Tag Archives: American Cinema Editors

It’s back, the Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture nominee. Certain guilds will carry more weight than others; PGA, DGA, SAG over CSA for example. Placements will change, tiers will alter. Once the Best Picture Oscar nominees are announced the Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture Winner will roll out. Check back here as guilds continue to announce their …

The Post, The Shape of Water, Baby Driver and I, Tonya are among the 2018 ACE Eddie Award nominees for film editing from the American Cinema Editors. Categories are broken down between Dramatic and Comedy and while Get Out was placed in Comedy (as it was at the Globes), Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri was too, despite being submitted in …

It’s baaaaack! The Build By Guild: How to Create a Best Picture Nominee chart is up and running once again. We know what it takes to get nominated by each of the individual branches of the Academy but it’s always helpful to know what the guilds are supporting first. Not only does it keep something in the running or out …

The nominations for the American Cinema Editors ACE Eddies were announced this morning and the two major categories (Drama and Comedy) were chock full of Oscar contenders. Frontrunner La La Land was, as predicted, in Comedy (the category used to be called Comedy or Musical) although there was some argument that the modern-day musical could be put into Drama under …

  Not a lot of surprises at last night ACE Eddie Awards where Max Max: Fury Road, The Big Short and Inside Out took the top honors in the Drama, Comedy and Animated categories for Best Edited Feature Films. Amy won the Documentary category. Mad Max: Fury Road and The Big Short will go head to head for the Film …

  Now that the Oscar nominations are out and the guilds (as well as groups like the Golden Globes and BFCA have announced) are underway, the race is starting to take shape. Or, in the case of this season, taking a left turn and changing the race entirely. This weekend, The Big Short bested BFCA winner Spotlight, Golden Globe winner …

  Anne Thompson often says (and I’m paraphrasing) that it takes support from all branches to really make a Best Picture nominee and I agree. While actors make up the majority of the voters in the Academy (1,138, to be exact), when a film has the support of the film editors, the cinematographers and the sound people to build those numbers …

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 …