In nonfiction filmmaking, the editor is the sculptor, the script writer and often the savior. They take hours and hours of raw footage and craft a narrative that gives life and resonance to the director’s vision. Here we acknowledge the editor’s prime role in the creative construction of documentary film. Previous winners in this category include Doug Abel, Jenny Golden and Andy Grieve for Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2008), Jinx Godfrey for Man on Wire (2009), Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for Burma VJ (2010), Chris King and Tom Fulford for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2011), Gregers Sall and Chris King for Senna (2012), T. Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk for How to Survive a Plague (2012), Nels Bangerter for Let the Fire Burn (2013), Mathilde Bonnefoy for Citizenfour (2015), Chris King for Amy (2016), Nels Bangerter for Cameraperson (2017), Lindsay Utz for Quest (2018), Joshua Altman and Bing Liu for Minding the Gap (2019), Todd Douglas Miller for Apollo 18 (2020), Gabriel Rhodes for Time (2021), Joshua Pearson for Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2022), Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput for Fire of Love (2023) and Michael Harte for Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2024).
