Joe Bini

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Joe Bini (born Giuseppe Gaetano Bini; 1963) is an American film editor.

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Life

Bini was born in San Mateo, California to Aurora Cerro Bini and Louis John Bini.[ citation needed ] As a film editor, he has collaborated with Werner Herzog on twenty-seven documentaries and feature films in twenty years, including: Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), [1] Invincible (2001), Grizzly Man (2005), [2] Rescue Dawn (2007), [3] and Encounters at the End of the World (2007), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [4]

Bini edited Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) for BBC Films and Independent [5] and American Honey (2016) with director Andrea Arnold. He edited the 2017 film You Were Never Really Here , directed by Ramsay.

He is father to Elia Bini (born in Tyumen, Siberia) whose mother is Caitlin Bini. Joe is currently married to filmmaker Maya Hawke. [6]

Sundance Film Festival

Bini was a member of the Jury in the Documentary category for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. He also won the 2008 Documentary Editing Award for editing Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired . [7]

Emmy Awards

For co-writing and editing the documentary film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008), Bini won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming and received a nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program.

Cannes Film Festival

Was awarded Prix Vulcain de L'Artiste-Technicien, Special Distinction at Cannes Film Festival 2011 for his work on We Need to Talk About Kevin .

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