2014 ACE Eddie Nominees Announced

January 10, 2014

By Brad Brevet

Spike Jonze‘s Her may be competing at the Golden Globes on Sunday as a comedy, but as far as the American Cinema Editors (ACE) are concerned it’s a drama as the org announced the nominees for the 2014 ACE Eddie Awards this morning in three categories. Last year these nominations were announced before the Oscars, giving little reason to look at them and add to the speculation as to which films would eventually be nominated for Best Editing at the Oscars.

Looking over the list, I must say I’m surprised to see Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill’s work on Rush didn’t make the cut, instead replaced by Mark Livolski’s Saving Mr. Banks. I guess editing in all those flashbacks was looked at as impressive.

Otherwise, while I haven’t touched my Best Film Editing predictions since first posting them, four of my top five were nominated by the ACE with the majority of the rest of the nominees serving as runners up, and I think I’m still going to keep Rush in that top five, though it’s always important to remember, films don’t normally go on to win Best Picture if they’re not also nominated for Best Editing.

Winners of the ACE Eddie Awards will be announced on Friday, February 7. The complete list of nominees is below.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):

12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
Captain Phillips – Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity – Alfonso CuarÃ³n & Mark Sanger
Her – Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E. & Jeff Buchanan
Saving Mr. Banks – Mark Livolsi, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):

American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.
August: Osage County – Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E.
Inside Llewyn Davis – Roderick Jaynes
Nebraska – Kevin Tent, A.C.E.
The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: