ACE Eddie Awards: ‘Parasite’ Upsets, Becomes First Non-English Language Winner
The 70th ACE Eddie Awards were handed out last night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and Parasite shocked by winning the guild’s prize for Best Edited Feature (Drama).
Jinmo Yang (read our interview here) won the Best Edited Feature (Drama) category for Parasite over Ford v Ferrari, Joker, The Irishman. They are all also nominated for the Film Editing Oscar. The win marks the first time in ACE Eddie Awards history that a non-English language film has won the top prize. Yang is also the first first-time nominee to win since Bob Murawski and Chris Innis for 2009’s The Hurt Locker, who then went on to win the Oscar.
Jojo Rabbit (editor Tom Eagles) won the Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) category, besting Dolemite Is My Name, The Farewell, Knives Out and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Jojo Rabbit was the only film in the category to also be Oscar-nominated for Film Editing.
Toy Story 4 (edited by Axel Geddes) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and Apollo 11 (edited by Todd Douglas Miller) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).
Television winners included Better Things – “Easter” (edited by Janet Weinberg) for Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television and Fleabag – “Episode 2.1” (edited by Gary Dollner) for Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television. Killing Eve (episode “Desperate Times”) and Game of Thrones (episode “The Long Night”) were the winners for Commercial and Non-Commercial Television, respectively.
Actor Cary Elwes presented the Anne V. Coates Student Editing Award to Chase Johnson of California State University, Fullerton. Lauren Shuler Donner received the organization’s ACE Golden Eddie honor, presented to her by Marvel’s Kevin Feige. Alan Heim and Tina Hirsch received Career Achievement awards presented by filmmakers Nick Cassavetes and Ron Underwood respectively. Cathy Repola, national executive director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, was presented with the ACE Heritage Award.
The 70th ACE Eddie Awards were hosted by The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden. Here is the full list of winners.
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMA)
Ford v Ferrari
Michael McCusker, Andrew Buckland
The Irishman
Thelma Schoonmaker
Joker
Jeff Groth
Marriage Story
Jennifer Lame
Parasite – WINNER
Jinmo Yang
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY):
Dolemite Is My Name
Billy Fox
The Farewell
Michael Taylor, Matthew Friedman
Jojo Rabbit – WINNER
Tom Eagles
Knives Out
Bob Ducsay
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Fred Raskin
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Frozen 2
Jeff Draheim
I Lost My Body
Benjamin Massoubre
Toy Story 4 – WINNER
Axel Geddes
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):
American Factory
Lindsay Utz
Apollo 11 – WINNER
Todd Douglas Miller
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Jake Pushinsky, Heidi Scharfe
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
David J. Turner, Thomas G. Miller
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (NON-THEATRICAL):
Abducted in Plain Sight
James Cude
Bathtubs Over Broadway
Dava Whisenant
Leaving Neverland
Jules Cornell
What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali – WINNER
Jake Pushinsky
BEST EDITED COMEDY SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Better Things: “Easter” – WINNER
Janet Weinberg
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: “I Need To Find My Frenemy”
Nena Erb
The Good Place: “Pandemonium”
Eric Kissack
Schitt’s Creek: “Life is a Cabaret”
Trevor Ambrose
BEST EDITED COMEDY SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Barry: “Berkman”
Kyle Reiter
Dead to Me: Pilot
Liza Cardinale
Fleabag: “Episode 2.1” – WINNER
Gary Dollner
Russian Doll: “The Way Out”
Todd Downing
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Chicago Med: “Never Going Back To Normal”
David J. Siegel
Killing Eve: “Desperate Times” – WINNER
Dan Crinnion
Killing Eve: “Smell Ya Later”
Al Morrow
“Mr. Robot”: “Unauthorized”
Rosanne Tan
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Euphoria: Pilot
Julio C. Perez IV
Game of Thrones: “The Long Night” – WINNER
Tim Porter
Mindhunter: Episode 2
Kirk Baxter
Watchmen: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
David Eisenberg
BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION:
Chernobyl: “Vichnaya Pamyat” – WINNER
Jinx Godfrey, Simon Smith
Fosse/Verdon: “Life is a Cabaret”
Tim Streeto
When They See Us: Part 1
Terilyn A. Shropshire
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Deadliest Catch: “Triple Jeopardy”
Ben Bulatao, Rob Butler, Isaiah Camp, Greg Cornejo, Joe Mikan
Surviving R. Kelly: “All The Missing Girls”
Stephanie Neroes, Sam Citron, LaRonda Morris, Rachel Cushing, Justin Goll, Masayoshi
Matsuda, Kyle Schadt
Vice Investigates: “Amazon on Fire” – WINNER
Cameron Dennis, Kelly Kendrick, Joe Matoske, Ryo Ikegami
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