Biography
Michael McCusker, also credited as Mike McCusker, is an American film editor. He graduated from Emerson College with a degree in film theory and production in 1988 and began his career as a production assistant before working as an assistant editor, notably under David Brenner on several films.
McCusker received his first solo editing credit on the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. He has frequently collaborated with director James Mangold on films including 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Logan (2017) and Ford v Ferrari (2019), winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (shared with Andrew Buckland) for the latter. His other credits include The Wolverine (2013), The Girl on the Train (2016), The Greatest Showman (2017) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
McCusker is married to film producer Deirdre Morrison.
