Film Industry Role: Editor
Nationality: British
Major Works: 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Sicario (2015)
Major Awards and Nominations: Nomination to a Oscar and BAFTA (2013), winner Satellite Award (2015)
Joe Walker started at in the BBC’s films department as a sound editor. He progressively become closer with picture editing, and worked on several TV shows for the British TV channel, including Jonathan Creek and The Lakes.
Throughout the years, Joe has collaborated in several films and became a reference in the editing world, who is a frequent collaborator of some of today’s most acclaimed directors, such as Steve McQueen, for whom Walker edited Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), for which he won the award for Best Editor at the European Film Academy, and 12 Years a Slave (2013) for which he was nominated for an Oscar as well as a BAFTA.
In 2015 Joe Walker was awarded the Satellite Award for Best Editor for his work on the film Sicario (2015) – a film that also marks the beginning of his work relationship with Denis Villeneuve: Walker is the editor of Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
