Tom Cross is an American television and film editor. He is known for his collaborations with Damien Chazelle, including Whiplash (2014), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, as well as La La Land (2016) and First Man (2018). Tom has a Vietnamese mother, Mrs. Loc Vo—a painter originally from Hue—and his father is Jim Cross. In 1993, he graduated with a degree in visual arts from Purchase College, New York State. He began his career in 1997 as an assistant editor, contributi ...