An Academy Award that perhaps should not exist. In deciding the award winner, the Academy does not view the entire film stock used to make a film and so in all honesty has no frame of reference to determine what the "best editing" job is. For instance, it may be that a 2 hour film has over 1,000 hours of raw footage; in this case it would not be hard to imagine that, no matter how good the film, a better edit could always exist (as well as a near-infinite number of worse edits). Many directors film several takes of a scene from each camera angle, improvising while filming and choosing to edit the film in the cutting room. Other directors, such as [the Coen brothers]?, storyboard their films extensively, and film very little extra; they take this approach to secure the budget they want and to help themselves stay under it. [Sydney Lumet]? films only the takes he thinks are necessary, with the purpose of allowing the film's editors as little deviation from his vision as possible. And [Clint Eastwood]? does only one take of each camera angle, leaving even almost no variation in how the film can be edited.
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