Joe Bini (born Giuseppe Gaetano Bini; 1963) is an American film editor.
Life
Bini, who lives in London, was born in
San Mateo, California
San Mateo ( ) is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It is part of the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan region, and is located about south of San Francisco. San Mateo border ...
to Aurora Cerro Bini and Louis John Bini. As a film editor, he has collaborated with
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusu ...
on twenty-seven documentaries and feature films in twenty years, including: ''
Little Dieter Needs to Fly'' (1997), ''
Invincible'' (2001), ''
Grizzly Man'' (2005), ''
Rescue Dawn'' (2007), and ''
Encounters at the End of the World'' (2007), which was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Academy Honorary Award, Special Awards to ''Kukan'' and ''Target for Tonight''. The ...
.
Bini edited Lynne Ramsay's ''
We Need to Talk About Kevin'' (2011) for
BBC Films
BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including ''Truly, Madly, Deeply (film), Truly, ...
and Independent and ''
American Honey'' (2016) with director Andrea Arnold. He edited the 2017 film ''
You Were Never Really Here'', directed by Ramsay. Bini was also an editor for the
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...
-winning documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed that was released in 2022.
He is the father of Elia Bini, of San Francisco, California, whose mother is Caitlin Bini, also in San Francisco. Joe is currently married to filmmaker Maya Hawke.
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''.
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''.
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Primetime Emmy Award winners
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