The American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards, voted on by more than a thousand accomplished editors and Hollywood insiders, released its 2016 nominations today. As expected, awards season heavyweights such as La La Land, Hell or High Water, and Moonlight populate the Best Edited Feature Film categories. But the Eddies also venture into television; the Best Edited One-Hour Series category features episodes from Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Game of Thrones as nominees. Furthermore, the Eddies highlight excellence in documentary editing—a trade akin to writing, as the story emerges through editing—by delineating separate categories, which feature nominees such as Netflix's Amanda Knox documentary and the much-lauded O.J.: Made in America.
Notably, Veteran editor Thelma Schoonmaker was snubbed for her work on Martin Scorsese's Silence. In previous years, she earned Best Editing Oscars for all three of her Scorsese films: Raging Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed.
The Eddie Awards has a good track record of predicting the Oscars. According to Gold Derby, over the past 24 years, 105 of the 120 Oscar nominees for Film Editing first won an Eddie. Additionally, the awards serve as a fairly accurate barometer for the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner: 17 out of the last 26 Best Picture winners were Eddie Award recipients.
The ACE Eddie Awards ceremony will take place on January 27, 2017. This year, J.J. Abrams will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award.
See the full list of 2016 nominations below.
'Arrival'Credit: Paramount Pictures
Arrival
Joe Walker, ACE
Hacksaw Ridge
John Gilbert, ACE
Hell or High Water
Jake Roberts
Manchester by the Sea
Jennifer Lame
Moonlight
Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
Deadpool
Julian Clarke, ACE
Hail, Caesar!
Roderick Jaynes
The Jungle Book
Mark Livolsi, ACE
La La Land
Tom Cross, ACE
The Lobster
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Best Edited Feature Film (Animated)
Kubo and the Two Strings
Christopher Murrie, ACE
Moana
Jeff Draheim, ACE
Zootopia
Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton
'OJ: Made in America'Credit: ESPN Films
13th
Spencer Averick
Amanda Knox
Matthew Hamachek
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Paul Crowder
O.J.: Made in America
Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski
Weiner
Eli B. Despres
Best Edited Documentary: Television
The Choice 2016
Steve Audette, ACE
Everything is Copy
Bob Eisenhart, ACE
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
Oliver Lief
Best Edited Half-Hour Series
Silicon Valley: “The Uptick”
Brian Merken, ACE
Veep: “Morning After”
Steven Rasch, ACE
Veep: “Mother”
Shawn Paper
'Mr. Robot,' Season 2, Episode 6Credit: USA
Better Call Saul: “Fifi”
Skip Macdonald, ACE
Better Call Saul: “Klick”
Skip Macdonald, ACE & Curtis Thurber
Better Call Saul: “Nailed”
Kelley Dixon, ACE & Chris McCaleb
Mr. Robot: “eps2.4m4ster-s1ave.aes”
Philip Harrison
This is Us: “Pilot”
David L. Bertman, ACE
Best Edited One-Hour Series: Non-Commercial
The Crown: “Assassins”
Yan Miles, ACE
Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”
Tim Porter, ACE
Stranger Things: “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”
Dean Zimmerman
Stranger Things: “Chapter Seven: The Bathtub”
Kevin D. Ross
Westworld: “The Original”
Stephen Semel, ACE & Marc Jozefowicz
Best Edited Miniseries of Motion Picture: Non-Theatrical
All the Way
Carol Littleton, ACE
The Night Of: “The Beach”
Jay Cassidy, ACE
The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
Adam Penn, Stewart Schill, ACE & C. Chi-yoon Chung
Best Edited Non-Scripted Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: “Manila”
Hunter Gross, ACE
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Senegal
Mustafa Bhagat
Deadliest Catch: “Fire at Sea: Part 2”
Josh Earl, ACE & Alexander Rubinow, ACE
