American Cinema Editors also honor “Coco,” “Jane,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fargo,” “Black-ish” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” at ACE Eddie Awards
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“Dunkirk” and “I, Tonya” won the top feature film awards at the American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Awards on Friday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, putting the former film in a particularly strong position in this year’s Oscar race.
“Dunkirk” editor Lee Smith won the award for the best edited dramatic feature of 2017, while Tatiana S. Riegel of “I, Tonya” won the prize for comedic feature.
Since the ACE Eddies film award was split into separate dramatic and comedy or musical categories in 2000, the winner in the dramatic category has gone on to win the Oscar for film editing 12 times in 18 years, with the comedy or musical ACE winner taking the Oscar once.
In that time, no film has won the Oscar for editing without first being nominated for the ACE Eddie.
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The ACE Eddies announced winners in 10 different categories in a ceremony hosted by Tichina Arnold and featuring appearances by Denis Villeneuve, Mariska Hargitay, Edgar Wright and Gale Anne Hurd.
The Pixar film “Coco” won the award for animated film, while “Jane” won for theatrical documentaries. One of the winning editors for “Jane,” Will Znidaric, also picked up the award for non-theatrical documentary for “Five Came Back.”
Television awards went to “Black-ish” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for commercial and non-commercial comedies and “Fargo” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” for commercial and non-commercial dramas. The first episode of “Genius” was named the best edited TV movie or miniseries.
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Writer-producer Vince Gilligan and editors Mark Goldblatt and Leon Ortiz-Gil received honorary awards at the ceremony.
The winners:
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): “Dunkirk,” Lee Smith Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy): “I, Tonya,” Tatiana S. Riegel Best Edited Feature Film (Animated): “Coco,” Steve Bloom Best Edited Documentary (Feature): “Jane,” Joe Beshenkovsky, Will Znidaric, Brett Morgen Best Edited Documentary (Non-Theatrical): “Five Came Back: The Price of Victory,” Will Znidaric Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television: “Black-ish”: “Lemons,” John Peter Bernardo, Jamie Pedroza Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television: “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: “The Shucker,” Jonathan Corn Best Edited Drama Series for Commercial Television: “Fargo”: “Who Rules the Land of Denial,” Andrew Seklir Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television: “The Handmaid’s Tale”: “Offred,” Julian Clarke & Wendy Hallam Martin Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television: “Genius: Einstein”: “Chapter One,” James D. Wilcox Best Edited Non-Scripted Series: VICE News Tonight: “Charlottesville: Race & Terror,” Tim Clancy, Cameron Dennis, John Chimples & Denny Thomas Student Competition Winner: Mariah Zenk, Missouri State University
Oscars 2018: 8 Biggest Snubs and Surprises, From Tom Hanks to Denzel Washington (Photos)
Every year at the Academy Awards, there are inevitably certain nominees that raise eyebrows in surprise and glaring omissions that furrow those eyebrows in anger. 2018 was no different. Here are some of this year’s snubs and surprises.
SURPRISE: Denzel Washington for “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”: Washington’s portrayal of a lawyer caught in a moral quagmire left critics lukewarm and didn’t make much of an impact at the box office, yet it has earned the beloved actor his ninth Oscar nomination and sixth in the Best Actor category.
SNUB: Tom Hanks for “The Post”: Many awards prognosticators expected that the Best Actor slot taken by Denzel would have gone to Tom Hanks for his portrayal of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Instead, Jason Robards’ performance in “All The President’s Men” remains the only Ben Bradlee to get an Oscar nod.
SURPRISE: Lesley Manville for “Phantom Thread”: Daniel Day Lewis got much of the press for “Phantom Thread,” but Manville has earned some attention for her performance as Reynolds Woodcock’s devoted sister and business partner, who spends the whole film putting up with Reynolds obsessive nonsense.
SNUB: Holly Hunter for “The Big Sick”: Kumail Nanjiani’s true-story dramedy earned a screenplay nomination, but Hunter, who was considered an early contender for Best Supporting Actress last summer for her performance as Kumail’s tough but loving future mother-in-law, ended up sliding out of the final list.
SURPRISE: Paul Thomas Anderson for “Phantom Thread”: It feels weird to call it a surprise that an acclaimed filmmaker like Anderson got a nomination for Best Director, but in such a competitive field, not many awards analysts expected him to sneak in and take a nod for his work immersing audiences in Reynolds Woodcock’s meticulous world. That’s especially considering he managed to beat out…
SNUB: Steven Spielberg for “The Post”: With its paean to journalism and not-so-subtle tweak at Donald Trump, it was expected that Academy voters would go ga-ga over “The Post.” Instead, it’s getting the “Selma” treatment, earning a Best Picture nomination but only getting one other nom for Meryl Streep while Spielberg misses out on an eighth Oscar nomination.
SURPRISE: “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” for Best Documentary Feature: PBS will get a surprise nomination for their powerful recounting about how a small, family-owned bank in New York’s Chinatown became the only bank prosecuted by the feds in the wake of the 2008 recession.
SNUB: “City of Ghosts” for Best Documentary Feature: Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award winning docs like “Last Men In Aleppo” and last year’s Best Short Doc winner, “The White Helmets.” But the Academy didn’t go for this horrifying but moving tale about Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a team of citizen journalists reporting the abuses of ISIS at the risk of their own lives.
