Angus Wall

Angus Alexander Wall born March 15 1967 is a film editor and film title designer He and fellow film editor Kirk Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the David Fincher film The Social Network 2010 and again the next year for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 He and Baxter were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button also directed by David Fincher Walls title design work on the HBO television series Carnivàle and Game of Thrones both received Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2011 respectively and his work on the series Romes titles was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 2005 Wall graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia in 1984 He then earned a BA from Bowdoin College in 1988 In 1992 he and Linda Carlson started the firm Rock Paper Scissors which has become a respected West Hollywood creative editorial house known for its commercial work for such clients as BMW HP and Nike Walls relationship with the director David Fincher extends back to 1988 when Wall entered the entertainment industry Wall had edited some commercials directed by David Fincher and he edited the titles for Finchers film Se7en He became an editorial consultant on Fight Club 1999 which was edited by James Haygood and he then coedited Panic Room 2002 with Haygood While Wall became the sole editor credited on Zodiac 2007 Kirk Baxter worked with him as an additional editor Wall proposed to Fincher that Baxter be the coeditor for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Wall and his firm are noted for being early adopters of alldigital filmmaking using digital cameras The film Zodiac 2007 which was directed by Fincher and edited by Wall is noted as the first major motion picture created without using film or tape although some parts of the film were shot with conventional cameras One important aspect of using digital cameras is that the director can view a scene immediately after it is recorded as Fincher commented in an interview Dailies almost always end up being disappointing like the veil is pierced and you look at it for the first time and think Oh my god this is what I really have to work with But when you can see what you have as its gathered it can be a much less neurotic process Digital filmmaking also creates new possibilities for film editing compared to the cutting of reels of physical film among these possibilities are subtle changes in the timing of an actors performance and the combining of two different takes of a given scene within a single frame The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the additional novel element that the facial performances in many of the films scenes were recorded independently of the body performances and were combined to create the final film Brad Pitts face performances for Button were used in all the scenes but for many of the scenes a second actors performance was used for the rest of Buttons body Description above from the Wikipedia article Angus Wall licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia