ACE Eddie Awards: ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Among Winners

Universal’s Oppenheimer and Focus Features’ The Holdovers won the top theatrical prizes Sunday at the 74th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, presented by the American Cinema Editors at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

ACE president Kevin Tent, who presided over the event, won best edited feature film, comedy, for The Holdovers, while the drama feature award went to Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame.

Other theatrical winners include animated feature winner Michael Andrews for Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and documentary winner Michael Harte for Apple’s Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. Television winners include The Bear‘s Joanna Naugle, who won for the acclaimed episode “Fishes” that featured a star-studded lineup of guest actors led by Jamie Lee Curtis; The Last of Us‘ Timothy A. Good, for the episode “Long, Long Time;” Beef‘s Harry Yoon and Laura Zempel; and How I Met Your Father‘s Russell Griffen.

The team behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — comprised of Dom Whitworth, Guy Harding, Hamish Lyons, Rupa Rathod, Ben Wainwright-Pearce and Reg Wrench — collected the award for best edited variety talk/sketch show or special.

In addition to the competitive categories, ACE handed out four honorary awards. Director John Waters was presented with the ACE Golden Eddie, which recognizes an artist for their distinguished achievement in film. Additionally, Kate Amend (an ACE Eddie winner for Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport) and Walter Murch (a two-time ACE Eddie winner for The English Patient and Hemingway & Gelhorn, who has also received an Oscar for editing The English Patient and two sound Oscars for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient) both received career achievement awards, and Stephen Lovejoy (an ACE Eddie winner for the Tales From the Crypt and the TV movie Our America) received the ACE Heritage Award.

The full list of winners follows.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)

Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal
Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE
Maestro – Michelle Tesoro, ACE
Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame, ACE (WINNER)
Past Lives – Keith Fraase

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical)

Air – William Goldenberg, ACE
American Fiction – Hilda Rasula, ACE
Barbie – Nick Houy, ACE
The Holdovers – Kevin Tent, ACE (WINNER)
Poor Things – Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Elemental – Stephen Schaffer, ACE
Nimona – Randy Trager, ACE, Erin Crackel
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Michael Andrews, ACE (WINNER)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Eric Osmond
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – Greg Levitan, ACE 

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Theatrical)

20 Days in Mariupol – Michelle Mizner
American Symphony – Sammy Dane, Matthew Heineman, Jim Hession, Fernando Villegas
Joan Baez I Am a Noise – Maeve O’Boyle
Little Richard: I Am Everything – Nyneve Minnear, Jake Hostetter
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – Michael Harte, ACE (WINNER)

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Non-Theatrical)

100 Foot Wave: “Jaws” – Alex Bayer, Alex Keipper, Quin O’Brien
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life – Bob Joyce
Beckham: “The Kick” – Michael Harte, ACE
Being Mary Tyler Moore – Mariah Rehmet
Escaping Twin Flames: “Up in Flames” – Martin Biehn, Kevin Hibbard, Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, Troy Takaki, ACE, Mimi Wilcox (WINNER)

BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

Frasier: “Blind Date” – Joseph Fulton
How I Met Your Father: “Daddy” – Russell Griffin, ACE (WINNER)
The Upshaws: “Off Beat” – Angel Gamboa Bryant 

BEST EDITED SINGLE-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

Barry: “Wow” – Ali Greer, ACE, Franky Guttman, ACE
The Bear: “Fishes” – Joanna Naugle, ACE
The Bear: “Forks” – Adam Epstein, ACE (WINNER)
Only Murders in the Building: “Sitzprobe” – Shelly Westerman, ACE, Payton Koch
Ted Lasso: “So Long, Farewell” – Melissa McCoy, ACE 

BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES

Ahsoka: “Fallen Jedi” – Dana E. Glauberman, ACE
The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time” – Timothy A. Good, ACE (WINNER)
Slow Horses: “Strange Games” – Sam Williams 
Succession: “Conner’s Wedding” – Bill Henry, ACE
Succession: “With Open Eyes” – Ken Eluto, ACE

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL)

Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea -Jon Harris
Flamin’ Hot – Kayla M. Emter, Liza D. Espinas
Reality – Jennifer Vecchiarello, Ron Dulin (WINNER)

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES 

Beef: “The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain” – Harry Yoon, ACE, Laura Zempel, ACE (WINNER)
Beef: “The Great Fabricator” – Nat Fuller
Fargo: “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions” – Christopher Nelson, ACE
Fargo: “The Tragedy of the Commons” – Regis Kimble
Lessons in Chemistry: “Introduction to Chemistry” – Géraud Brisson, ACE, Daniel Martens

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES

Couples Therapy: “Episode 310” – Delaney Lynch, Helen Kearns, ACE, Katrina Taylor (WINNER)
Dancing with the Stars: “S32.E5” – Laurens Van Charante, Ben Bulatao, ACE, Fernanda Cardoso, Jessie Sock, Jon Oliver, Neal Acosta, Raiko Siems, Joe Headrick, Mike Bennaton
Deadliest Catch: “Pain Level Ten” – Rob Butler, ACE, Isaiah Camp, ACE, Alexander Rubinow, ACE, Josh Stockero

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL EVENT

A Black Lady Sketch Show: “My Love Language is Words of Defamation” – Stephanie Filo, ACE, Malinda Zehner Guerra, Taylor Joy Mason, ACE
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: “Dollar Stores” – Anthony Miale, ACE
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – Dom Whitworth, Guy Harding, Hamish Lyons, Rupa Rathod, Ben Wainwright-Pearce, Reg Wrench (WINNER)

BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES

Blue Eye Samurai: “The Tale of the Ronin and The Bride” – Yuka Shirasuna (WINNER)
Bob’s Burgers: “Amelia” – Jeremy Reuben, ACE, Stephanie Earley
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: “Ramona Rents a Video” – Keisuke Yanagi

ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING

Isaiah Clarke – Spanish Springs High School
Jamie Diaz – California State University Los Angeles
Ariel Emma Martin – Chapman University (WINNER)