75th ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Wicked’ Top Winners for Film Editing

Erik Anderson March 15, 2025

American Cinema Editors (ACE) last night revealed the winners for the 75th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, with surprise wins in the feature film categories where musicals Emilia Pérez and Wicked bested their competition.

It ended in what was the most tumultuous category race of the season, with a different film winning every major precursor all the way up to the Oscars. Challengers won Critics Choice (but was Oscar snubbed), Conclave won BAFTA, Emilia Pérez and Wicked won ACE (in drama and comedy categories, respectively) and Anora won the Oscar. The ACE Eddies recognized outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, television and documentaries. The winners were announced at the live ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Friday night.

With both presumptive frontrunners, Conclave and Anora, losing here it’s hard to say if it would have had any impact on Oscar voters had the ACE Eddies been a proper chronological precursor. The awards were delayed from their January 18 ceremony due to the L.A. wildfires that halted all events in the city at the time and would have come one day after Oscar nomination voting ended but nearly a month before winner voting began. Ultimately, ACE nominees Anora, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and Wicked were all nominated for the film editing Oscar alongside The Brutalist. For Emilia Pérez, voting on ACE winners came long before the tweetstorm controversy around star Karla Sofía Gascón and stands as one of the very few major guild wins for the film after the late January reveal of her offensive comments.

For animated features, while Flow bested The Wild Robot at the Oscars, the latter was quite the guild champion all season and triumphed here with the win for best animated feature film.

In television, you can only align Emmy wins so far as guilds use a calendar year release vs the Emmy calendar of June 1 – May 31. That didn’t stop Shōgun and Baby Reindeer from repeating their Emmy wins with the same episodes (“A Dream of A Dream” and “Episode 4,” respectively), but in comedy series What We Do in the Shadows was a big upset for The Bear, which had won this ACE category for the last two years in a row.

Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu received the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film. Film editors Maysie Hoy, ACE and Paul Hirsch, ACE received Career Achievement Awards for their outstanding contributions to film editing.

The show pivoted from a Black-Tie, red carpet event to a “Come as You Are” community-building fundraiser with a portion of ticket sales being donated to LA wildfire relief.

And with that, we close the 2024/2025 film awards season. Here is the full list of winners of the 75th ACE Eddie Awards.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)

Civil War – Jake Roberts, ACE

Conclave – Nick Emerson

Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker, ACE

Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling (winner)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel, ACE

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical)

Anora – Sean Baker

Challengers – Marco Costa

A Real Pain – Robert Nassau

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, Valentin Féron

Wicked – Myron Kerstein, ACE (winner)

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Flow – Gints Zilbalodis

Inside Out 2 – Maurissa Horwitz

Moana 2 – Jeremy Milton, ACE, Michael Louis Hill

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Dan Hembery

The Wild Robot – Mary Blee (winner)

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Beatles ’64 – Mariah Rehmet, ACE

Jim Henson Idea Man – Sierra Neal; Paul Crowder, ACE

Her Name was Moviola – Howard Berry

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Otto Burnham

Will & Harper – Monique Zavistovski, ACE (winner)

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Chimp Crazy (102 – “Gone Ape”) – Evan Wise, ACE; Charles Divak, ACE; Adrienne Gits, ACE; Doug Abel, ACE (winner)

The Jinx – Part Two (203 – “Saving My Tears Until It’s Official”) – Richard Hankin, ACE; Charles Olivier

Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (102 – “Hidden in Plain Sight”) – Daphne Gómez-Mena; Jane Jo, ACE

STEVE! (Martin) a Documentary in 2 Pieces (101 – “Then”) – Alan Lowe

STEVE! (Martin) a Documentary in 2 Pieces (102 – “Now”) – Jeff Malmberg, ACE; Aaron I. Naar

BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

Frasier (207 – “My Brilliant Sister”) – Russell Griffin, ACE (winner)

Poppa’s House (102 – “Sleepover”) – Angel Gamboa Bryant, ACE

The Upshaws (506 – “Do I”) – Angel Gamboa Bryant, ACE; Brian LeCoz

BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

The Bear (301 – “Tomorrow”) – Joanna Naugle, ACE

Curb Your Enthusiasm (1206 – “The Gettysburg Address”) – Steven Rasch, ACE

Nobody Wants This (101 – “Pilot”) – Maura Corey, ACE

Only Murders in the Building (410 – “My Best Friend’s Wedding”) – Shelly Westerman, ACE; Payton Koch

What We Do in the Shadows (603 – “Sleep Hypnosis”) – Liza Cardinale, ACE; Dane McMaster, ACE (winner)

BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES

3 Body Problem (105 – “Judgment Day”) – Michael Ruscio, ACE

Fallout (101 – “The End”) – Ali Comperchio

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (101 – “First Date”) – Kyle Reiter, ACE; Isaac Hagy, ACE

Shōgun (110 – “A Dream of A Dream”) – Maria Gonzales, ACE; Aika Miyake (winner)

Slow Horses (401 – “Identity Theft”) – Robert Frost

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL)

Am I OK? – Kayla M. Emter, ACE; Glen Scantlebury, ACE

Road House – Doc Crotzer, ACE (winner)

Unfrosted – Evan Henke, ACE

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES

Baby Reindeer (104 – “Episode 4”) – Peter H. Oliver; Benjamin Gerstein (winner)

Disclaimer (105 – “V”) – Adam Gough, ACE, BFE

Fargo (510 – “Bisquik”) – Regis Kimble

The Penguin (101 – “After Hours”) – Henk van Eeghen, ACE

Ripley (105 – “V Lucio”) – Joshua Raymond Lee; David O. Rogers

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES

Conan O’Brien Must Go (104 – “Ireland”) – Matthew Shaw; Brad Roelandt

Couples Therapy (401) – Ryan Loeffler; Eileen Meyer

Welcome to Wrexham (305 – “Temporary”) – Tim Wilsbach, ACE; Steve Welch, ACE; Michael Brown; Michael Oliver; Tim Roche; Matt Wafaie; Jenny Krochmal (winner)

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL

Ali Wong: Single Lady – Sean Hubbert

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. (104 – “Paranormal”) – Kelly Lyon, ACE; Sean McIlraith; Ryan McIlraith

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1103 – “Boeing”) – Anthony Miale, ACE (winner)

BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES

Bob’s Burgers (1413 – “Butt, Sweat, and Fears”) – Stephanie Earley, ACE; Jeremy Reuben, ACE

The Simpsons (3514 – “Night of the Living Wage”) – Don Barrozo

X-Men ’97 (105 – “Remember It”) – Michelle McMillan (winner)

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.