The 61st American Cinema Editors

American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors 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 itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

 Eddie Awards, which will be presented on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

Beverly Hilton Hotel

The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards in Beverly Hills, California, USA...

, honored the best editor

Editor

The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

s in film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

s of 2010.

Nominees were announced on January 14, 2011.

Film

Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic:

Angus Wall

Angus Wall

Angus Wall is a film editor and film title designer. His editing, with Kirk Baxter, of the film The Social Network won the Academy Award for Film Editing...

 and Kirk Baxter

Kirk Baxter

Kirk Baxter is an Australian film editor. His editing, with Angus Wall, of the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award.Baxter was raised in Sydney, Australia and...

 - The Social Network

The Social Network

The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits...

• Andrew Weisblum
  Andrew Weisblum
  Andrew Weisblum is a film editor and a visual effects editor. He has collaborated frequently with directors Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson. Weisblum was nominated a American Cinema Editors's Eddie Award for Best Edited Animated Feature Film for his work on Fantastic Mr...
  
   - Black Swan
  Black Swan (film)
  Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. Its plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires a ballerina to...
  
  
• Pamela Martin
  Pamela Martin (film editor)
  Pamela Martin is an American film editor. Martin received a nomination for an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Musical or Comedy for her work on Little Miss Sunshine...
  
   - The Fighter
• Lee Smith
  Lee Smith (editor)
  Lee Smith is an ACE-certified Australian film editor. He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm , The Piano , The Portrait of a Lady and Holy Smoke!...
  
   - Inception
  Inception
  Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...
  
  
• Tariq Anwar - The King's Speech

Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical:

Chris Lebenzon

Chris Lebenzon

Christopher John Lebenzon is an American film editor with more than 36 film credits dating from 1976. Lebenzon has been nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films Top Gun and Crimson Tide . He has become a member of the American Cinema Editors for his work on Sweeney Todd and...

 – Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...

• Susan Littenberg
  Susan Littenberg
  Susan Littenberg is a American film editor. Littenberg graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1985 in before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Delaware in 1990. Littenberg began her career as an assistant editor working with filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch,...
  
   – Easy A
  Easy A
  Easy A is a 2010 teen comedy film written by Bert V. Royal, directed by Will Gluck, and starring Emma Stone. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter. The film was shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California. Screen Gems distributed with a release on...
  
  
• Jeffrey M. Werner
  Jeffrey M. Werner
  Jeffrey M. Werner, A.C.E. is an American film editor. He is best known as the editor of such films as Right at Your Door, 2 Days in Paris, Religulous, and The Kids Are All Right. Werner co-edited the 2010 film Peacock with the late Sally Menke, as well as being an additional editor of Eternal...
  
   – The Kids Are All Right
  The Kids Are All Right (film)
  The Kids Are All Right is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg.One of Sundance 2010's breakout hits, it opened in limited release on July 9, 2010, expanding to more theaters on July 30, 2010. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray...
  
  
• Michael Parker
  Michael Parker
  Michael Parker or Mike Parker may refer to:*Michael Parker , former U.S. congressman from Mississippi*Michael Parker , private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh, 1947–1957...
  
   – Made in Dagenham
  Made in Dagenham
  Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British film directed by Nigel Cole. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and Jaime Winstone. It dramatises the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 that aimed for equal pay for women...
  
  
• Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a 2010 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is about Scott Pilgrim , a young Canadian musician, meeting the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers , an American delivery girl...
  
  

Best Edited Animated Feature Film:

Ken Schretzmann

Ken Schretzmann

Ken Schretzmann is a movie editor of Pixar Animation Studios. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1982. He became HBO's Marketing Manager in 1984, which was his first involvement with the entertainment industry; his managerial position lasted until 1985...

 & Lee Unkrich

Lee Unkrich

Lee Unkrich is an American director and film editor. He is a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of Toy Story 2...

 – Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film, and the third installment in the Toy Story series. It was produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Lee Unkrich. The film was released worldwide from June through October in Disney Digital...

• Gregory Perler & Pam Ziegenhagen - Despicable Me
  Despicable Me
  Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the United States. The film features the voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and...
  
  
• Maryann Brandon
  Maryann Brandon
  Maryann Brandon is an American film editor. She is represented by United Talent Agency.Brandon earned an Emmy Award nomination for her editing work on the popular television series Alias, created by J.J. Abrams. She also co-edited Abrams' film directorial debut, Mission: Impossible III, with Mary...
  
   & Darren T. Holmes
  Darren T. Holmes
  Darren T. Holmes is a film editor whose credits include three animated films The Iron Giant , Lilo & Stitch , and Ratatouille .Holmes has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.-References:...
  
   – How to Train Your Dragon
  How to Train Your Dragon (film)
  How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 3D computer-animated action fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name. The film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher...
  
  

Best Edited Documentary Film:

Tom Fulford & Chris King

Chris King

Christopher Donnell King is a retired American professional basketball player, most notably for the NBA...

 – Exit Through the Gift Shop

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Guetta happily accepts the assignment, adopting the name "Mr. Brainwash", putting up street art in the city and six months later, re-mortgaging his business to afford renting copious equipment and a complete production team to create pieces of art under his supervision...

• Chad Beck
  Chad Beck
  Chad Lee Beck is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. He was born in Jasper, Texas.-Early career:...
  
   & Adam Bolt – Inside Job
  Inside Job (film)
  Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film is described by Ferguson as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption." In five...
  
  
• Jay Cassidy
  Jay Cassidy
  Jay Cassidy is an American film editor with more than 30 credits since 1978. He began his career in the 1970s working on documentaries and political advertising. He has had a notable collaboration with Sean Penn, having edited all of the films directed by Penn...
  
  , Greg Finton & Kim Roberts
  Kim Roberts
  Kim Roberts is an award-winning American poet, author, and editor residing in Washington, D.C..-Life:Roberts was born in Charlotte, North Carolina...
  
   - Waiting for "Superman"

Television

Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television:

Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Schwartz or Jon Schwartz may refer to:* Jonathan I. Schwartz, former President and CEO of Sun Microsystems* Jon Schwartz, founder of Morrison Schwartz, inventors of Kids Programming Language* Jonathan Schwartz , radio disc jockey...

 - Modern Family

Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...

 - "Family Portrait"

• Brian A. Kates - The Big C - "Pilot"
• Anne McCabe - Nurse Jackie
  Nurse Jackie
  Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...
  
   - "Years of Service"

Best Edited One Hour Series for Commercial Television:

Hunter Via

Hunter Via

Hunter M. Via is an American film and television editor. After graduating from Full Sail University with a film degree, Via entered the film industry working as an editor...

 - The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is a monthly black-and-white US comic book series published by Image Comics beginning in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, who was replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward, although Moore continued to do the covers through issue...

 - "Days Gone Bye"

• Kelley Dixon – Breaking Bad
  Breaking Bad
  Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...
  
   - "Sunset"
• Mark Conte – Friday Night Lights
  Friday Night Lights (TV series)
  Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...
  
   - "I Can't"
• Bradley Buecker, Doc Crotzer, Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard
  Joe Leonard , is a retired American motorcycle racer and racecar driver.Leonard won the first A.M.A. Grand National Championship Series in 1954 and won it again in 1956 and 1957. His record totals 27 wins, including the 1957 and 1958 Daytona 200...
  
   & John Roberts
  John Roberts
  John Glover Roberts, Jr. is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist...
  
   – Glee
  Glee (TV series)
  Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
  
   - "Journey"
• Scott Vickrey – The Good Wife - "Running"

Best Edited One Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television:

• Sidney Wolinsky - Boardwalk Empire - "Pilot"
• Louis Cioffi – Dexter
  Dexter (TV series)
  Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
  
   - "Take It"
• Kate Sanford & Alexander Hall
  Alexander Hall
  Alexander Hall was an American theatre actor and film director....
  
   – Treme
  Treme
  Tremé is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Rampart Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south and North Broad Street to the west...
  
   - "Do You Know What it Means"

Best Edited Mini-Series or Motion Picture for Television:

Leo Trombetta – Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior...

• Marta Evry & Alan Cody – The Pacific - "Okinawa"
• Aaron Yanes – You Don’t Know Jack
  You Don't Know Jack (film)
  You Don't Know Jack is a 2010 television film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian, based in part on the book, "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life And The Battle To Legalize Euthanasia"...
  
  

Best Edited Reality Series:

Rob Goubeaux, Mark S. Andrew, Paul Coyne

Paul Coyne

Paul J. Coyne is an American film and television editor and producer.-Early life:Coyne grew up in Milford, Massachusetts, and always thought he would someday become an artist. His earliest memory is of viewing a re-release of Jay North's Zebra in the Kitchen, at the Milford Cinemas...

, Jeremy Gantz, Heather Miglin, Hilary Scratch, John Skaare & Ken Yankee - If You Really Knew Me

If You Really Knew Me

If You Really Knew Me is an American reality television series which airs on MTV that focuses on youth subculture and different cliques in high schools. Students from each clique participate in Challenge Day, which is a program designed to break down stereotypes and unite students in schools. At...

 - "Colusa High"

• Kelly Coskran & Josh Earl – The Deadliest Catch - "Redemption Day"
• Yvette Mangassarian-Amirian, Eric Myerson, Michael Caballero, David Michael Maurer
  David Michael Maurer
  David Michael Maurer is an American Television and Film Editor/Director.His work has been experienced by hundreds of millions of television viewers on such shows as "Whale Wars", "Profiles From The Front Line", "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" , and "The Apprentice". Mr...
  
   & Edward Salier - Whale Wars 3 - "Vendetta"

Student Film Awards

• Andrew Hellesen - Chapman University
  • Adam Blum - Chapman University
  • Michael Hyde - American University

External links

• ACE Official web site "Nominees for 61st Annual ACE Eddie Awards"