‘Dune’s Joe Walker Wins Film Editing Oscar, Wove Together Complex Sci-Fi Epic
deadline.comJoe Walker has won the Oscar for film editing for Dune — taking one of the eight technical categories that were controversially shifted out of the main telecast.
Dune was the frontrunner for the win, which is Walker’s first after two previous nominations, for Arrival (in 2017, also directed by Denis Villeneuve) and 12 Years A Slave (2014).The Warner Bros.
and Legendary Entertainment saga has ten Oscar noms and was expected to sweep the crafts category, as it is. It has the distinction of being the highest grossing Best Picture nominee by far at over $400 million worldwide and $100 million in North America.
Walker, as Deadline’s Pete Hammond noted, had a Herculean job weaving together all the huge elements of Dune, “while also keeping its actors from sinking in the sand.”Timothée Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides as noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy’s most valuable asset while its scion is troubled by visions of a dark future.
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