American Cinema Editors (ACE) will present veteran editors Janet Ashikaga, ACE and Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE with the organization’s prestigious Career Achievement honors at the 67th Annual ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, January 27, in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Career Achievement Award honors veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding. As previously announced, J.J. Abrams will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award and winners for best editing will be announced in ten categories of film, television and documentaries.
“Janet Ashikaga and Thelma Schoonmaker have helped create some of the most iconic films and television programs in entertainment,” stated the ACE Board of Directors. “And while their resumes alone are deserving of recognition and celebration, their commitment to the film editing community and shining a light on the craft of film editing is also noteworthy. For these reasons and more, we are thrilled to honor them with Career Achievement awards for their indelible contributions to the craft and community of film editing.”
Ten-time Emmy® Award nominee and Four-time Emmy® Award winner editor Ashikaga has worked on some of the most renowned TV series in recent memory including Seinfeld, Sports Night, My Name is Earl and The West Wing. She is a seven-time ACE Eddie Award nominee and one of the most respected editors working today, not only because of her prolific achievements in film editing but because of her dedication to mentorship and education on behalf of the editing community and American Cinema Editors.
Schoonmaker is a seven-time Academy Award® nominee and a three-time Academy Award® winner for Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed. She has been nominated for the ACE Eddie Award eight times and has won four times. For almost five decades she has been working with Martin Scorsese, marking one of the most significant editor/director partnerships in cinema’s history. She first worked with him in 1967 editing Who’s That Knocking on My Door and went on to edit Street Scenes in 1970 and The Last Waltz in 1978. It was in 1980 when her work on Scorsese’s Raging Bull earned this prolific editor her first Oscar®. Most recently she edited Scorsese’s 28 years-in-the-making passion project Silence. In between, her tremendous filmography boasts titles like The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street, to name but a few. She was recently honored by the New York Film Critics Circle for her distinguished career in film editing.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More