LOS ANGELES - American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee with its ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year award at the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The event will take place on Friday, February 27th at UCLA’s Royce Hall, where winners will also be announced in 14 competitive categories, recognizing the best film editing achievements of the year in film and television.
Kim Larson, managing director and head of YouTube’s Creator and Gaming team, will accept YouTube’s previously announced ACE Visionary Award; and Emmy-winning editor/director Arthur Forney, ACE, and Oscar-nominated editor Robert Leighton will receive ACE Career Achievement awards.
Photo L-R: Ang Lee (Credit: Brian Bowen Smith); Kim Larson (Credit: Laurie Bishop); Arthur Forney, ACE (Credit: ACE); Robert Leighton (Credit: Peter Zakhary)
Lee joins a group of past Golden Eddie award recipients that includes Jon M. Chu, John Waters, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Kathleen Kennedy, Christopher Nolan, Lauren Shuler Donner, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg, Vince Gilligan, Alexander Payne, J.J. Abrams, Nancy Meyers, Martin Scorsese, Norman Jewison, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas and the Sundance Institute.
“Ang Lee’s exploration of our most closely held emotions has ignited an international passion for cinema for over 30 years”, says ACE president, Sabrina Plisco, ACE. “The breadth of his filmography is unparalleled, ranging from the intimate and boundary-breaking romance of Brokeback Mountain, to the epic drama of Life of Pi and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to even the pre-MCU Marvel film Hulk.”
This year’s ACE Visionary Award recognizes Larson and YouTube’s profound impact on visual storytelling as a whole, the importance of digital content and spaces in the evolving media landscape, and ACE’s ongoing work to support creatives of all kinds across both traditional and digital spaces. The recognition is given in the spirit of previous honors bestowed upon pioneering companies such as Avid, and celebrates YouTube and Kim’s role in empowering a global generation of visual storytellers.
“This year’s Career Achievement Award honorees are equally exemplary,” Plisco notes. “Arthur Forney, ACE, was the backbone of post production at Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment for more than 30 years, overseeing landmark series including Law & Order. Robert Leighton shepherded the editing room for American icon Rob Reiner across 15 films - including When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, and This is Spinal Tap - shaping some of the most enduring works in modern cinema.”
Nominations for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards will be announced January 27th.