The American Cinema Editors (ACE) gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1988. [1]
Michael Kahn is an American film editor known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg. His first collaboration with Spielberg was for his 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He has edited all of Spielberg's subsequent films except for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which was edited by Carol Littleton. Kahn has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), which were all Spielberg-directed films.
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal letters "ACE". The organization's "Eddie Awards" are routinely covered in trade magazines such as The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. The society is not an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E., to which an editor might also belong. The current President of ACE is Kevin Tent, who was elected in 2020.
Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor, known for her over fifty years of work with director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980). Schoonmaker has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raging Bull, The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), which were all Scorsese-directed films.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors, awarded to what members of the American Cinema Editors Guild deem as the best edited dramatic film for a given year.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors, awarded to what members of the American Cinema Editors Guild deem as the best edited comedic film for a given year.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Animated Feature Film is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. This award was first given out in 2010.
The 64th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards, which were presented on February 7, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honored the best editors in films and television.
Ernst Ragnar Rolf, better known as Tom Rolf, was a Swedish-born American film editor who worked on at least 48 feature films in a career spanning over fifty years. Most notable among these films are Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, for which he was nominated for the 1976 BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff, for which he and his editing team won the 1983 Oscar for Best Film Editing. Other notable films he edited include WarGames, Jacob's Ladder, Heat and The Horse Whisperer.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. It has evolved throughout the history of the American Cinema Editors Awards, narrowing it's eligibility field numerous times.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Drama Series for Commercial Television is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. It has evolved throughout the history of the American Cinema Editors Awards, narrowing it's eligibility field numerous times.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. It has evolved throughout the history of the American Cinema Editors Awards, narrowing it's eligibility field numerous times.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. It has evolved throughout the history of the American Cinema Editors Awards, narrowing its eligibility field numerous times.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary – Feature is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors, awarded to what members of the American Cinema Editors Guild deem as the best edited feature documentary film for a given year. Until 2013, this category included television documentaries, both single films and episodes of documentary series.
The 70th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards was presented on January 17, 2020, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honoring the best editors in films and television. The nominees were announced on December 11, 2019.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary – (Non-Theatrical) is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. The award was first presented at the 2013 ceremony, prior to that year both film and television documentaries competed in the same category, the Best Edited Documentary – Feature award.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Animation – (Non-Theatrical) is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. The award was first presented at the 2021 ceremony.
The Best Edited Variety Talk/Sketch Show or Special is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. The award was first presented at the 2021 ceremony.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Non-Scripted Series is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. The award was first presented at the 2008 ceremony.
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors. It has evolved throughout the history of the American Cinema Editors Awards, narrowing it's eligibility field numerous times.
The 72nd American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards were presented on March 5, 2022, at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, honoring the best editors in films and television of 2021. The nominees were announced on January 27, 2022. Debbie Allen and Richard Chew both received the Career Achievement Award.