ACE Eddie Awards

[Mister Tee]

Roma turning up here means its best picture campaign is on track.

First Man showing up here and in art direction, along with last night's win, suggests it might have a decent tech haul. The writers bailing on it probably means directing/writing nods are out of the question (barring an unexpected DGA citation), but it could sneak onto the best picture list a la War Horse with enough tech support.

The best picture win-campaign for Black Panther (which I've never believed in) hits a MAJOR snag. This is a place it should have hit if it was going all the way.

A lot of irony going around the past 24 hours. There's been this huge push to honor popular movies, but, by that, the powers that be meant the popular movies they designate as acceptable -- A Star is Born, Black Panther, maybe A Quiet Place. Instead, Bohemian Rhapsody (its box office marking it clearly popular) is the one bubbling up, and everyone's to the barricades.

Maybe it comes to this: of the popular movies, the Oscar community has had a long history of disdaining comic book movies (Panther), horror genre pieces (Quiet Place), and rom-coms (Crazy RIch Asians), and they're not so crazy about remakes (Star is Born). But biopics are their long-known weakness. So maybe Bohemian's run shouldn't surprise us. (Though the writers' omission suggests there's an upward limit to its potential -- and I can't imagine the DGA biting, either, give the mishegas around the director.)

[mlrg]

Black Panther is the clear omission and Bohemian Rapsody has another strong guild support

[anonymous1980]

The nominees:

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
BlacKkKlansman
Barry Alexander Brown

Bohemian Rhapsody
John Ottman, ACE

First Man
Tom Cross, ACE

Roma
Alfonso Cuarón & Adam Gough

A Star is Born
Jay Cassidy, ACE

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY):
Crazy Rich Asians
Myron Kerstein

Deadpool 2
Craig Alpert, ACE, Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir & Dirk Westervelt

The Favourite
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE

Green Book
Patrick J. Don Vito

Vice
Hank Corwin, ACE

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Incredibles 2
Stephen Schaffer, ACE

Isle of Dogs
Andrew Weisblum, ACE, Ralph Foster & Edward Bursch

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Robert Fisher, Jr.

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):
Free Solo
Bob Eisenhardt, ACE

RBG
Carla Gutierrez

Three Identical Strangers
Michael Harte

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Jeff Malmberg & Aaron Wickenden, ACE