American Cinema Editors To Present Best Editing Awards During Its 50th Annual Ace Eddie Awards
The 50th Annual Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) will present awards for Best 1999 Editing in eight categories of motion pictures, television and documentaries on Sunday evening, February 27, 2000, from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. ACE President Mark Goldblatt will preside. Star presenters include Adam Arkin, Thora Birch, Jon Favreau, Felicity Huffman, Jane Krakowski, Sharon Lawrence, Michael Mann, Bill Paxton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Zane. During the awards ceremony ACE will present Academy AwardÆ-winning filmmaker James Cameron its Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award. Honorary Career Achievement Awards will also go to Dann Cahn, A.C.E., and Marge Fowler, A.C.E. In addition, a new honorary ACE award, The Robert Wise Award for the critic, reviewer or writer who has best illuminated the creative work of film editing, will go to Jack Tucker, editor of The CinemEditor, the official magazine of the American Cinema Editors. Schwarzenegger will make the presentation to Cameron while former film editor and famed director Robert S. Wise presents to Tucker. Director Delbert Mann will present to Fowler while writer/producer Andrew Fenady presents to Cahn. OscarÆ nominee Aimee Mann (Best Original Song ""Save Me"" from ""Magnolia"") will perform live at the awards gala. Nominations For 1999 Eddie Awards BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC) IN 1999: ""American Beauty"" Tariq Anwar; Christopher Greenbury Dreamworks SKG/Jinks Cohen Company ""The Insider"" William Goldenberg, A.C.E.; Paul Rubell, A.C.E.; David Rosenbloom, A.C.E. Forward Pass/Blue Light Productions/Kaitz Productions Mann/Roth Productions Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures ""The Matrix"" Zach Staenberg, A.C.E. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Productions/Groucho II Film Partnership Silver Pictures ""The Sixth Sense"" Andrew Mondshein Spyglass Entertainment/Hollywood Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" Walter Murch, A.C.E. Paramount Pictures/Miramax Films/Timnick Films/Mirage Enterprises BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL) IN 1999: ""Analyze This"" Christopher Tellefsen Warner Bros./Tribeca Productions/Village Roadshow Productions NPV Entertainment/Face Productions/Spring Creek Productions Baltimore Pictures ""Being John Malkovich"" Eric Zumbrunnen Gramercy Pictures/Single Cell Pictures/Propaganda Films/USA Films ""Election"" Kevin Tent Paramount Pictures/Bona Fide Productions/MTV Productions ""Man On The Moon"" Christopher Tellefsen; Lynzee Klingman, A.C.E.; Adam Boome Universal Pictures/Jersey Films/Mutual Film Company/Cinehaus ""Run Lola Run"" Mathilde Bonnefoy Sony Pictures Classics/German Independents BEST EDITED EPISODE FROM A TELEVISION MINI-SERIES IN 1999: ""Cleopatra"" (Part One) Peter Coulson Hallmark Entertainment/American Broadcasting Company ""The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer"" (Part One) Drake Silliman, A.C.E. Dan Wigutow Productions/Regency Television/National Broadcasting Co. ""The 60s"" (Part Two) Robert Frazen NBC Studios/Lynda Obst Productions BEST EDITED MOTION PICTURE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION IN 1999: ""Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"" Alan Heim, A.C.E. Home Box Office (HBO)/Esparza/Katz Productions ""RKO 281"" Alexandra Mackie Home Box Office (HBO)/Scott Free Productions ""Strange Justice"" Stephen Lovejoy, A.C.E. Paramount/Showtime Networks Inc. BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION IN 1999: ""Ally McBeal"": ""The Car Wash"" Philip Neel, A.C.E. 20th Century-Fox/David E. Kelley Productions ""The Sopranos"": ""I Dream of Jeannie Cusamono"" William B. Stich, A.C.E. Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Home Box Office (HBO) ""The West Wing"": ""Pilot"" Christopher Nelson, A.C.E. Warner Bros. Television/John Wells Productions BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION IN 1999: ""Everybody Loves Raymond"": ""Robert's Date"" Pat Barnett Worldwide Pants/Home Box Office (HBO) ""Frasier"": ""Three Valentines"" Ron Volk, A.C.E. Grub Street Productions/Paramount TV/NBC ""Sports Night"": ""Small Town"" Janet Ashikaga, A.C.E. Imagine Television/Touchstone Television BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY IN 1999: ""Buena Vista Social Club"" Brian Johnson; Monica Anderson Artisan Entertainment/Kintop Pictures ""Dial `H' for Hitchcock"" Arnold Glassman Rocket Science Laboratories/Universal TV/Encore Cable Network ""Old Man River"" Allan Holzman, A.C.E. Jerry Fujikawa Productions BEST EDITED MOTION PICTURE FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION IN 1999: ""Behind The Mask"" Charles Bornstein, A.C.E.; Tina Hirsch, A.C.E. CBS/Once Upon a Time Films Ltd./Morrow-Heus Productions ""Pirates of Silicon Valley"" Richard Halsey, A.C.E. St. Nick's Productions/Haft Entertainment/TNT ""A Slight Case of Murder"" Paul Dixon, A.C.E. Turner Network Television/Firebrand Productions