Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Awards Watch: ACE Editing Nominees

Here is the complete list of nominees for film by the American Cinema Editors (ACE). The awards ceremony will be held on February 18th.

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)

Kevin Tent - The Descendants
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Thelma Schoonmaker - Hugo
Christopher Tellefsen - Moneyball
Michael Kahn - War Horse

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical)

Anne-Sophie Bion and Michael Hazanavicius - The Artist
William Kerr and Michael L. Sale - Bridesmaids
Alisa Lepselter - Midnight in Paris
Adam Recht - My Week With Marilyn
Dana W. Glauberman - Young Adult

Best Edited Animated Feature Film

Michael Kahn - The Adventures of Tintin
Craig Wood - Rango
Eric Dapkewicz - Puss in Boots

Best Edited Documentary

Joe Bini and Maya Hawke - Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Lewis Erskine and Aljernon Tunstil - Freedom Riders
David Tedeschi - George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Who do you expect to win these categories? My picks are The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Artist and Rango.

2 comments:

  1. Correction, it's Kevin Tent, not Kevin Trent. He's the person I would pick though my pick would be the five guys who edited The Tree of Life. You gotta give these guys more love for having to deal with millions of feet of film as well as work for two years sporadically and figure out what to cut and what not to cut.

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  2. Thank you. I make so many errors, ugh.

    Oh, I would pick the team behind THE TREE OF LIFE, but the most impressive of the nominees here were Wall and Baxter for DRAGON TATTOO. I re-watched HUGO today, and though I thought Schoonmaker did a great job, I still think some of the non-linear stories were aided more by fine editing (examples: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, TINKER TAILOR, MMMM). And I really think that SENNA deserves to be here. Actually, that's the best edited film of the year.

    If I were to select the nominees, I would pick SENNA, THE TREE OF LIFE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - but that will never happen, will it?

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