There's no Oscar for casting, but Cindy Tolan's work on "West Side Story" proves there's no doubt the job is critical to the success of a movie.
Martin said that the rhythm of the sport of tennis is crucial in telling the story of how two sisters came to be superstars."You have a lot of balls in the air on that one, and it took a lot fine-tuning to get it right," she said."I didn't know anybody who did this," she said."I was just interested in it.""Really what it boiled down to is, I worked my tail off," she said."And I consistently got recommended by anybody I worked with.
Her career got a boost when she was recommended to two filmmakers who would later be nominated for Oscars: Ang Lee, who has won multiple times, and David O. Russell. Russell's movie"The Fighter" would result in Martin's first Oscar nomination for editing and led directly to"King Richard" and its director Reinaldo Marcus Green.
"Reinaldo told me he came to me to do this movie because two of his references for this film are two movies that I've edited," she said."'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'The Fighter,' and he's a big fan of both."