Michael McCusker

Biography

Michael "Mike" McCusker (born June 23, 1966) is an American film editor. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005) and Ford v Ferrari (2019), winning the latter. McCusker frequently collaborates with director James Mangold. McCusker stated that editing is "a dance of the eyes. It's not just splicing two pieces of film together but compressing time, leading the audience, telling the story through images and dialogue." Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael McCusker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ☆Academy Award — Best Film Editing · 2020 · nominated
• ☆Academy Award — Best Film Editing · 2006 · nominated