Damien Chazelle’s go-to editor since the time when Whiplash was just a short, Oscar winner Tom Cross threw out the musical playbook for First Man, tapping into a documentary approach he honed early in his career and had long since left behind. Crafting a brutally immersive, subjective experience, which would document…

Shortly before winning his first Oscar and an ACE Eddie award for La La Land, absorbed in the limelight of one of the year’s most highly acclaimed films, editor Tom Cross was in a very different headspace as he cut Scott Cooper’s dark, often brutal Western Hostiles, attempting to bring a depth and a psychological…

Universal critical acclaim and one Oscar later, life is good for editor Tom Cross, as he takes a break from his full days editing Scott Cooper’s upcoming Hostiles. On the press circuit for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, a December musical release starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone which has generated…