Star Wars: The Force Awakens has entered another important Oscar race. The American Cinema Editors nominated the blockbuster, along with Mad Max: Fury Road, at the ACE Eddie Awards.
The Force Awakens and Mad Max will compete for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic, along with The Martian, The Revenant and Sicario. Surprisingly, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight was nowhere to be found, despite being the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.
The nominees for Best Edited Feature Film - Comedic are Marvel’s Ant-Man, The Big Short, Joy, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Trainwreck.
Both Pixar films Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur will compete for Best Edited Animated Film, along with the stop-motion film Anomalisa.
The ACE is very good at predicting the eventual Best Editing Oscar and that win is typically crucial for hopes of a Best Picture Oscar win. Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman broke a 33-year streak of Best Picture winners at least earning a Best Editing nomination.
On the television side, Orange is the New Black scored a surprising nomination for Best Edited Longform for the 90-minute episode “Trust No Bitch.” The Mad Men series finale was nominated for Best Edited One-Hour Series and will compete with two episodes of Better Call Saul.
The ACE Eddie Awards are presented on Jan. 29 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Below is the list of nominees, via Variety.
MOVIE
Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (Margaret Sixel)
“The Martian” (Pietro Scalia, ACE)
“The Revenant” (Stephen Mirrione, ACE)
“Sicario” (Joe Walker, ACE)
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (Maryann Brandon, ACE & Mary Jo Markey, ACE)
Best Edited Feature Film – Comedic
“Ant-Man” (Dan Lebental, ACE & Colby Parker, Jr., ACE)
“The Big Short” (Hank Corwin, ACE)
“Joy” (Jay Cassidy, ACE, Alan Baumgarten, ACE, Christopher Tellefsen, ACE & Tom Cross, ACE)
“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” (David Trachtenberg)
“Trainwreck” (William Kerr, ACE & Paul Zucker)
Best Edited Animated Film
“Anomalisa” (Garret Elkins)
“Inside Out” (Kevin Nolting, ACE)
“The Good Dinosaur” (Stephen Schaffer, ACE)
Best Edited Documentary – Feature
“Amy” (Chris King)
“Cobain: Montage of Heck” (Joe Beshenkovsky & Brett Morgen)
“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” (Andy Grieve)
“He Named Me Malala” (Greg Finton, ACE, Brian Johnson & Brad Fuller)
“The Wrecking Crew” (Claire Scanlon)
TELEVISION
Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television
“Inside Amy Schumer” – “12 Angry Men” (Nick Paley)
“Silicon Valley” – “Two Days of the Condor” (Brian Merken, ACE)
“Veep” – “Election Night” (Gary Dollner)
Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television
“Better Call Saul” – “Five-O” (Kelley Dixon, ACE)
“Better Call Saul” – “Uno” (Skip Macdonald, ACE)
“Fargo” – Did You Do This? No, You Did It!” (Skip Macdonald, ACE & Curtis Thurber)
“The Good Wife” – “Restrain” (Scott Vickrey, ACE)
“Mad Men” – “Person to Person” (Tom Wilson)
Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television
“Game of Thrones” – “The Dance of Dragons” (Katie Weiland)
“Game of Thrones” – “Hardhome” (Tim Porter)
“Homeland” – “The Tradition of Hospitality” (Harvey Rosenstock, ACE)
“House of Cards” – “Chapter 39” (Lisa Bromwell, ACE)
“The Knick” – “Wonderful Surprises” (Mary Ann Bernard)
Best Edited Longform (Miniseries or Motion Picture) for Television
“Bessie” (Brian A. Kates, ACE)
“Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” (Maysie Hoy, ACE)
“Orange is the New Black” – “Trust No Bitch” (90 minute episode) (William Turro)
Best Edited Non-Scripted Series
“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” – “Bay Area” (Hunter Gross, ACE)
“Deadliest Catch” – “Zero Hour” (Josh Earl, ACE & Ben Bulatao)
“Whale Wars” – “The Darkest Hour” (Eric Driscoll, Nik Jamgocyan, Chris Kirkpatrick, David Michael Maurer, ACE, Greg McDonald, Marcus Miller & Alexandria Scott )
Best Edited Documentary – Television
“Keith Richards: Under the Influence” (Joshua L. Pearson
“The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst – Chapter 1” (Richard Hankin, ACE, Zac Stuart-Pontier, Caitlyn Greene, Shelby Siegel)
“The Seventies: The United State vs. Nixon” (Chris A. Peterson, ACE)