‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Wicked’ beat the odds at 2025 ACE Eddie Awards: See the winners list
If you thought the 2025 Oscars season was over, you'd be dead wrong.
Due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the 75th American Cinema Editors gala was delayed from Jan. 18 to March 14, nearly two weeks after the Academy Awards. In the wake of the fires, the reimagined ceremony pivoted from a black-tie, red-carpet event to a "Come as You Are" community-building fundraiser, and a portion of the ticket sales were donated to Southern California relief efforts.
The 2025 ACE Eddie Awards, held Friday at UCLA's Royce Hall, recognized the best in film and television picture editing for the 2024 calendar year, and there were major shockers in several categories. The editors guild also honored filmmakers Jon M. Chu, Maysie Hoy, and Paul Hirsch with special awards.
At the Oscars, Sean Baker won the Best Film Editing prize for Anora, one of his record four trophies of the evening (the others were Best Picture, Best Directing, and Best Original Screenplay). However, he ended up being bested in the ACE's Comedy Film category by Myron Kerstein (Wicked). The other nominees were Marco Costa (Challengers), Robert Nassau (A Real Pain), and Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron (The Substance).
In the ACE's Drama Film race, Juliette Welfling (Emilia Pérez) beat the odds to prevail against category frontrunner Nick Emerson (Conclave), plus fellow nominees Jake Roberts (Civil War), Joe Walker (Dune: Part Two), and Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga).
The other feature film winners were Mary Blee (The Wild Robot) for animated and Monique Zavistovski (Will & Harper) for documentary.
For television, some of the notable champions included Russell Griffin (Frasier) for multi-camera comedy, Liza Cardinale and Dane McMaster (What We Do in the Shadows) for single-camera comedy, Maria Gonzales and Aika Miyake (Shōgun) for drama, and Peter H. Oliver and Benjamin Gerstein (Baby Reindeer) for limited.
Below is the complete winners list for the 2025 ACE Eddie Awards see all the nominations):
BEST EDITED DRAMA FEATURE FILM
Emilia Pérez
Juliette Welfling
BEST EDITED COMEDY FEATURE FILM
Wicked
Myron Kerstein
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Wild Robot
Mary Blee
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Will and Harper
Monique Zavistovski
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Chimp Crazy (102 — "Gone Ape")
Evan Wise
Charles Divak
Adrienne Gits
Doug Abel
BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
Frasier (207 — "My Brilliant Sister")
Russell Griffin
BEST EDITED SINGLE-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
What We Do in the Shadows (603 — "Sleep Hypnosis")
Liza Cardinale
Dane McMaster
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES
Shōgun (110 — "A Dream of A Dream")
Maria Gonzales
Aika Miyake
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL)
Road House
Doc Crotzer
BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES
Baby Reindeer (104 — "Episode 4")
Peter H. Oliver
Benjamin Gerstein
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Welcome to Wrexham (305 — "Temporary")
Tim Wilsbach
Steve Welch
Michael Brown
Michael Oliver
Tim Roche
Matt Wafaie
Jenny Krochmal
BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (1103 - "Boeing")
Anthony Miale
BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES
X-Men '97 (105 — "Remember It")
Michelle McMillan
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