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)