“King Richard” got a big boost in its bid for Best Editing at the Oscars with a win at the ACE Golden Eddie Awards on March 6. It prevailed in the drama race at these awards bestowed by American Cinema Editors over two of its Oscar rivals –“Dune” and “The Power of the Dog” — as well as “Belfast” and “No Time to Die.”
Another of the Oscar nominees, “tick, tick…BOOM!,” won the comedy/musical category over the fifth Oscar contender, “Don’t Look Up,” plus “Cruella,” “The French Dispatch” and “Licorice Pizza.”
Since 1990, the film that came up with one of the ACEs went on to take home the top prize at the Academy Awards 18 times, including the 2020 winner for best drama editing, “Parasite.” And in nine of the 13 years when the ACE barometer was wrong, at least one of the Eddie champs was a contender for Best Picture. Last year’s drama winner, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” lost the top Oscar to “Nomadland.”
In 2019, both ACE winners — the drama “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the comedy “The Favourite” — numbered among the Best Picture nominees to lose the top Oscar to “Green Book.” In 2008 neither of the Eddie winners — The Bourne Ultimatum” nor “Sweeney Todd” — made the final five contenders for Best Picture at the Oscars, and in 2000 the same fate befell “The Matrix” and “Being John Malkovich.” And prior to the split, 1990 ACE winner “Glory” was shut out of the Best Picture line-up.
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)
Belfast , Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, ACE, BFE
Dune, Joe Walker, ACE
X – King Richard , Pamela Martin, ACE
No Time to Die, Tom Cross, ACE, Elliot Graham, ACE
The Power of the Dog, Peter Sciberras
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
Cruella, Tatiana S. Riegel ACE
Don’t Look Up, Hank Corwin, ACE
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, Andrew Weisblum, ACE
Licorice Pizza, Andy Jurgensen
X – tick, tick…BOOM!, Myron Kerstein, ACE, Andrew Weisblum, ACE
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
X – Encanto, Jeremy Milton, ACE
Luca, Catherine Apple, ACE, Jason Hudak
The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Greg Levitan
Raya and the Last Dragon, Fabienne Rawley, ACE, Shannon Stein
Sing 2, Gregory Perler, ACE
Best Edited Documentary (Feature)
Flee, Janus Billeskov Jansen
The Rescue, Bob Eisenhardt, ACE
X – Summer of Soul……Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised, Joshua L. Pearson
Val, Ting Poo, Leo Scott
The Velvet Underground, Affonso Gonçalves, ACE, Adam Kurnitz
Best Edited Documentary (Non-Theatrical)
100 Foot Wave “Sea Monsters”, Abhay Sofsky, Adrienne Gits, Connor Culhane, Brandon Valentin
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything “Starman”, Sam Blair
Allen V. Farrow “Episode 1”, Mikaela Shwer, Parker Laramie & Sara Newens
X – The Beatles: Get Back “Episode 3”, Jabez Olssen
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Greg Finton, ACE, Lindsay Utz, ACE
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