For our eighth Rundown article, we’ll take a glimpse at the category where everything comes together in the end. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Film Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category where the overall look of the film is decided.

Best Film Editing

Winner Predictions

• BlacKkKlansman (TL R) [New]
• Bohemian Rhapsody (WL R) [New] (PP R) [New]
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Vice (TB O)

Runner-Up Predictions

• BlacKkKlansman (TB O)
• The Favourite (WL R) [New]
• Green Book (PP R) [New]
• Vice (TL R) [New]

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Wesley Lovell: With the American Cinema Editors playing kingmaker, Bohemian Rhapsody looks like the film to beat this year. The Favourite, winner in the comedy category at ACE, could well make a surprise play for the award, as could one of the other non-ACE-winning titles, but that would be a bit surprising.
Peter J. Patrick: Bohemian Rhapsody is terribly edited, but if they could fool the ACE editors, they could conceivably fool the Academy with both Green Book and The Favourite poised to overtake it.
Tripp Burton: This is a really weird category, and I can think of more reasons for all of these to lose than for them to win. I know that the ACE awards went to Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite, but the Oscars don’t always correlate to them very well. I’m going out on a limb and saying that the Academy gave Vice 8 nominations and this might be the best place for them to award it, so I’ll guess it’s flashy editing gives it a win here.
Thomas La Tourrette: I am finding it hard to predict this category. The guild awards actually made it murkier for me. The one I know will not win is Green Book, but cases could be made for all the others. Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite won the guild awards, and I would have thought they were the weaker entries. I thought it would be a race between BlacKkKlansman and Vice. The editor on Vice won an earlier Oscar for The Big Short, and the glitzy editing work on it made it the likely candidate. However, it has not done well in the precursors. That leaves BlacKkKlansman, which makes me wonder if it is going to win. It also has not gotten much in the precursors, but the two films that had done best there, Roma and First Man, were not even nominated. I really do not know, but I will go with BlacKkKlansman to win.

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