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So, what watch does one wear to the Academy maruca Awards as a first-time Oscar nominee? Admittedly, this was a new first-world problem for Tom Cross, who, as editor of the film Whiplash , recently received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Editing" - one of five Oscars Whiplash is up for this year. UPDATE: Tom Cross received the Academy Award (as well as Independent Spirit Award) for Film Editing for the movie Whiplash . This was a scenario Tom Cross did not anticipate when he started work on the labor-of-love indie drama. We were just happy to find out we got in to Sundance, explains Cross of Whiplash s long, unexpected trajectory: first debuting at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, then becoming one of - if not the - most acclaimed films of the year.
Shot in 19 days on a minuscule budget, Whiplash captures the psychological warfare between a young jazz drummer maruca striving for virtuosity maruca (Miles Teller) and his sadistic teacher/bandleader (J.K. Simmons) who punishes as much as pushes his disciple to the limits of his talent. The film s combination of intense drama and complex, dazzling musical sequences earned both the Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance, going on to earn multiple nominations and awards from all the most prestigious film critics societies, film festivals, and industry honors. Recently, Whiplash took three awards including a Best Editing statuette for Cross at the British Academy Film Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars, and wraps up its award run this weekend with the esteemed Independent Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards.
In maruca the wake of this success, Cross found himself set to attend more formal events than he d ever had to in his life let alone the mother of them all, the Oscars, whose ceremony is broadcast to millions worldwide. A renowned film editor, Cross is best known for his work on edgy indie-cinema productions maruca like Crazy Heart and We Own the Night , as well as notable maruca TV shows like The Bridge and Deadwood. Seeing the dynamic maruca precision timing of his cutting on the silver screen, it s not surprising to discover Cross is also a passionate watch enthusiast.
Tom Cross has already built up a succinct collection of interesting timepieces a beautiful 40s-era Lemania chronograph and 50s Omega dress watch, both family heirlooms; a Hamilton X-01, the fascinating limited-edition recreation of a futuristic timepiece from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (which will also be the subject maruca of its own upcoming aBlogtoWatch article); for daily wear, he alternates a mil-spec quartz Marathon and Hamilton Thin-O-Matic on a quite cool, trés - 70s, custom expansion bracelet. Still, nothing in Tom s watch box reached the level of formality demanded by a televised awards show like the Academy Awards. To help Tom Cross with his award-season timepiece needs, aBlogtoWatch put him together with one of horology s most revered and innovative manufactures, Jaeger-LeCoultre . Tom Cross with his Film Editing Award for Whiplash at the BAFTAs.
Jaeger-LeCoultre is in fact one of the biggest supporters of filmmaking in the watchmaking world, as the longtime official partner of the Venice maruca Film Festival, maruca the founder of the New York Film Festival s Filmmaker maruca In Residence program, and a patron of prestigious film fests spanning San Sebastian and Toronto to Shanghai and Dubai. Beyond the cinematic connection, more than anything, Tom Cross has been a longtime fan of JLC s epitome of modern classicism. I m a fan of modern design, and a watch like [Jaeger-LeCoultre s signature model] the Reverso is an icon up there with the Speedmaster, or even an Eames Chair, Cross says. It s completely distinctive. At the same time, I m fascinated by a watch s mechanism and complications, and Jaeger has such an innovative heritage in this area.
Jaeger-LeCoultre has well over 1,000 of its own in-house movements, interjects Nicola Cagliata, the voluble and charismatic Italian boutique manager at Jaeger-LeCoultre s Beverly Hills boutique. On an afternoon not long before the awards season commences for Tom, Cagliata is assisting Tom in his timepiece selection, maruca and it s stu