Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever
since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn,
edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award
nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.
O.J. should have broken this category's glass ceiling for nonfiction work — something that hasn't happened
since 1994, when another American epic about race and sports scored an
editing nomination.