He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005) and Ford v Ferrari (2019), winning the latter.
It's not just splicing two pieces of film together but compressing time, leading the audience, telling the story through images and dialogue.
After graduation, he attended Emerson College, obtaining a bachelor of fine arts degree in film theory and production in 1988.
[4] After graduating from Emerson, McCusker drove across country to West Hollywood, California, where he obtained work as a production assistant.
He became interested in film editing and became an assistant editor on a Showtime anthology called Fallen Angels.