is an ACE Eddie nominee for his work on “(500) Days of Summer.” His other films include “The Amazing Spider-man,” “Water For Elephants.” and “Gulliver’s Travels.