When supervising sound editor Gwendolyn Yates Whittle accepted her career achievement award on Feb. 26 at the 70th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards, she was only the third woman to do so. “I’m hoping to start a trend of more women getting more recognition,” Yates Whittle, who worked on Avatar: The Way of Water (for which she received her third Oscar nomination) and Top Gun: Maverick, tells THR. “There are a lot of fantastic female sound editors out there. We should be a bigger club.”
Joy Ride Editor Nena Erb, ACE On The Science of Cutting Comedy
Nena Erb, ACE initially turned down Joy Ride because she wanted to work on a weird drama but the film team was persistent in bringing her vision onboard. In a race against time, Erb had a rough assembly cut put together four days after filming wrapped.