American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal letters "ACE". The organization's "Eddie Awards" are routinely covered in trade magazines such as ''The Hollywood Reporter'' and ''Variety''. The society is not an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E. (specifically the Motion Picture Editors Guild or MPEG), to which an editor might also belong. The current President of ACE is Kevin Tent, who was elected in 2020.

Membership

Eligibility for active membership may be obtained by the following prerequisites:

* Nomination or win of ACE Eddie award and/or
* Desire to be a member
* Sponsorship by at least two active members
* Minimum of 72 months' (6 years) editing experience on Features and/or Television
* Interview by the Membership Committee
* Approval by the Board of Directors
* Acceptance by the general membership

Members use the postnominal "ACE" as part of their signatures, as well as on motion picture credits. Thus the president of the society in October 2012 was Randy Roberts, ACE. Until 2014, the Acronym was separated by dots "A.C.E.", but this was dropped in order to conform with the more modern format used by many other industry organizations, such as ASC. The society publishes its current membership on its website.

Board of Directors

, the Board of Directors consists of:

Officers
* Kevin Tent (President)
* Sabrina Plisco (Vice President)
* Lillian Benson (Secretary)
* Andrew Seklir (Treasurer)

Board of Directors
* Kate Amend
* Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
* Richard Chew
* Dorian Harris
* Maysie Hoy
* Bonnie Koehler
* Michael D. Ornstein
* Tatiana S. Riegel
* Stephen Rivkin
* Terilyn A. Shropshire

Associate Board
* Dana E. Glauberman
* Mark Helfrich
* Nancy Richardson
* John Venzon

Executive Director
* Jenni McCormick

Eddie Awards

Beginning in 1950, the ACE held an annual dinner to honor the film editing Academy Award nominees. When the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) created a film editing category, the ACE invited them to the dinner as well.

In 1962, the ACE began giving its own awards. The awards and nominations are typically covered in entertainment industry newspapers and journals such as ''Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''.

The following awards are either currently given or have been given in the past. The American Cinema Editors does not publish an archive of these awards; it refers readers to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for archival information.

As of 2021, the ACE presents 16 categories for film and television alongside special ones, these have gone through several name changes to make distinctions between genre, running time and commercial/non-commercial television productions depending on the category. The list below shows the categories under their current names respectively.

Film

* Best Edited Animated Feature Film
* Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
* Best Edited Documentary – Feature
* Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

Television

* Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television
* Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television
* Best Edited Drama Series for Commercial Television
* Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television
* Best Edited Documentary – (Non-Theatrical)
* Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television
* Best Edited Non-Scripted Series
* Best Edited Variety Talk/Sketch Show or Special
* Best Edited Animation (Non-Theatrical)

Special Awards

* The ACE Student Editing Competition winner
* Career Achievement Awards
* The ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award

Magazine

Since 1951, the ACE has published the quarterly magazine '' CinemaEditor''. It began as an in-house publication, but grew to 5,000 subscribers in 1963. In the early 1990s the magazine collapsed into a four-page newsletter. In 1994, Jack Tucker was appointed as editor and transformed the publication into today's magazine. Walter Fernandez Jr. leads the magazine's team, with publications committee chair Edgar Burcksen.

ACE Student Editing Competition

The American Cinema Editors also holds an annual student competition, awarding one student editor for editing a set of video dailies for a dramatic scene. Three finalists are guests at the annual ACE Eddie Awards in February. Applications are accepted through October and cost US$125. The competition is limited to the first 100 students only.

''Gunsmoke'' editing exercise

The ACE Store is the source of the dailies used at most film schools today, primarily for editing exercises. One scene that many film students must edit is from "Buffalo Man," a 1958 episode of the TV series '' Gunsmoke''. The educational film with this footage is called ''Film Editing: Interpretation and Value'', and is available only to instructors of film editing classes. The film includes three different edits of the ''Gunsmoke'' scene, as well as the scene's original dailies.

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