The Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) announced the nominations for its 5th annual AICE Awards Show, which is scheduled to take place May 25 at The Henry Ford Theater in Los Angeles.
Editors to watch are Chris Franklin of New York-based Big Sky Editorial, who led the field with five nominations, and bicoastal Lost Planet’s Paul Martinez, who earned four. Both are no strangers to this show, Franklin earned a pair of AICE Awards in ’04 and a second pair in ’05; Martinez won his first AICE Award in ’02 and earned a second in ’05.
In the ’06 competition, there are a total of 56 finalists in 18 categories including, for the first time, eight “best of chapter” categories.
This year Franklin earned a pair of nominations in the new “Best of New York” category for New York Lottery’s “Dollar Store” and “Out The Window.” Additionally he copped a nomination in the dialogue category for “Dollar Store”; a nod in the montage category for MasterCard’s “Home-Broken Window”; and a music/sound category nom for the “Kurt Busch” spot promoting FOX Sports’ Nascar coverage.
“Dollar Store” and “Out The Window” were directed by Jim Jenkins of bicoastal/international Hungry Man for DDB New York. Jenkins also helmed “Home-Broken Window,” which was out of McCann Erickson, New York. And Joseph Kahn of bicoastal HSI directed “Kurt Busch” for Taxi, New York.
Martinez was recognized in the national campaign competition for Altoids’ “People of Pain,” “Mastering The Mother Tongue” and “Fable of the Fruit Bat,” directed by Craig Gillespie of bicoastal/international MJZ for Leo Burnett, Chicago; in the montage category for adidas’ “Night Practice,” helmed by Kinka Usher of House of Usher, Santa Monica, for TBWA/Chiat/Day, San Francisco; and twice for “Best of Los Angeles” for adidas’ “Night Practice” and Altoids’ “People of Pain.”
COMEDY, DIALOGUE In the comedy category, nominees are editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter of Los Angeles-based Rock Paper Scissors for X Box’s “Water Balloons” helmed by Frank Budgen via bicoastal Anonymous Content for McCann Erickson, San Francisco; Eric Zumbrunnen of bicoastal/international Final Cut for Gap’s “Dust” directed by Spike Jonze of MJZ for Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami; and Carlos Arias of Final Cut for Match.com’s “Andrea” helmed by Peter Chelsom of Independent Media, Santa Monica, for Hanft Raboy and Partners, New York.
The dialogue category recognized the aforementioned Franklin; Jennifer Dean of bicoastal Lost Planet Editorial for BET NY’s “Smith Family Robinson,” directed by Paul Hunter of HSI Productions for the client’s in-house BET agency; and Adam Liebowitz of New York-based Go Robot for IBM’s “Catapult,” helmed by Joe Pytka of Venice-based PYTKA for Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
The national campaign competition includes Martinez’s Altoids package; CareerBuilder.com’s “Monkeys,” “Whoopi Cushion” and “Titanic” from editor Jay Herda of Mad River Post’s San Francisco office, and directed by Bryan Buckley of Hungry Man for Cramer Krasselt, Chicago; and Dairy Queen’s “Killer Bee,” “Shock Therapy” and “Hoops” cut by Sherri Margulies, Bill Cramer and Jake Jacobs of New York-based Crew Cuts.
Those in the running in the montage category are editors Mark Morton of Toronto-based School for Lexus “Moments,” helmed by Bruce Dowad via Circle Productions, Toronto, and Dowad Associates, Hollywood; Russell Icke of The Whitehouse (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London) for Sony Bravia’s “Sony Balls” directed by MJZ’s Nicolai Fuglsig for Fallon, London; and the aforementioned Martinez and Franklin.
Cutters in the storytelling category are editors Kim Bica of Lost Planet for American Express’ “Drama” directed by Roger Michell of Saville Productions, Beverly Hills, for Ogilvy & Mather, New York; John Smith of The Whitehouse for Sci Fi Channel’s “Sci Fi Humansuit” directed by Albert Kodagolian via RSA Films, London (he is repped stateside by Believe Media); and Steve Gandolfi of bicoastal/international Cut + Run for Levi’s “Loyal.”
The slate of nominees in the category for visual effects spots are Cut+Run’s Gandolfi for Guinness’ “noitulovE,” helmed by Daniel Kleinman of Kleinman Productions, London, via AMV BBDO, London; Hal Honigsberg of Santa Monica-based Chrome for Hewlett Packard’s “Road Trip,” directed by Francois Vogel via bicoastal Tool of North America for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco; and Leo King of Cut +Run for Vodafone’s “Newsflash.”
Striking the right notes in the music and sound category are editors Graham Chisholm of Toronto-based Relish for Suzuki’s “Quiet Please” via Diesel Marketing, Toronto; Vito DeSario of Version 2 Editing for Top Flight’s “Infinity” directed by Jason Harrington of bicoastal Believe Media for McCarthy Mambro Bertino, Boston; Chan Hatcher of Cosmo Street for Burger King’s “Fantasy Ranch,” helmed by David La Chapelle of HSI for Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami; and the aforementioned Franklin.
Three are recognized for editing PSAs. They are Sarah Iben of Final Cut for ONDCP’s
“Transformation” out of FCB, New York; Glenn Conte of Red Car’s New York office for Ed Bosques’ anorexia spot “Reality” via Dieste Harmel & Partners, Dallas, ; and Geoff Hounsell of Lost Planet for Montana Meth’s “Laundromat” via Venables, Bell & Partners, San Francisco.
The local spot competition produced nominations for editor Bob Mori of Santa Monica-based Cake for Nike’s “Music of Baseball”; Katz of bicoastal Cosmo Street Editorial for CBS’ “CSI Take Your Work Home”; and Matthew Kett of Toronto-based Panic & Bob Editing for Rogers’ “Tired Ball.” “Music of Baseball” was directed by Warren Kushner of Reactor Films, Santa Monica, for Cole & Weber, Seattle; “CSI” was helmed by MJZ’s Rocky Morton for The Martin Agency, Richmond; and “Tired Ball” was directed by Michael Davidson of Directors, Toronto, for MHZ Designs, Toronto.
A spec spot category includes editors Olivier Wicki of New York-based Bluerock for XM Satellite Radio’s “Move Your World”; Steve Prestemon of Cosmo Street for adidas’
“Sleep Runner”; and Stephane Dumonceau of Mad River’s New York office for BCBSMN’s “Marathon.”
Up for the first “Best of Boston” award are Peter Barstis of Boston-based Editbar for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ “Berklee College of Music–Eggie” via Partners + Simons, Boston; Khari Streeter of Editbar for Public Service New Hampshire’s “Osprey” from Boston agency Rumbletree; and Michael Reuter of Boston-based Spot for Massachusetts Lottery’s “Permission” out of Hill Holliday, Boston.
Nominees for “Best of Chicago” are three editors from the Windy City’s Outsider. They are Tom Brassil for Coors’ “Super Train” via FCB, Chicago; Michael Labellarte for L&M’s “Transglobe” via Leo Burnett, Chicago; and Nadav Kurtz for Boeing’s “Great Idea” from FCB, Chicago.
In Texas, the “Best of Dallas” nominees hail from Fast Cuts Edits, Dallas. Editor Gigi Cone Welch has two nominations, for Budweiser’s “Mute/Carlos Vives” and the Adam’s Golf spot “RPM Torque Wrench”; and editor Marc Hoffmeister for Mercedes-Benz’s “Gypsy Soul.”
The “Best of Detroit” category had a pair of nominees from Motor City’s Mad River Post office, editors Richard Smith for Dodge’s “Magic,” and Stewart Shevin for Nissan’s “Icons-City.” And editor Terry King of Griot Editorial (STS Editorial) drove off with the third nomination for Dodge’s “Wishful Thinking.”
Lost Planet collected all three nominations for the debut “Best of Los Angeles” division. They are editor Kim Bica for the aforementioned American Express “Drama” ad; and two of the Martinez-cut Altoid spots.
Franklin took a bite out of the “Best of New York” competition with nominations for New York Lottery’s “Dollar Store” and “Out The Window”; rounding out the category is Akiko Iwakawa of Final Cut for Reebok’s “Far.”
The City by the Bay produced two “Best of San Francisco” nominations for Bob Frisk of Phoenix Edit Effects Design on the strength of PG&E’s “Bad Fridge” and HP’s “Chairs”, as well as a nod for aforementioned Herda of Mad River for CareerBuilder.com’s “Whoopi Cushion.”
The “Best of Toronto” category produced nominations for three members of AICE’s newest chapter. The editors are David Bexter of Panic & Bob for Nike’s “Puck Dodging”; Panic & Bob’s Michell Czukar for Honda’s “Signs”; and Mick Griffin of Toronto-based Flashcut for Pepsi QTG’s “Block by Block.”
