76th American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘The Pitt’ Take Top Wins

Sinners and One Battle After Another have topped the feature film winners of the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards presented by American Cinema Editors (ACE), announced tonight from UCLA’s Royce Hall in a ceremony hosted by actor and comedian Asif Ali.

Sinners editor Michael P. Shawver took home the ACE for theatrical drama while Andy Jurgensen’s work on One Battle After Another earned him the award for theatrical comedy. Both Shawver and Jurgensen are Oscar-nominated for their work alongside fellow ACE nominees Stephen Mirrione (F1), Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme) and Olivier Bugge Coutté (Sentimental Value). In head to head competition, F1 previously won Critics Choice while One Battle After Another won BAFTA last weekend.

In looking at how ACE compares with the Oscars’ film editing category, just last year saw Emilia Pérez (drama) and Wicked (comedy) both lose to Anora, one of Sean Baker’s four individual wins that night. Recent drama winners have included Oppenheimer, Top Gun: Maverick and King Richard while comedy winners have been The Holdovers, Everything Everywhere All At Once and tick, tick…Boom! Of the 10 ACE winners this decade so far only Oppenheimer and Everything Everywhere All At Once have repeated their wins at the Oscars and, incidentally, were also the Best Picture winners in their respective years. Both also won this award at BAFTA first.

KPop Demon Hunters won animated feature film for Nathan Schauf and Viridiana Lieberman won documentary feature film for The Perfect Neighbor.

The Pitt, The Studio, The Penguin and Pee-Wee as Himself were among the television winners.

For the first time, the ACE Eddies recognized shorts and digital content, with the Oscar-nominated documentary short All the Empty Rooms among the winners.

The ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film, was presented to two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee. Kim Larson, Managing Director and Head of YouTube’s Creator and Gaming team, accepted YouTube’s ACE Visionary Award, and Emmy winning editor/director Arthur Forney, ACE, and Oscar-nominated editor Robert Leighton received ACE Career Achievement awards. Actor and comedian Asif Ali hosted the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards.

Here is the complete list of winners.

EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical): Sinners, Michael P. Shawver 

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical): One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: KPop Demon Hunters, Nathan Schauf

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: The Perfect Neighbor, Viridiana Lieberman 

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES: Pee-wee as Himself – Part One, Damian Rodriguez

BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES: Frasier (“Murder Most Finch”), Russell Griffin, ACE

BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES: The Studio (“The Promotion”), Eric Kissack, ACE

BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES: The Pitt (“6:00pm”), Mark Strand, ACE

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL): A Winter’s Song, Yvette M. Amirian, ACE 

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES: The Penguin (“A Great or Little Thing”), Henk van Eeghen, ACE

BEST EDITED REALITY SERIES: Conan O’Brien Must Go (“Austria”), Matthew Shaw, ACE; Brad Roelandt

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL: Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special

Paul Del Gesso
Christopher Salerno
Ryan Spears
Sean Mcilraith, ACE
Ryan Mcilraith
Daniel Garcia 

BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES: South Park (“Twisted Christian”)

David List
Nate Pellettieri

BEST EDITED SHORT: All The Empty Rooms

Erin Casper, ACE
Stephen Maing
Jeremy Medoff

ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING: Luis Barragan – California State University, Fullerton

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