American Sniper Shoots Down Selma in ACE Eddie Nominations

Now that the haze of champagne has worn off, it’s time to get back to business. It’s guilds time! Kicking off the industry’s parade of branch-specific awards today was the American Cinema Editors guild, who released their nominations in four categories today for the award with the cutest name of the season, the ACE Eddie Award. The most important ones are obviously those for Dramatic and Comedy/Musical Feature Film. There were no real surprises there, except perhaps the fact that they managed to squeeze in six nominations in the former, and shunned Selma. Instead, we got American Sniper, the season’s ultra-late release that might start its surge right on time. Which of these eleven films will make it into the final five at Oscar? Come discuss it with us in our forums.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC)
American Sniper (Joel Cox, ACE & Gary Roach, ACE)
Boyhood (Sandra Adair, ACE)
Gone Girl (Kirk Baxter, ACE)
The Imitation Game (William Goldenberg, ACE)
Nightcrawler (John Gilroy, ACE)
Whiplash (Tom Cross)

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
Birdman (Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione, ACE)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Barney Pilling)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne, ACE & Craig Wood, ACE)
Inherent Vice (Leslie Jones, ACE)
Into the Woods (Wyatt Smith)

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Big Hero 6 (Tim Mertens)
The Boxtrolls (Edie Ichioka, ACE)
The LEGO Movie (David Burrows & Chris McKay)

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Citizenfour (Mathilde Bonnefoy)
Finding Vivian Maier (Aaron Wickenden)
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (Elisa Bonora)

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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.

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