Skip Macdonald
Skip Macdonald is an American film and television editor known for his work on "Breaking Bad", its spin-off series "Better Call Saul", and the 2019 sequel film "". He also edited several episodes for "Fargo". Macdonald has earned a total of ten Emmy Award nominations. In 2014, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for the series finale of "Breaking Bad". Career. Skip Macdonald began his career as an assistant sound editor in the 1980s. During this time, he worked on "Heaven's Gate" (1980), "Things Are Tough All Over", and the Carl Reiner-directed  Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) and "The Man with Two Brains" (1983). After completing "Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers" in 1984, Macdonald made his second collaboration with filmmaker Michael Cimino, after "Heaven's Gate", with "Year of the Dragon" in 1985. Macdonald's first project serving as an assistant film editor was in 1988's television film "Little Girl Lost". In the following years, he assisted with the editing of "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" (1991), the "Perry Mason" film "The Case of the Killer Kiss" (1993), "" and "Nell" (1994), "Kansas" and "In Pursuit of Honor  (1995), and Primal Fear" (1996). In 1997, Macdonald had his "" after becoming an editor for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". In 2008, Macdonald began editing the Vince Gilligan-created series "Breaking Bad", a show that received universal acclaim and earned Macdonald (following three other nominations) the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series in 2014 for his work on the series finale. That same year, he worked on the drama series "Fargo" and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie. Macdonald made  his second collaboration with Gilligan on the "Breaking Bad" spin-off series "Better Call Saul", which earned him two more Emmy Award nominations. In 2019, he made his third collaboration with Gilligan on the Netflix film "", a sequel to "Breaking Bad" centered on the character of Jesse Pinkman. The film, which also received universal acclaim from critics, earned Macdonald his tenth and most recent Primetime Emmy Award nomination.