Joe Bini | |
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Born | 1963 San Mateo, California |
Joe Bini (born Giuseppe Gaetano Bini; 1963) is an American film editor.
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 (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 edited Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) for BBC Films and Independent and American Honey (2016) with director Andrea Arnold. He is editing the upcoming film You Were Never Really Here directed by Ramsay.
He is father to Elia Bini. He is currently married to filmmaker Maya Hawke.
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.
Won Primetime Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Writing For Non Fiction Programming for his work on Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. Also nominated that year for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming for the same film.
Was awarded Prix Vulcain De L’Artuste-Technicien, Special Distinction at Cannes Film Festival 2011 for his work on We Need to Talk About Kevin.