The American Cinema Editors (ACE) have announced their nominations celebrating the best in film editing for 2025, referred to as the Eddie Awards. The winners will be announced February 27th, 2026. Here are this year’s nominees…
EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)
F1 – Stephen Mirrione, ACE
Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, ACE; Affonso Gonçalves, ACE
Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners – Michael P. Shawver
Weapons – Joe Murphy
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical)
Bugonia – Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE, BFE
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein; Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Bob Ducsay, ACE
Wicked: For Good – Myron Kerstein, ACE
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Bad Guys 2 – Jesse Averna, ACE
KPop Demon Hunters – Nathan Schauf
Zootopia 2 – Jeremy Milton, ACE
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Becoming Led Zeppelin – Dan Gitlin
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley – Brian Kates, ACE; Stacy Goldate, ACE
John Candy: I Like Me – Shane Reid; Darrin Roberts
Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music – James Lester; Oz Rodríguez
The Perfect Neighbor – Viridiana Lieberman
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
aka Charlie Sheen – Part One – Ed Greene, ACE
Billy Joel: And So It Goes – Episode 1 – Kris Liem; James Pilott; Steven Ross
Mr. Scorsese – All This Filming Isn’t Healthy – David Bartner
Sean Combs: The Reckoning – Official Girl – Evan Wise, ACE; Charles Divak, ACE; Jeremy Siefer; Jack Gravina; Benji Kast, ACE; Adam Goldstein; Jonathan Miller
Pee-wee as Himself – Part One – Damian Rodriguez
BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
Frasier (Murder Most Finch) – Russell Griffin, ACE
Mid-Century Modern (Tee’d Off) – Peter Chakos
The Upshaws (Love Thy Neighbor) – Angel Gamboa Bryant, ACE
BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
The Bear (Bears) – Joanna Naugle, ACE
The Chair Company (Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does) – Stacy Moon
Hacks (I Love LA) – Susan Vaill, ACE
Only Murders in the Building (The House Always…) – Shelly Westerman, ACE
The Studio (The Promotion) – Eric Kissack, ACE
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES
Andor (Who Are You?) – Yan Miles, ACE
The Pitt (6pm) – Mark Strand, ACE
Pluribus (We is Us) – Skip Macdonald, ACE
Severance (Chikhai Bardo) – Keith Fraase, ACE
Severance (Cold Harbor) – Geoffrey Richman, ACE
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Non-Theatrical)
There was a tie in the category, which is why there are four nominees.
The Gorge – Frederic Thoraval, ACE
Mountainhead – Bill Henry, ACE; Mark Davies
The Thursday Murder Club – Dan Zimmerman, ACE
A Winter’s Song – Yvette M. Amirian, ACE
BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES
The Beast in Me (The Last Word) – Shelby Siegel, ACE
Black Mirror (USS Callister: Into Infinity) – Tony Kearns
Death by Lightning (The Man from Ohio) – Joseph Krings, ACE; Anna Hauger, ACE; Michael Ruscio, ACE; Joe Leonard, ACE
Dying for Sex (It’s Not That Serious) – Laura Weinberg; Steve Welch, ACE
The Penguin (A Great or Little Thing) – Henk van Eeghen, ACE
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Conan O’Brien Must Go (Austria) – Matthew Shaw; Brad Roelandt
Love on the Spectrum (Episode 7) – Leanne Cole; Gretchen Peterson; John Rosser; Rachel Grierson-Johns
The Traitors (Let Battle Commence) – Patrick Owen; James Seddon-Brown
BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (S24 E3273) – Jason Bielski
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Medicare Advantage) – Anthony Miale, ACE
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special – Paul Del Gesso; Christopher Salerno; Ryan Spears; Sean McIlraith; Ryan McIlraith; Daniel Garcia
BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES
Bob’s Burgers (Grand Pre Pre-Pre-Opening) – Stephanie Earley, ACE; Jeremy Reuben, ACE
Love, Death + Robots (Spider Rose) – Matt Mariska; Valerian Zamel
South Park (Twisted Christian) – David List; Nate Pellettieri
BEST EDITED SHORT
All The Empty Rooms – Erin Casper, ACE; Stephen Maing; Jeremy Medoff
The Final Copy of Ilon Specht – Tim Johnson; Mónica Salazar
Gyopo – Mengyao Mia Zhang
The Second – Tony Zhou
Technicians – Lindsay Armstrong
ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING
Luis Barragan – California State University, Fullerton
Evan Nowack – Chapman University
Keaton Schallhorn – University of Oklahoma
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