Some high-profile Oscar contenders have Christmas releases this year, including director Rob Marshall’s musical Into the Woods; Ava DuVernay’s historical drama, Selma; Clint Eastwood’s biographical film American Sniper; and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. For Unbroken, editors Tim Squyres and William Goldenberg said they had to find a balance while telling the heroic true story of WWII vet and Olympian Louie Zamperini. Into the Woods features various fairy-tale characters in interweaving storylines, something editor Wyatt Smith said was a “blessing and a curse” when it came to cutting the movie. Editor Spencer Averick, who worked on “Selma,” which centers on Martin Luther King Jr., said, “If you pick it apart, it’s a real human story within this historical drama.”
