This year we start the editing section with "Arrival". What I can say is that "Sicario", which was edited by the same Joe Walker and directed also by Denis Villeneuve seemed to have a better cut than what's seen here. But we don't have "Sicario" among the nominations, just "Arrival"...
The editing of "Hacksaw Ridge" is probably besides the directing the strongest asset of this movie. I won't deny that's probably more permissive given the context to get maximum out of a scene cut for a war movie, but even so you have to know how to. And here it's almost perfect.
"Hell or High Water" it's just for filling the section. The movie is good, but for the editing the chase sequence below is probably the only standing out with anything.
And we're getting to "La La Land" where you have some interesting glimpses along the movie with transitions between slow and fast scenes, colored or more gray-ish, but the "coup-de-grace" comes in the end. The dream sequence in flashback, which I wasn't able to find anywhere available online, shows the impact that editing can have in a movie.
"Moonlight" is somewhere at the level of "Arrival". We're moving through three different periods in the life of a person who are not edited very differently, although this split could've been more interestingly speculated. Scene by scene though the work is nice, but not really at the level of some of the above.
Verdict: I think "La La Land" will get this.
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