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A Conversation with film editor Hughes Winborne, who earlier this year took home an Oscar for his work on the film, "Crash."
HUGHES WINBORNE
OSCAR WINNER
Earlier this year, film editor Hughes Winborne took home an Oscar for work in the film Crash. He had only recently picked up an Eddie from the American Cinema Editors for the same work. I talked to him about his work, his loves, and winning the Oscar.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE WHAT A FILM EDITOR DOES, IN THE SIMPLEST LAY TERMS?
I take all the picture and sound that is shot during production and I go through it and pick out all of the parts needed to make the movie. It is a puzzle. It's a 90 to 120 minute puzzle.
ARE THESE HARD PUZZLES?
What is difficult is to know what not to put in. Strip it down to its bare bones and put it back in as you need. One of the most difficult things about any film, if you are trying to make an intelligent film, is to put in only what the audience needs so it can participate. Don't over inform them.
I think the hardest part of my job is that I see the film with the director hundreds of times. It's very hard for me to see it as an audience does for the first time and predict their reaction.
HOW DID IT FEEL TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS?
I was lucky that I won for ACE first. It gave me a chance to practice. I spent two weeks flying between terror and jubilation. Not terror of losing. I work for the most part on lower budget projects, independent films. I was thrilled when I thought I was in consideration to get nominated. I was terrified to get up there in front of all those people. I practiced. Once I heard my name I don't remember much after that.
I do remember when I turned around and looked at the audience, you see that there is a clock ticking down. They tell you at the nominee's luncheon you have 60 seconds for your speech. You think 60 seconds is forever, but I had only been able to get mine down to one minute, nine seconds.
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE MOVIE?
Chinatown and all of Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest. [Stanley Kubrick's] Barry Lyndon was the film that made me want to get into this business, when I came out of the theater after two and a half hours of becoming transported.
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