For his work on director Joseph Kosinski’s F1 (Apple Original Films), Stephen Mirrione, ACE earned his fourth career Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Film Editing. He won in 2001 for Traffic, and was nominated for Babel (shared with Douglas Crise) and The Revenant in 2007 and 2016, respectively. All his Oscar-recognized work is from directors with whom Mirrione has enjoyed a collaborative relationship spanning multiple films. While Traffic was his first feature for Stephen Soderbergh, the two went on to team on such movies as Ocean’s Eleven, The Informant! and Contagion. Babel and The Revenant are part of Mirrione’s shared filmography with director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which also includes 21 Grams and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). The latter was editing by Mirrione and Crise. And F1 marks Mirrione’s third film with Kosinski. Mirrione earlier edited Spiderhead and prior to that contributed to the editing of Top Gun: Maverick (for which Eddie Hamilton garnered a Best Editing Oscar nomination). While it’s difficult to encapsulate the nature of a working relationship, Mirrione--when asked to do so--gave a description based on observations from his and Kosinski's spouses. Early on for F1, Kosinski and Mirrione found themselves working from their homes during the pandemic, deploying different conferencing apps including Evercast. “Joe told me one day that he was in his home office while his wife was working in another room. At some point she told Joe, ‘I hear you arguing all day long.’” The night before, Mirrione recalled that his wife told him that all she heard was... Read More