A slew of top Oscar contenders won the ACE Eddie Awards for Best Editing on Friday night, confirming their status as top Oscar contenders as final Academy voting begins.
When it comes to the best Best Picture nominees Battle after battle and SinnersAt least the American Film Editors Guild didn’t have to decide that One battleAndy Jorgensen and SinnersMichael B. Schover won in the Comedy and Drama categories, respectively. The Oscars only have one editing category, of course, and both ACE Eddie winners are nominated there side by side Emotional value, Marty Supreme and F1 – All were nominated for an ACE Eddies Award between their two major theatrical categories.
Netflix dominated the rest of the feature film lineup, with Demon hunters in kpop“Nathan, look Winning animation and The perfect neighborViridiana Lieberman wins the Documentary Film Award. Both films continue their journey to Oscar night, where they are heavily favored to win – though The perfect neighborThe biggest competition, BAFTA award winning Mr. Nobody is against Putinnot nominated here.
Moving to television, Mark Strand is an awards juggernaut the house Beat the drama, transcendence Andorwhich has already won the equivalent Emmy Award in the fall. studio He stayed strong in comedy, where Eric Kissack won an ACE Eddie Award for the series premiere of The Promotion, just as he did at the Emmys.
Limited series racing was of particular interest, since the individual race Adolescence It wasn’t nominated here (just as it wasn’t in the Emmys editorial race). while Penguin It had three of the five episodes nominated for an Emmy Award, losing to the Television Academy Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Eric Menendezmost likely the result of vote splitting. Here, ACE only nominated Henk van Eeghen for the final series, and he managed to win. It’s an oddly late acknowledgment for the drama, which aired in 2024 — in fact, despite its single season, this is the second straight year for the show’s ACE Eddie nominations because the finale fits into an extended eligibility period.
Held at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the ACE Eddie Awards were hosted by Asif Ali and featured several award specials: the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award went to Ang Lee; YouTube’s Kim Larson received the ACE Visionary Award; Arthur Forney and Robert Layton won ACE Career Achievement Awards. See below for the full list of winners.
Edited feature film (drama, theatre):
Sinners
Michael B. Shufer
Best Feature Film (Comedy, Theater):
Battle after battle
Andy Jorgensen
Best animated feature film:
Demon hunters in kpop
Nathan Shaw
Best Edited Documentary Feature:
The perfect neighbor
Viridiana Lieberman
Best Edited Documentary Series
He urinates himself – Part 1
Damian Rodriguez
Best Comedy Series Edited for Multi-Camera:
Fraser (The Most Finch Murder)
Russell Griffin, ACE
Best Single-Camera Edited Comedy Series:
studio (promotion)
Eric Kissack, ACE
Best Drama Series Editor:
House (6 p.m.)
Mark Strand, ACE
Best Feature Film (Non-Theatrical):
Winter song
Yvette M. Amirian, ACE
Best Editing Limited Series:
Penguin (big or small thing)
Henk van Eeghen, ACE
Best reality series editor:
Conan O’Brien must go (Austria)
Matthew Shaw, ACE
Brad Rowlandt
Best Talk/Variety Show Edited or Special:
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special
Paul del Gesso
Christopher Salerno
Ryan Spears
Sean McElreath, ACE
Ryan McElreath
Daniel Garcia
Best Adapted Animated Series:
South Park“The Crooked Christian.”
David List
Nate Pelletteri
Best short edit:
All empty rooms
Erin Kasper, ACE
Steven Maying
Jeremy Medoff
Anne V. Coates Student Editing Award:
Luis Barragan – California State University, Fullerton
