Mad Max: Fury Road and The Big Short both took important steps before the Oscars last night with victories at the American Cinema Editors’ 66th annual ACE Eddie Awards.
Mad Max: Fury Road’s Margaret Sixel won the award for Best Edited Feature Film (Drama). Hank Corwin won Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy/Musical) for The Big Short.
Both editors are up for the Academy Award for Best Editing, which is a historically important award for Best Picture winners. The other nominees for the Oscar are The Revenant’s Stephen Mirrione, Spotlight’s Tom McArdle and Star Wars: The Force Awakens team Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey. Surprisingly, McArdle was not nominated for an Eddie Award.
Last year’s Eddie Award winners were The Grand Budapest Hotel and Boyhood, which both lost the Oscar to Whiplash.
Inside Out won Best Edited Animated Feature. Editor Kevin Nolting also won the award in 2010 for another Pete Docter film, Up. Since the award was created in 2010, the only winner to not win the Best Animated Feature Oscar was last year’s The LEGO Movie, which famously wasn’t even nominated for that prize.
Asif Kapadia’s Amy documentary on Amy Winehouse was named Best Edited Documentary Feature for Chris King’s work.
On the TV side, the winners were:
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION):
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst “A Body in the Bay”
Zac Stuart-Pontier, Richard Hankin, ACE, Caitlyn Greene, Shelby Siegel
BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION:
Inside Amy Schumer: 12 Angry Men
Nick Paley
BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Mad Men: “Person to Person”
Tom Wilson
BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
House of Cards: “Chapter 39”
Lisa Bromwell, ACE
BEST EDITED LONGFORM (MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE) FOR TELEVISION:
Bessie
Brian A. Kates, ACE
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: “Bay Area”
Hunter Gross, ACE