Joe Bini
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Joe Bini (born Giuseppe Gaetano Bini; 1963) is an American film editor.
Life and career
Bini, who lives in London, was born in San Mateo, California to Aurora Cerro Bini and Louis John Bini.[citation needed] As a film editor, he has collaborated with Werner Herzog 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.
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. 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.
Bini edited Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) for BBC Films and Independent and was awarded Prix Vulcain de L'Artiste-Technicien, Special Distinction at 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
He edited American Honey (2016) by Andrea Arnold and Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here (2017). Bini was also an editor for the Peabody Award-winning documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed that was released in 2022.
Personal life
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.
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Invincible | Werner Herzog | |
| 2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | ||
| 2006 | Rescue Dawn | ||
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | ||
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Co-edited with Omar Daher | ||
| 2011 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Werner Herzog | |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | ||
| American Honey | Andrea Arnold | ||
| 2017 | You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay | |
| 2024 | My First Film | Zia Anger | Co-edited with Matthew Hannam |
| Bird | Andrea Arnold |
Documentaries
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog | |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | ||
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | ||
| 2004 | The White Diamond | ||
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | ||
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | ||
| 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Marina Zenovich | |
| 2010 | The Tillman Story | Amir Bar-Lev | Co-edited with Joshua Altman and Gabriel Rhodes |
| All That Glitters | Tomas Kudrna | ||
| Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Werner Herzog | Co-edited with Maya Hawke | |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov | ||
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | Werner Herzog | |
| 2012 | On Death Row | TV documentary series | |
| 2013 | Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden | Greg Barker | TV documentary |
| 2014 | Tales of the Grim Sleeper | Nick Broomfield | |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | Werner Herzog | |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | Co-edited with Amy Foote and Brian A. Kates |
| 2025 | Remake | Ross McElwee |
External links
- at IMDb