Kelley Dixon, ACE
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Kelley Dixon, ACE began professionally editing in 1990, as an assistant editor on feature films and TV series (including Good Will Hunting, Reservoir Dogs, and thirteen episodes of Without a Trace). As primary editor, she is known for her work between 2008-2017 on several noteworthy series, including sixteen episodes of Better Call Saul, twenty-seven episodes of Breaking Bad from 2008-2013, five episodes of The Walking Dead, and seven episodes of Shameless. Dixon won an Emmy for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for Breaking Bad and has been nominated twenty other times for various editing awards. Most recently, she edited Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
“For an editor, sometimes things are hard, sometimes shows are hard, sometimes politics are hard, and you’re not working with the people that you want to work with and stuff like that. But you know what? It’s the best job ever.”
— Kelley Dixon, interviewed on Television Academy. The full video can be found in the Appendix.
Sally Menke, ACE began editing both documentaries and narratives in 1980. She worked on Tarantino’s first film Reservoir Dogs in 1992 and went on to edit six more of his films before her untimely death at age fifty-six. In combination, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and Inglourious Basterds earned Menke ten best editing wins, including a Hollywood Film Award and an EDA. She also received twenty-five nominations, including two for Oscars, three for BAFTAs, and two for Eddies. She edited films by other directors, including Mullholland Falls for Lee Tamahori and All the Pretty Horses for Billy Bob Thornton, but her work with Tarantino was central to her career—and his. He summarized their working relationship in 2007 by saying that Menke was his “only, truly genuine collaborator.”
