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Oscar Winner Jennifer Lame on the Hardest Scenes to Edit Into Oppenheimer
The Best Editing winner talked to us last summer about what almost got cut from Christopher Nolan’s high-wire epic, and the obsessions that fueled it.
Last night, Jennifer Lame won a well-deserved Oscar for Best Editing for her work on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a sprawling and amazingly fast-paced chunk of 20th-century history that somehow also managed to entertain millions. She had previously worked with the director on his bizarrely intricate action epic Tenet, and the editing in both films merges art, craft, and extreme sports — they are ultrastylized high-wire acts that pull the audience along through dense, elaborate narratives. Nolan’s scripts have many of their structural flourishes written into them, but he also gives his editors room to play, which meant that Lame got to spend lots of time trying new things, moving scenes around, inserting flashbacks and flash forwards.
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