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Christopher took his first job as a cutter in his own right for Whit Stillman's film Metropolitan in 1990, and also worked on Whit’sfilm Barcelona.

Christopher’s other earlier projects include: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Kids, Flirting With Disaster, Gummo, Analyze This, The People Versus Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon.

Christopher’s later projects include: The Yellow Handkerchief, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, and he worked with directorBennett Miller on Capote and Moneyball where he was also nominated for an Oscar for editing.

Christopher took his first job as a cutter in his own right for Whit Stillman's film Metropolitan in 1990, and also worked on Whit’sfilm Barcelona.

Christopher’s other earlier projects include: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Kids, Flirting With Disaster, Gummo, Analyze This, The People Versus Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon.

Christopher’s later projects include: The Yellow Handkerchief, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, and he worked with directorBennett Miller on Capote and Moneyball where he was also nominated for an Oscar for editing.  

Christopher took his first job as a cutter in his own right for Whit Stillman's film Metropolitan in 1990, and also worked on Whit’sfilm Barcelona.

Christopher’s other earlier projects include: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Kids, Flirting With Disaster, Gummo, Analyze This, The People Versus Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon.

Christopher’s later projects include: The Yellow Handkerchief, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, and he worked with directorBennett Miller on Capote and Moneyball where he was also nominated for an Oscar for editing.  

For this special edition of the show, I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio editor and co-producer Paul Elsnau to discuss the 2013 Academy Award short film nominees for the live-action, documentary, and animation categories.

The films are packaged by Shorts International and are screened at cinemas around the world prior and following the Academy Awards ceremony.

Jon has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards.

Jon has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan.

In 1972, Jon and his wife founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. In 1991, while employed by NBC, Jon was the first American journalist to bring back uncensored video footage from the first Persian Gulf War, has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.

Jon has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province.

Jon was nominated again for the 2013 Academy Awards in the same category for Redemption, about the variety New York City's canners - the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs.

Matt holds degrees from Middlebury College and the directing program at the American Film Institute.

Matt's thesis film, The Honeyfields, was accepted at film festivals all over the world and won numerous prizes.

Matt has been working in film for several years, including making documentaries for television on topics ranging from politics to resident doctors to the youth in Serbia during the Bosnian War.

More recently, Matt completed the award winning feature film, The Dynamiter, a coming of age film, about 14 year Robbie who must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he's ever had, set in the Summer in Mississippi.

The Dynamiter was also selected for the prestigious Film Movement Series.

Richard has been editing in film and television for over twenty years.

Some of Richard's film credits include: 2 Seconds, Maelstrom, Chaos and Desire, The Marsh, Mambo Italiano, The Five of Us, A Family Secret, Truffe, The Necessities of Life, Polytechnique, and City of Shadows.

One of Richard's most recent films is the Oscar nominated film, War Witch, about Komona, a 14 year old girl in Sub-Saharan Africa who tells the story of her life during a civil war to the unborn child growing inside her.

Benoit is best known for the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated, animated film, The Triplettes of Belleville, for which he won a Cesar Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song Belleville Rendez-vous, in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination.

Benoit composed the score for the National Film Board of Canada animated short Runaway, written and directed by Cordell Barker.

Benoit wrote the music for a variety of other feature films including: Maxed Out, Polytechnique, Route 132, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, and Mars et Avril.

Kasper has cut more than 20 feature films, including Truly Human, Flies on the Wall, and Cecilie.

Kasper also cuts commercials, documentaries and television series. Kasper has edited episodes of the internationally acclaimed series The Killing and Borgen.

Kasper has recently contributed to the editing of Simon And The Oaks and edited the films: Terribly Happy, Fighter and the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated film, the 18th century historical drama, A Royal Affair.

Danny in 2007 received a BAFTA television award nomination for Best Photography and Lighting for his work on Longford, and another in 2008 for Joe's Palace.

Danny also received a shared an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie for John Adams, directed by Tom Hooper.

Danny's other film and television credits include: Dead Man's Shoes, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, Glorious 39, and Pirate Radio.

Danny collaborated with Tom Hooper on the Oscar winning film, The King's Speech, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for Best Cinematography.

Danny recently was the Director of Photography on Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the musical Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated, Les Miserables, set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption.