The

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 ...

(ACE) gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1988. Article indicates that Milford received the ACE Career Achievement Award in 1987; the actual award year appears to be 1988.

List of honorees

2020s

*2020: Alan Heim and

Tina Hirsch Tina Hirsch (born 1943)—also known as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch, and Bettina Kugel—is an American film editor and an adjunct professor of editing at the University of Southern California.

2010s

*2019: Craig McKay and Jerrold L. Ludwig *2018:

Mark Goldblatt Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominated American film editor and film director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors. Brooklyn born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instru ...

and Leon Ortiz-Gil *2017: Janet Ashikaga and

Thelma Schoonmaker Thelma Schoonmaker (; born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, known for her over five decades of work with frequent director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film '' Who's That Knocking at My Doo ...

*2016: Carol Littleton and Ted Rich *2015: Diane Adler and Gerald B. Greenberg *2014:

Richard Halsey Richard Halsey (born 1940) is an American film editor with more than 60 credits from 1970 onwards. An alumnus of Hollywood High School, he won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 49th Academy Awards for editing ''Rocky'' with Scott Con ...

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Robert C. Jones Robert Clifford Jones (March 30, 1936 – February 1, 2021) was an American film editor, screenwriter, and educator. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film '' Coming Home'' (1978). As an editor, Jones had notable collabor ...

*2013: Richard Marks and Lawrence Silk *2012:

Joel Cox Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films. Life and career Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in '' Random Harvest'' (1942). He started i ...

and Doug Ibold *2011: Michael Kahn and Michael Brown *2010: Paul LaMastra and Neil Travis

2000s

*2009: Sidney Katz and Arthur Schmidt *2008: Millie Moore and Bud S. Smith *2007: John Soh and

Frank J. Urioste Frank Joseph Urioste (born April 28, 1938) is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, for '' RoboCop'' (1987), '' Die Hard'' (1988), and ''Basic Instinct'' ( ...

*2006:

Edward M. Abroms Edward M. Abroms (May 6, 1935 – February 13, 2018) was an American film editor and TV director. Abroms was born and raised in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He studied film at the University of Southern California before dropping out to go to work at ...

and Terry Rawlings *2005: David Blewitt and

Jim Clark James Clark Jr. OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. A versatile driver, he competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianap ...

*2004: Donn Cambern and John A. Martinelli *2003: John F. Burnett and Tom Rolf *2002:

Antony Gibbs Antony Gibbs (sometimes credited as Tony Gibbs; 17 October 1925 – 26 February 2016) was an English film and television editor with more than 40 feature film credits. He was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Career Gibbs' editin ...

and George Watters *2001: Stanley Frazen and

Fredric Steinkamp Fredric Steinkamp (August 22, 1928 – February 20, 2002) was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from '' They Sh ...

*2000: Dann Cahn and Marge Fowler

1990s

*1999: John Bloom and Arthur SchneiderSchneider, Arthur
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on 2008-05-28. *1998: Gerry Hambling and John Woodcock *1997: Fred W. Berger and Harry W. Gerstad *1996: Desmond Marquette and

Aaron Stell Aaron Stell (March 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996, in Los Angeles) was an American film editor with one hundred feature film credits and many additional credits for his television work. Stell worked for more than a decade at the start of his career ...

*1995:

David Bretherton David L. Bretherton (February 29, 1924 – May 11, 2000) was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996. Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in ...

and

Anne V. Coates Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film ''Lawrence of Arabia'' in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. ...

*1994: Dede Allen and Gene Ruggiero *1993:

Rudi Fehr Rudolf "Rudi" Fehr, A.C.E. (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor of feature films including ''Key Largo (film), Key Largo'' (1946), ''Dial M ...

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Robert Swink Robert Swink (June 3, 1918 – August 15, 2000) was an American film editor who edited nearly 60 feature films during a career that spanned 46 years. Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, Swink and his family moved to Hollywood in 1927. After graduating ...

*1992: Harold F. Kress and Charles Nelson *1991: William H. Reynolds and Ralph E. Winters *1990:

Margaret Booth Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, she started her Hollywood career as a "patcher", editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Her brother was actor ...

and Elmo Williams

1980s

*1989: Warren Low and

Dorothy Spencer Dorothy Spencer (February 3, 1909 – May 23, 2002), known as Dot Spencer, was an American film editor with 75 feature film credits from a career that spanned more than 50 years. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing on four oc ...

*1988: Barbara McLean and Gene Milford

External links and references

{{ACE Awards Chron American Cinema Editors Awards Awards established in 1988 Lifetime achievement awards