Joe Hutshing

Joe Hutshing can definitely be included among the greatest film editors of all time due not only to his impressive resume with works from directors like Oliver Stone, Cameron Crowe and John Woo but also due to his innovative techniques and amazing eye for details in order to compose a great cinematic story. His first cinema credit was as an assistant editor in Valley Girl (1983), a function he exercised a few more times in films such as Being John Malkovich (1999), We Bought a Zoo (2011) and the latest Independence Day; and also as a sound editor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and The Princess Bride (1987). His partnership with Oliver Stone is one of his most rewarding and the one that lasted the longest. They collaborated in seven films: _Wall Street (1987) - still as an assistant film editor; Talk Radio (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), The Doors (1991), W. (2008) and Savages (2012). He won Academy Awards in the Best Editing category for two of his Stone works, Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and the outstanding production JFK (1991) - which along with Pietro Scalia they edited down an epic 4-hour epic in the matter of one month. This amazing task also earned them a Bafta and the American Cinema Editors award - of which later Hutshing would become a member. Hutshing would get two other Oscar nominations for Jerry Maguire (1996) and Almost Famous (2000), both directed by Cameron Crowe. Other credits include: Indecent Proposal (1993), The River Wild (1994), Broken Arrow (1996), Meet Joe Black (1998), Live from Baghdad (2002) for which won an Emmy; Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), Lions for Lambs (2007), Metallica Through the Never (2013), Aloha (2015) and Crown Heights (2017).