John Waters To Be Honored by American Cinema Editors (ACE) Filmmaker of the Year Award
American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced today that the organization will honor acclaimed director John Waters with the esteemed ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing an artist who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film.
As previously announced, ACE will also bestow career achievement honors to film editors Kate Amend, ACE and Walter Murch, ACE for their outstanding career contributions to film editing and Stephen Lovejoy, ACE will receive the ACE Heritage Award in recognition of his unwavering commitment to advancing the image of the film editor, cultivating respect for the editing profession, and tireless dedication to the American Cinema Editors. All honors will be presented at the 74th annual ACE Eddie Awards on March 3, 2024 at UCLA’s Royce Hall where winners will also be announced in 13 categories recognizing the best film editing achievements of the year.
“John Waters isn’t just a filmmaking icon,” stated ACE president Kevin Tent, ACE, “He’s a punk rock poet of the picture palace. With each frame, he challenges norms, skewers societal hypocrisies, and explodes cinematic expectations with subversive wit and audacious style. His films crackle with an anarchic energy that’s as intoxicating as it is hilarious and poignant. ACE is proud to celebrate his singular artistic vision that has entertained the hell out of generations.”
Past recipients of the Golden Eddie include Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Kathleen Kennedy, Christopher Nolan, Lauren Shuler Donner, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, J.J. Abrams, Nancy Meyers, Martin Scorsese, Norman Jewison, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, and the Sundance Institute, among others. Past recipients of the ACE Career Achievement Award include Lynne Willingham, ACE; Don Zimmerman, ACE; Lillian Benson, ACE; Richard Chew, ACE; Alan Heim, ACE; Tina Hirsch, ACE; Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE; Janet Ashikaga, ACE; Craig McKay, ACE; Jerrold L. Ludwig, ACE; Mark Goldblatt, ACE; and Leon Ortiz-Gil, ACE; among many others. Past recipients of the Heritage Award include Randy Roberts, ACE; George Grenville, ACE; Ted Rich, ACE; Ellen Galvin; Dianna Friedberg, ACE; and Lori Coleman, ACE.
Nominations for the 74th Annual ACE Eddie Awards will be announced January 25.
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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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