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The American Cinema Editors (ACE) presented its 56th annual Eddie Awards at a gala on Feb. 19 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. ACE president Alan Heim, A.C.E. began the ceremony, relating that production and post technology has experienced rapid change, but concluding, “What we bring to the editing table hasn’t.” He also spoke of ACE’s educational efforts, including the making of a documentary titled The Cutting Edge: The Story of Cinema Editing, which was produced under the auspices of the ACE Educational Center and released on DVD by Warner Home Video. A highlight of the evening was the awarding of the Golden Eddie for filmmaker of the year to director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man). His partner, Brain Grazer, made the presentation, which include a highlight reel of Howard’s films and the trailer to his anticipated upcoming The Da Vinci Code. Ed Abroms, A.C.E.–who received an Oscar nomination for Blue Thunder and whose television work included two Emmys for “Columbo: Death Lends a Hand” and “My Sweet Charlie”–and Terry Rawlings, A.C.E.–whose credits including Blade Runner, Alien and an Oscar nomination for Chariots of Fire–received career achievement awards. ’06 Eddie Award winners included Hughes Winborne for Crash (motion picture, dramatic) and Michael McCusker for Walk the Line (motion picture, comedy or musical)…Senior colorist Simone Grattarola joined London-based Rushes’ expanding telecine department–headed up by director of telecine Adrian Seery–following the recent announcement of a multimillion pound investment in growing Rushes for ’06. Grattarola comes from London’s One Post; both One Post and Rushes are companies under the Ascent Media Creative Services banner…Terence Ziegler has joined New York-based Company X as a staff editor. He previously at New York’s The Well…. Editor Alex Hagon of bicoastal/international Final Cut has relocated from the company’s London office to its New York shop. Recent projects for Hagon, who has been with Final Cut since early ’04, include a 20-minute short film for Nissan, which was directed by Patrick Bergh of bicoastal/international Partizan…Colorist Adolfo Martinelli has joined Oak Park, Mich.-based GTN. He arrives from R!OT in Santa Monica…San Francisco-based Umlaut has added Jennifer Suttlemyre as general manager. Suttlemyre brings 11 years of commercial postproduction experience in both the San Francisco and New York markets. She was freelance post supervisor for TBWAChiatDay San Francisco on the popular Adidas “Carry” spot…Lynn Anderson has joined New York-based edit, design and audio studio Splice Here as its new executive producer. She joins the company after spending 16 years as a freelance producer…Richard Antley has been named VP of Imagica Corp., a Tokyo-headquartered maker of film scanning and recording technology for postproduction. In his new role, Antley will oversee sales, marketing and support for North and South America….Stockholm-headquartered technology developer Digital Vision announced that Chris Steele will join the company as director of product management. Steele will be based in Digital Vision’s U.K. office. He is an alumnus of such companies as Avid Technology and Eastman Kodak….
