American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award
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The American Cinema Editors
(ACE) gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1987; the winners have been:
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors 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 itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...
(ACE) gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1987; the winners have been:
- 2011: Michael KahnMichael Kahn (film editor)Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
and Michael Brown - 2010: Paul LaMastra and Neil TravisNeil TravisNeil Travis is an American film and television editor with about 28 film credits dating from 1970.Travis was born in Los Angeles, California, and received a bachelor's degree in film and theater arts from the University of California, Los Angeles....
- 2009: Sidney Katz and Arthur Schmidt
- 2008: Millie Moore and Bud S. Smith
- 2007: John Soh and Frank J. UriosteFrank J. UriosteFrank Jospeh Urioste is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for RoboCop , Die Hard , and Basic Instinct .In addition to his work as an editor, Urioste served on the Board of...
- 2006: Edward M. Abroms and Terry RawlingsTerry RawlingsTerry Rawlings is a British film editor and sound editor with several BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination...
- 2005: David E. Blewitt and Jim ClarkJim Clark (film editor)Jim Clark is a British film editor and director.Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. Clark moved to London, and in 1951 he began work as an assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios. Subsequently, Clark worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by...
- 2004: Donn CambernDonn CambernDonn Cambern is a film editor. Cambern was born in Los Angeles, California, and obtained a B.A. in music from UCLA. Cambern is presently senior filmmaker-in-residence at the American Film Institute Conservatory....
and John A. Martinelli - 2003: John F. Burnett and Tom Rolf
- 2002: Antony GibbsAntony GibbsAntony Gibbs is a British film and television editor with more than 40 feature film credits.Gibbs' editing career began in the mid 1950s as an assistant to Ralph Kemplen and to Alan Osbiston, and through them he became involved with the brief "New Wave" of British filmmaking at its beginnings...
and George Watters - 2001: Stanley Frazen and Fredric SteinkampFredric SteinkampFredric Steinkamp 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 Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
- 2000: Dann CahnDann CahnDann Cahn is an American film editor who has received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors . Cahn is best known as the head editor of the TV series, I Love Lucy and for his work as the head of post-production of comediene Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Playhouse...
and Marge Fowler - 1999: John BloomJohn Bloom (film editor)John Bloom is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator. He is the brother of actress Claire Bloom....
and Arthur SchneiderArthur SchneiderArthur Schneider is a television pioneer and a four-time Emmy Award winning television editor, with a career spanning from 1951 to 1988.Arthur Schneider grew up in New York, and attended Brighton High School in Brighton, Monroe County, New York and Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri.... - 1998: Gerry HamblingGerry HamblingGerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
and John Woodcock - 1997: Fred W. Berger and Harry Gerstad
- 1996: Desmond Marquette and Aaron Stell
- 1995: David BrethertonDavid BrethertonDavid Bretherton was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996....
and Anne V. CoatesAnne V. CoatesAnne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962... - 1994: Dede AllenDede AllenDorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios, and one of cinema's all-time celebrated 'auteur' film editors....
and Gene Ruggiero - 1993: Rudi FehrRudi FehrRudi Fehr was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor, and worked for more than twenty years as the head of production at the Warner Brothers studio....
and Robert SwinkRobert SwinkRobert Swink was an American film editor who worked on nearly sixty projects during a career that spanned forty-six years.... - 1992: Harold F. KressHarold F. KressHarold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
and Charles Nelson - 1991: William H. ReynoldsWilliam H. ReynoldsWilliam H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
and Ralph E. WintersRalph E. WintersRalph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr... - 1990: Margaret BoothMargaret BoothMargaret Booth was an American film editor.Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Later she worked for Louis B...
and Elmo WilliamsElmo WilliamsElmo Williams is an American film and television editor, director, producer, and executive. His work on the film High Noon received the Academy Award for Film Editing... - 1989: Warren Low and Dorothy SpencerDorothy SpencerDorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...
- 1988: Barbara McLeanBarbara McLeanBarbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
and Gene Milford