LA LA LAND
La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, and J. K. Simmons also star. La La Land was praised for Chazelle’s screenplay and direction, Gosling’s and Stone’s performances, the musical score, musical numbers, cinematography, and production design. It won a record-breaking seven awards from its seven nominations at the 74th Golden Globes and received eleven nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five awards, including Best Film. It also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories, including Best Director for Chazelle and Best Actress for Stone.(More from Wikipedia)
The Oscar for Film Editing was awarded to Tom Cross for his work in Whiplash; J. K. Simmons won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in this film, where he played a sadistic instructor at a prestigious music conservatory. Cross has been nominated numerous times for many different awards for his film editing work, including a second nomination for an Oscar for La La Land (2016). Cross speaks of the technical aspects of his work on Whiplash (again as quoted on NBCNews.com): “‘The sync [to the music] was close but not perfect,’ Cross said. ‘We couldn’t alter the soundtrack and couldn’t slow or speed up the music; that would have been immediately obvious. I needed to line the pictures up, manually, for every drum hit. The most precise way was with jump cuts and to take out frames. And this had to be imperceptible.’”
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