Cutting Grand Budapest Hotel:Oscar-Nom Editor Barney Pilling
I talked to editor Barney Pilling about his Oscar nominated work on Grand Budapest Hotel and working with Wes Anderson.
Wes Anderson’s Oscar-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel is an adventure that crosses multiple time periods (depicted by aspect ratio) while maintaining the director’s trademark visual style — a combination of challenges for the very best of editors. When Anderson’s recent frequent editor Andrew Weisblum became tied up with another film, editor Barney Pilling (Never Let Me Go, An Education, Life on Mars) was recommended to cut Grand Budapest, and things moved quickly from there.