Art of the Cut

Today on Art of the Cut, one of the most talked about films at the moment, the horror film, Barbarian, currently on HBOMax. With us to discuss this film today is Art of the Cut's first-ever guest host: multi-Emmy-winning editor, Stephanie Filo, ACE. Steph has been a guest on the show before and I saw her post several times about this film on Twitter as a self-proclaimed "fan-girl" of the film, so I thought with her knowledge of editing and her love of the film, she'd be the perfect co-host. Also with me are the film's writer/director, Zach Cregger and the film's editor Joe Murphy. Joe and I have one degree of imdb separation as we've both co-edited with Jamie Kirkpatrick. Stephanie Filo, ACE - my co-host - has edited A Black Lady Sketch Show, for which she won multiple Emmys and was nominated for an ACE Eddie. She also won a Peabody Award for her editing of the documentary Surviving R. Kelly. And edited the recent Dahmer series available on Netflix. Zach Cregger is probably best-known as an actor in TV series like The Whitest Kids U Know, and Wrecked, and the feature films, Miss March and College. Joe Murphy's credits as editor include the feature films Swallow, Don't Come Back from the Moon, We Summon the Darkness and The Sound and the Fury. Also, TV series like Kingpin and A Friend of the Family.

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk with the editors of Black Adam: John Lee and Mike Sale, ACE. Michael's credits include Red Notice, Central Intelligence, We're The Millers, The Hangover II, and Bridesmaids (for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie). John started his career as an assistant on the original Matrix movie. He was an additional editor on Inception and an associate editor on movies like Tenet, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Dunkirk, Spectre and Interstellar. John was on a previous Art of the Cut episode to discuss his work on Dunkirk, with editor Lee Smith, ACE.

Today on Art of the Cut we’re talking with brothers, Sean and Ryan McIlraith. They are editors at Saturday Night Live and have edited many of the digital shorts that have gone viral over the last few years. Sean’s been on the show as an editor since 2013, and has also cut episodes of That's My Time with David Letterman, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and segments of NBC’s New Years Eve show. He’s currently cutting a feature film with some SNL alums. Ryan’s been at SNL since 2018 and has been an editor there since 2019. He’s also cut on That's My Time with David Letterman, It’s Bruno, and The Hardest Job in Sports. Both brothers also cut short films and TV spots.

Today on Art of the Cut we are speaking with Oscar-nominated editor Jay Cassidy, ACE, about editing David O. Russell's "Amsterdam." Jay's been on Art of the Cut before for his editing of "A Star is Born" for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie. His first ACE Eddie win was for "An Inconvenient Truth." He received his first Oscar nomination for "Into the Wild." He was also nominated for an Oscar and an ACE Eddie for "Fury" and received another Oscar nomination, and an ACE Eddie win for "Silver Linings Playbook," along with another Oscar nomination for "American Hustle." Other work includes "The King of Staten Island," "Birds of Prey," and "Joy," in a career that includes more than 30 feature films.

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk with Monika Willi about her work on director Todd Field's film "Tár," starring Cate Blanchett. Monika is based in Vienna, Austria and has won numerous film editing awards throughout Europe. Her editing work includes the features “The White Ribbon,” “Amour,” “Funny Games and she directed and edited the documentary “Untitled” which won the Austrian film award for Best Documentary. She also edited the TV series "Funeral for a Dog.”

Today on Art of the Cut, we talk with Affonso Gonçalves, ACE about his work on Olivia Wilde’s, Don’t Worry Darling. Affonso has been nominated for an Emmy and won an ACE Eddie for his work on the TV series True Detective. He was nominated for another ACE Eddie for his work on the documentary, The Velvet Underground. His other work includes the films Carol, The Lost Daughter, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Winter’s Bone.

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.