American Cinema Editors Awards 2015 Explained

The 65th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards was presented on January 30, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honoring the best editors in films and television.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic:

Sandra Adair – Boyhood

• Joel Cox and Gary Roach – American Sniper
• Kirk Baxter – Gone Girl
• William Goldenberg – The Imitation Game
• John Gilroy – Nightcrawler
• Tom Cross – Whiplash

Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical:

Barney Pilling – The Grand Budapest Hotel

• Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione – Birdman
• Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne and Craig Wood – Guardians of the Galaxy
• Wyatt Smith – Into the Woods
• Leslie Jones – Inherent Vice

Best Edited Animated Feature Film:

David Burrows and Chris McKay – The Lego Movie

• Tim Mertens – Big Hero 6
• Edie Bleiman – The Boxtrolls

Best Edited Documentary Feature:

Mathilde Bonnefoy – Citizenfour

• Aaron Wickenden – Finding Vivian Maier
• Elisa Bonora –

Television

Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television:

Anthony Boys – Veep: "Special Relationship"

• Brian Merken and Tom Roche – Silicon Valley: "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency"
• Catherine Haight – Transparent: "Pilot"

Best Edited One Hour Series for Commercial Television:

Yan Miles – Sherlock: "His Last Vow"

• Scott Powell – : "10:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m."
• Scott Vickrey – The Good Wife: "A Few Words"
• Christopher Gay – Mad Men: "Waterloo"
• Elena Maganini and Michael Ornstein – Madam Secretary: "Pilot"

Best Edited One Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television:

Affonso Goncalves – True Detective: "Who Goes There"

• Byron Smith – House of Cards: "Chapter 14"
• Alex Hall – True Detective: "The Secret Fate of All Life"

Best Edited Mini-Series or Motion Picture for Television:

Adam Penn – The Normal Heart

• Regis Kimble – Fargo: "Buridan's Ass"
• Jeffrey M. Werner – Olive Kitteridge: "A Different Road"

Best Edited Non-Scripted Series

Hunter Gross – : "Iran"

• Josh Earl and Johnny Bishop – Deadliest Catch: "Lost at Sea"
• Joe Langford & Nick Carew – Vice: "Greenland Is Melting & Bonded Labor"

Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award

• Frank Marshall

Career Achievement Award

• Diane Adler
• Gerald B. Greenberg

Notes and References

1. News: Adam Chitwood. NIGHTCRAWLER, GONE GIRL, and BOYHOOD Land ACE Editing Awards Nominations. January 13, 2015. Collider. January 2, 2015.