Shelly Westerman

{{short description|American television and film editor}}

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Shelly Westerman is an American television and film editor.{{Cite web|url=https://cinemontage.org/shelly-westerman-on-editing-for-nora-ephron-only-murders-in-the-building-and-more/|title=Shelly Westerman on Editing for Nora Ephron, ‘Only Murders In the Building,’ and More|website=cinemontage.org|access-date=2024-10-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2024/09/cutting-clues-with-only-murders-in-the-building-emmy-nominated-editors-shelly-westerman-and-payton-koch/|title=Picking Apart the Pickwick Triplets with “Only Murders in the Building” Emmy-Nom’d Editors Shelly Westerman and Payton Koch|website=motionpictures.org|access-date=2024-10-18}} She is best known for her work on Only Murders in the Building, Halston, Ratched, American Crime Story.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/from-ratched-to-halston-one-editors-literal-double-take/|title=From ‘Ratched’ to ‘Halston’: One Editor’s Literal Double Take|website=thewrap.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/american-crime-story-versace-episode-8-matt-bomer-creator-destroyer-1201938779/|title=‘American Crime Story: Versace’ Director Matt Bomer on Bringing Three Different Continents to Life Within L.A. City Limits|website=indiewire.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/wedding-ringer-film-review-763977/|title=‘The Wedding Ringer’: Film Review|website=hollywoodreporter.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

Westerman is a member of American Cinema Editors, and has previously served as an editing thesis mentor at the AFI Conservatory.{{Cite web|url=https://conservatory.afi.com/production-faculty/|title=PRODUCTION MENTORS|website=conservatory.afi.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

Selected filmography

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Year

!Title

! Contribution

! Note

2022–2024

| Only Murders in the Building

| Editor and co-producer

| 12 episodes

2021

| Halston

| Editor and producer

| 5 episodes

2020

| Ratched

| Editor

| 4 episodes

2019

| The Politician

| Editor

| 3 episodes

2018–2019

| Pose

| Editor

| 4 episodes

2018

| The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

| Editor

| 3 episodes

2017

| Time After Time

| Editor

| 3 episodes

2017

| Feud: Bette and Joan

| Editor

| 2 episodes

2016–2019

| American Horror Story

| Editor

| 2 episodes

2016

| Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life

| Editor

| 6 episodes

2015

| The Wedding Ringer

| Editor

| Feature film

2014

| About Last Night

| Editor

| Feature film

Awards and nominations

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Year

!Result

!Award

!Category

!Work

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rowspan="2"|2024

|style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|Primetime Emmy Awards

|Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series

|rowspan="2"|Only Murders in the Building : "Sitzprobe"

|{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/shelly-westerman-ace|title=Awards & Nominations|website=emmys.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|rowspan="2"|American Cinema Editors Awards

|rowspan="2"|Best Edited Single-Camera Comedy Series

|{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/ace-eddie-awards-nominations-2024-barbie-oppenheimer-killers-flower-moon-taylor-swift-1235887261/|title=‘Past Lives,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Among ACE Eddie Awards Nominations|website=variety.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

rowspan="2"|2023

|style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|Only Murders in the Building : "I Know Who Did It"

|{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/ace-eddie-awards-nominations-2023-list-1235246166/|title=ACE Eddie Awards Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Woman King’, ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ & More|website=deadline.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|BFE Cut Above Awards

|Best Edited Series Comedy

|Only Murders in the Building

|{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishfilmeditors.co.uk/post/british-film-editors-cut-above-awards-2023-nominations-list|title=British Film Editors Cut Above Awards 2023 Nominations List|website=britishfilmeditors.co.uk|access-date=2024-10-18}}

2018

|style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|Primetime Emmy Awards

|Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

|American Crime Story : "House by the Lake"

|{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/5334545/emmy-nominations-2018/|title=Here Are the 2018 Emmy Nominations

|website=time.com|access-date=2024-10-18}}

References

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