
Joe Bini
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Joe Bini is an American film editor, born in 1963 in San Mateo, California, best known for his two-decade collaboration with Werner Herzog, having edited twenty-seven of his documentaries and narrative features, including Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007), the Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (2007), and Into the Inferno (2016). He won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming and the 2008 Documentary Editing Award for Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, and has also edited narrative features for Andrea Arnold (American Honey) and Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here). He served on the documentary jury at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and edited Remake (2025), directed by Ross McElwee.
Known for
Credits

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Editor

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Editor

You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Editor

Queen of the Desert (2015)
Editor

Rescue Dawn (2007)
Editor

American Honey (2016)
Editor

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Editor

Bird (2024)
Editor

Grizzly Man (2005)
Editor

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)
Editor

My Best Fiend (1999)
Editor

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Editor

Invincible (2001)
Editor

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Editor

Salt and Fire (2016)
Editor

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Editor

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Editor

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Editor

The Tillman Story (2010)
Editor

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
Editor

La Bohème (2009)
Editor

Into the Abyss (2011)
Editor

Wings of Hope (1999)
Editor

My First Film (2024)
Editor

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
Editor

Wheel of Time (2003)
Editor

Into the Inferno (2016)
Editor

Pilgrimage (2001)
Editor

From One Second to the Next (2013)
Editor

Remake (2026)
Editor

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Editor

The White Diamond (2004)
Editor

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session (2005)
Editor

Burden of Other People's Dreams (—)
Editor
Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede (2026)
Editor
Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023 (—)
Editor
Numb (2003)
Editor





