A version of this story about “Ford v Ferrari” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
You might think that the auto-racing scenes in “Ford v Ferrari” would be the biggest challenge for the film’s editors, since the film about the Ford Motor Company’s pursuit of a title at Le Mans in 1966 needs to convey the power, tension and adrenaline of a 24-hour race. But editors Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland said the hard part came much earlier than that, in everything that happened before Christian Bale’s race driver Ken Miles climbs into his Ford GT40.