Angus Wall, ACE, and Kirk Baxter, editors of the David Fincher-directed The Social Network, won the Association of Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award for best edited dramatic feature at the 61st annual ACE Eddie Awards ceremony on Saturday (2/19) at the Beverly Hilton.
Wall and Baxter, who cut commercials and branded content via editorial house Rock Paper Scissors, are also in the running for an editing Oscar on the strength of The Social Network. Winning the ACE honor bodes well for their Academy Award prospects as four out of the last five years the Eddie winner has gone on to earn the Oscar.
Wall and Baxter topped an Eddie field of nominees that also consisted of: Tariq Anwar for The King’s Speech; Pamela Martin for The Fighter; Lee Smith, ACE, for Inception; and Andrew Weisblum, ACE, for Black Swan. All these Eddie nominees–except for Smith–have also been nominated for this year’s editing Oscar. Editor Jon Harris is the other Academy Award nominee for the movie 127 Hours.
Chris Lebenzon, ACE, topped the feature film, comedy or musical category for Alice in Wonderland. Ken Schretzmann and Lee Unkrich, ACE, earned best animated feature film distinction for Toy Story 3.
And best edited documentary honors went to Tom Fulford and Chris King for Exit Through the Gift Shop.
The winning half-hour series for TV was the “Family Portrait” episode of Modern Family, cut by Jonathan Schwartz. The best edited one-hour series for commercial television was The Walking Dead‘s “Days Gone Bye” edited by Hunter Via.
The best edited one-hour series for non-commercial television was the Treme episode “Do You Know What It Means” cut by Kate Sanford, ACE, and Alexander Hall.
Temple Grandin was named best edited miniseries or motion picture for TV, the editor being Leo Trombetta, ACE.
And the best edited reality series was If You Really Knew Me‘s “Colusa High,” cut by Rob Goubeau, Jeremy Gantz, Hilary Scratch, Ken Yankee, Mark S. Andrew, ACE, Heather Miglin, John Skaare and Paul J. Coyne.
The Eddie student competition was topped by Ruben Jacques Sebban of the American Film Institute.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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