Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [100 points/17 votes]
Second place:
Mat Newman, Drive [105/16]
And your winner...
Hark Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber and Mark Yoshikawa, The Tree of Life [154/21]
"The singular quality of Terrence Malick’s craft has been the stuff of legend for decades now. But the past ten years-plus in particular have evinced the truly distinctive approach to filmmaking he's cultivated, as various technicians have testified to his favored methods of organic bedlam. With The Tree of Life, a film that had many a fan and critic salivating after a long post-production process, Malick raises the stakes once again, employing five different chief editors for periods of time ranging from a few months to over a year. The very need to enlist the various motif- and character-specific organizational systems that were put in place during post-production, then, is both evidence of the editors’ massive undertaking and a testament to their unparalleled success. In piecing together Malick’s cosmos-sized vision, his editors could have bravely aimed for mere cohesion; instead, they managed transcendence.In fluidly juxtaposing the intimate and the epic, the natural and the man-made, the microcosmic and macrocosmic, the editing of The Tree of Life generates a hallucinatory mosaic of cerebral and emotional memory out of an imperceivably daunting amassment of footage. Given Malick’s proclivity for shooting a scene in any number of incarnations, some as tonally or texturally dissimilar as night and day, it's no small feat that the editors have crafted something so profoundly moving and spiritually rich. The Tree of Life captures the enormity of human existence as complexly as any film put to screen. And without the considerably rare brilliance of its myriad editors, this particular apex in cinematic history might not have been what it is." - Luke Gorham
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