This Year’s 67th ACE Eddie Awards Honored The Best in Editing And Delivered A Few Surprises

This year’s 67th Annual Eddie Awards presented by the American Cinema Editors (ACE) was recently held in Los Angeles and the show held a few surprises regarding this year’s winners. The black-tie ceremony was held in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel with over 1,000 in attendance to celebrate.  ACE President Stephen Rivkin, ACE, presided over the evening’s festivities with actress Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) serving as the evening’s host.

American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950.  Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing. The objectives and purposes of the American Cinema Editors are to advance the art and science of the editing profession; to increase the entertainment value of motion pictures by attaining artistic pre-eminence and scientific achievement in the creative art of editing; to bring into close alliance those editors who desire to advance the prestige and dignity of the editing profession.

Zootopia (edited by Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and O.J.: Made in America  (edited by Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).

Television winners included Veep: Morning After (edited by Steven Rasch, ACE) for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television, This is Us: Pilot (edited by David L. Bertman, ACE) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial television and Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards (edited by Tim Porter, ACE) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television.

Here are all of this year’s recipients of the ACE Eddie Award:

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC)
Arrival
Joe Walker, ACE

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY)
La La Land
Tom Cross, ACE

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Zootopia
Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
O.J.: Made in America
Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION)
Everything Is Copy – Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted
Bob Eisenhardt, ACE

BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION
Veep: Morning After
Steven Rasch, ACE

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
This is Us: “Pilot”
David L. Bertman, ACE

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards
Tim Porter, ACE

BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION
All the Way
Carol Littleton, ACE

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Senegal
Mustafa Bhagat

STUDENT COMPETITION
Tommy Wakefield  – University of North Carolina, School of the Arts

Groundbreaking director/producer J.J. Abrams received the organization’s prestigious ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor, which was presented to him by friend and collaborator Jeff Garlin.  Abrams joins an impressive list of filmmakers who have received ACE’s highest honor, including Norman Jewison, Nancy Meyers, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, Alexander Payne, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Frank Marshall and Richard Donner, among others.

Janet Ashikaga, ACE and Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE were presented with Career Achievement awards by Thomas Schlamme and Martin Scorsese respectively.  Their work was highlighted with clip reels exhibiting their tremendous contributions to film and television throughout their careers.

PHOTO CREDIT: The above photo, taken by Linda Treydte, shows Fabienne Rawley and Jeremy Milton posing with their Eddie’s for winning Best Animated Feature Film for their work on Zootopia.

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