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The pioneering women behind the invisible art of film editing

There would be no film without film editing. And yet, its practitioners don't often grace the cover of magazines.

Mark J. Terrill/AP When it comes to some of cinema's most iconic films, Steven Spielberg's Jaws is about as different from, say, The Wizard of Oz as that technicolor fantasy is from Quentin Tarantino's genre pastiche Pulp Fiction. "The fact that editing is supposed to be invisible, which has contributed to editors not being visible, is what makes it such a great craft," said Su Friedrich, a filmmaker and former professor at Princeton University. YouTube At this year's Oscars, Thelma Schoonmaker received a record ninth nomination for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, marking her 22nd collaboration with the celebrated filmmaker.

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