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- In 2022, British film editor Joe Walker won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on Dune. Walker is also a two-time Academy Award nominee and a three-time BAFTA nominee for his work on the films 12 Years a Slave, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Walker was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award in 2009, and the British Independent Film Award in 2010. In 2012, he won the European Film Award for Best Editor for the feature film Shame starring Michael Fassbender. Additionally, Walker was nominated for The Satellite Award in 2011, 2013, 2015 and was the winner in 2016 for the American crime thriller-movie Sicario directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Walker has received a string of four nominations over five years from the American Cinema Editor's Award for the Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film. In 2016, Walker won this award for Arrival.
In 2018, Walker cut the film Widows for director Steve McQueen. Walker is currently editing Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two.- IMDb mini biography by: Iconic Talent Agency
- Frequently edits Denis Villeneuve and Steve McQueen films.
- Joe Walker lent his voice to the temp track Denis Villeneuve used for the computer entries Paul Atreides accesses in Dune (2021), but the director so enjoyed that version that he asked to, and did, keep it in the finished film.
- As of 2022, he has contributed with the editing of three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: 12 Years a Slave (2013), Arrival (2016) and Dune: Part One (2021). Of those, 12 Years a Slave (2013) is a winner in the category.
- Time is the Editor's superpower
- On the placing of subtitles to help prioritise images on screen : "If you want to read, go to a f**king library. We're in a cinema"
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