Kevin Tent on editing 'The Holdovers'

One of 2023’s most heartwarming movies, The Holdovers, scored 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Editing and we are incredibly lucky to kickstart We Need to Talk About Oscar with the film’s editor: two time Academy Award Nominee Kevin Tent.
Kevin is not only a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) who won the ACE Eddie Award for The Descendants in 2012, besides being nominated 5 other times between 2000 and 2024, but he is also the president of the board.
Most of you probably know his work thanks to his longstanding collaboration with director Alexander Payne, as they have worked together on every single feature film Payne has directed.
Kevin talked to Szilveszter about The Holdovers, his early days in the film industry and working together with the one and only Alexander Payne.
If you haven’t seen The Holdovers so far, we highly recommend you to do so. Trust us, it will be worth your time!

(Photo credit: Peter Zachery)