Joe Bini


Joe Bini is an American film editor.

Life

Bini was born in San Mateo, California to Aurora Cerro Bini and Louis John Bini. 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, Invincible, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, and Encounters at the End of the World, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Bini edited Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin for BBC Films and Independent and American Honey with director Andrea Arnold. He edited the 2017 film You Were Never Really Here, directed by Ramsay.
He is father to Elia Bini. He is currently married to filmmaker Maya Hawke.

Sundance Film Festival

Bini was a member of the Jury in the Documentary category for the. He also won the 2008 Documentary Editing Award for editing .

Emmy Awards

Won Primetime Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Writing For Non Fiction Programming for his work on . Also nominated that year for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming for the same film.

Cannes Film Festival

Was awarded Prix Vulcain de L’Artiste-Technicien, Special Distinction at Cannes Film Festival 2011 for his work on We Need to Talk About Kevin.