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“The Trial of the Chicago 7” got a big boost in its bid for Best Editing at the Oscars with a win at the Ace Golden Eddie Awards on April 17. It prevailed in the drama race at these awards bestowed by American Cinema Editors over two of its Oscar rivals — “Nomadland” and “Sound of Metal” — as well as “Mank” and “Minari.”

Another of the Oscar nominees, “Promising Young Woman,” lost the comedy/musical category to “Palm Springs.” The other contenders in that race were “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “I Care a Lot” and “On the Rocks.”

Oscar watchers were sure to be watching Saturday’s virtual ceremony. These kudos have previewed of the 18 out of the last 30 Best Picture winners and a whopping 22 of the last 30 Film Editing Oscar champs. Not surprisingly, the Golden Eddies are also prescient when it comes to predicting the five Film Editing Oscar slots. Four of...

Editor Alan Baumgarten’s work on Aaron Sorkin’s drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7″ topped the American Cinema Editors Awards in a virtual ceremony.

Baumgarten beat out competition from “Sound of Metal,” “Mank,” “Minari” and “Nomadland.”

In other categories, Pixar’s “Soul” continued to collect awards, winning best edited animated feature, while “Palm Springs” won best edited feature film comedy. The Oscar-nominated documentary “My Octopus Teacher” won best edited documentary feature.

Director Spike Lee was honored with the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film. Editors and co-stars who had collaborated with Lee over the years including Barry Alexander Brown, Ace; Adam Gough, Ace; Nancy Novak, Ace, Jodie Foster, Riz Ahmed and Sam Pollard all celebrated Lee in a tribute video.

Double Oscar nominee Leslie Odom Jr. shared: “When I was a little boy,...

Updated with full list of winners: Netflix’s Aaron Sorkin drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 won the marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) honor Saturday to cap the American Cinema Editors’ 71st annual Ace Eddie Awards.

Alan Baumgarten, Ace, edited the pic, about the unrest around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. It puts him and the film in frontrunner status in the Best Film Editing Oscar race, where it is competing against fellow Ace nominees Nomadland and Sound of Metal along with Promising Young Woman and The Father.

Baumgarten in his virtual acceptance speech thanked Sorkin for his “enthusiasm for editing — it was a pleasure to collaborate with you.” He also thanks his wife, with a nod to the pandemic: “I think myself, and as everybody understands, I brought the work home literally — thank you for your patience and understanding.”

Chicago 7 is up for six Oscars this year including Best Picture.

“The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Palm Springs” have been named the best-edited films of 2020 by the American Cinema Editors, whose 71st annual Ace Eddie Awards took place in a virtual ceremony on Saturday afternoon.

“Chicago 7,” which is nominated for the film-editing Oscar along with “The Father,” “Nomadland,” “Promising Young Woman” and “Sound of Metal,” won in the Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) category. “Palm Springs” won in the comedy category.

Since 2000, when Ace splits its film award into separate drama and comedy categories, one of its winners has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Film Editing 15 times in 21 years. All but one of those wins have come in the drama category.

“Soul” won the award for animated film, while “My Octopus Teacher” took the prize in the documentary category.

In the television categories, winners included “Schitt’s Creek,” “Ted Lasso,” “Better Call Saul,” “Ozark” and “The Queen’s Gambit.

The American Cinema Editors guild, which hands out its awards on April 17, has a good track record as a preview of the Oscar winner for Best Picture (18 out of the last 30) and a great one for forecasting who will win the Film Editing Oscar (22 of the last 30). Not surprisingly, it is also fairly prescient when it comes to predicting the five Film Editing Oscar slots. Four of this year’s Academy Awards nominees contend for this cutting prize; “The Father” was snubbed by the American Cinema Editors.

The Ace Eddie Awards divide their prizes for editing between dramas and comedies/musicals. Oscar nominees “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” contend here in the drama race, which is rounded out by “Mank” and “Minari.” Facing off on the comedy side against Oscar nominee “Promising Young Woman” are “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “I Care a Lot,” “On the Rocks” and “Palm Springs.

The nominations for the 2021 Ace Eddie Awards announced on Thursday (March 11) include our Oscar frontrunner for Best Film Editing, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” along with three of the other four films we’re predicting to reap bids in that race: “Mank,” “Nomadland” and “Sound of Metal.” While “The Father” was snubbed by the American Cinema Editors we expect it to be the fifth Academy Awards contender.

The Ace Eddie Awards divide their prizes for editing between dramas and comedies/musicals. “Mank,” “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” contend here in the drama race, which is rounded out by “Minari.” Facing off on the comedy side are “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “I Care a Lot,” “On the Rocks,” “Palm Springs” and “Promising Young Woman.”

In 1992, the Eddies went from three to five nominees (matching that of the Oscars) and in 2000 it split the award in two,...

“Mank,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” have been nominated in the dramatic-film category at the American Cinema Editors’ 71st annual Ace Eddie Awards, which honors the best in film and television editing.

In the comedy film category, the nominees are “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “I Care a Lot,” “On the Rocks,” “Palm Springs” and “Promising Young Woman.”

The films that were bypassed in the Ace nominations include “Tenet,” “News of the World,” “The Father,” “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

Over the past decade, 90% of the Oscar nominees for Best Film Editing have first been nominated by the American Cinema Editors. The Oscar nominees are heavily weighted toward the Ace dramatic category, with 34 nominees coming from that category since 2010, as opposed to 11 nominees from the comedy category.

The Ace Eddies’ animated feature nominations went to “The Croods: A New Age,” “Onward,” “Over the Moon,...

This year’s American Cinema Editors (Ace) nominations include “Nomadland,” “Mank,” “Minari,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of Chicago 7.”

The guild, which will hand out its awards in a virtual ceremony on April 17, has a good track record forecasting the Oscar best picture winner — it has predicted 18 out of the last 29 winners. Last year, best edited feature film – dramatic went to “Parasite’s” Yang Jin-mo, and the film went on to win best picture at the Oscars. It also has a good record for predicting who wins the best editing Oscar — 23 out of the last 29 winners.

Nominees in comedy feature include “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “I Care a Lot,” “On The Rocks” “Palm Springs” and “Promising Young Woman.”

As previously announced, Spike Lee will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film. Editors Lynzee Klingman...

Editors on films ranging from Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm to Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 have been nominated for the 71st annual Ace Eddie Awards, presented by the American Cinema Editors to recognize the year’s best in picture editing in 14 film, TV and documentary categories.

Winners will be announced during a virtual awards ceremony April 17, where Spike Lee will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award and Lynzee Klingman and Sidney Wolinsky will receive the group’s Career Achievement Awards.

As for today’s nominees, the marquee film categories are split into Dramatic and Comedy. The former features Chicago 7 along with Netflix’s Mank, A24’s Minari, Searchlight’s Nomadland (edited by writer-director Chloé Zhao) and Amazon’s Sound of Metal. The comedy nominees include Borat, Netflix’s I Care a Lot, Apple’s On the Rocks, Neon/Hulu’s Palm Springs...

Nominees for the 71st annual Ace Eddie Awards include such Best Picture contenders as Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” David Fincher’s monochromatic “Mank,” Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” (as a comedy), and Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal.”

The awards show will be held live on April 17 at 11:00 a.m. Pt.

Overlooked, though, were “News of the World” (edited by “Argo” Oscar-winner William Goldenberg) and “Tenet,” as well as three Black-led dramas, “Da 5 Bloods,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “One Night in Miami.” However, there’s still the possibility of one or two of these making the final Oscar nominations, along with the buzzy “Minari” and “Promising Young Woman.”

In terms of using the Editing win as an Oscar bellwether for predicting Best Picture, the last time the winners coincided was “Argo” in...

With such a wide array of potential awards contenders in film and television, awards groups like the Cinema Eye Honors help to cull the field. This year, HBO Documentary Films leads the broadcast categories with 10 nominations, including three each for Liz Garbus’ serial killer series “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” and David France’s Oscar contender “Welcome to Chechnya.” Cinema Eye also unveiled 10 short documentary semifinalists for the short filmmaking honors.

The Outstanding Broadcast Film nominees also include “Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn,” directed by Ivy Meeropol, 2020 Oscar winner “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl),” directed by Carol Dysinger, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” and “Sea of Shadows,” directed by Richard Ladkani.

Outstanding Series Nominees include “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children,” directed by Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Sam Pollard, “Hillary,...

With such a wide array of potential awards contenders in film and television, awards groups like the Cinema Eye Honors help to cull the field. This year, HBO Documentary Films leads the broadcast categories with 10 nominations, including three each for Liz Garbus’ serial killer series “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” and David France’s Oscar contender “Welcome to Chechnya.” Cinema Eye also unveiled 10 short documentary semifinalists for the short filmmaking honors.

The Outstanding Broadcast Film nominees also include “Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn,” directed by Ivy Meeropol, 2020 Oscar winner “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl),” directed by Carol Dysinger, “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” and “Sea of Shadows,” directed by Richard Ladkani.

Outstanding Series Nominees include “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children,” directed by Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Sam Pollard, “Hillary,...

David France’s “Welcome to Chechnya,” a documentary about LGBTQ activists trying to help during the Chechnya government’s brutal crackdown on gays and lesbians, leads all films in nominations in the Cinema Eye Honors’ broadcast categories, which were announced on Thursday during a virtual edition of its annual fall lunch.

Cinema Eye, a New York-based organization founded in 2007 to recognize all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking, also announced its new Stay Focused initiative. The program spotlights 12 films by up-and-coming filmmakers who lost the chance for theatrical exhibition and film-festival exposure because of the coronavirus pandemic. Cinema Eye has pledged to find “in-person opportunities” for the filmmakers once the pandemic subsides, starting with theatrical screenings at the new Vidiots Theatre in Los Angeles in late 2021.

The 12 films include Cecilia Aldorondo’s “Landfall,” which recently won a jury award at Doc NYC; David Osit’s “Mayor,” about the Christian mayor of a...

Alex Gibney, the Emmy and Oscar winning documentary filmmaker who has previously investigated everything from Scientology to Theranos, will pull back the curtain on Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Dubbed “Agents of Chaos,” the two-part film will debut on HBO on Sept. 23 in advance of the 2020 presidential contest. The second installment will air on Sept. 24. Gibney previously collaborated with HBO on the likes of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” and “The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley.”

“The was a Herculean effort that was reminiscent of the cleaning of the Augean stables in terms of difficulty,” Gibney told Variety. “While a lot has been written about certain aspects of this story, much of it was done in such a superficial way that it was hard for people to penetrate. We felt there was value in presenting this as one all-encompassing narrative.”

The resulting film...

Devin Concannon isn’t a basketball player, but he has likely studied more film of Michael Jordan than any Mj opponent ever did—just about every graceful jumper that “swished” the net and every propulsive drive through the lane. His purpose wasn’t to size up Jordan’s game for a possible contest of 1-on-1, but to capture the quintessence of the man many consider the greatest NBA player of all time for the 10-part documentary series The Last Dance.

Concannon and fellow editors Chad Beck, Abhay Sofsky and Ben Sozanski not only scoured footage of Jordan on court, but key moments off of it to tell the definitive story of his run at a sixth NBA championship with the Chicago Bulls in his final season of 1997-98.

“It was a massive undertaking,” Concannon admits. “I’ve never worked on anything that’s 10 hours long before…The amount of archival...

ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” which reaches its climax May 17, focuses on Michael Jordan and the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls. In one sense, the show couldn’t come at a better time, filling the void caused by canceled live sporting events and delivering the exploits of a legend.

Production house Sim intended to assemble the hundreds of hours of footage of director Jason Hehir’s 10-part documentary series in much the same way as the Bulls fashioned their titles — all together, as a team.

“Many documentaries are edited in homes and apartments, with post facilities coming in at the end. This was not one of those projects,” says David Feldman, Sim’s senior vice president of film and television, East Coast.

When the coronavirus pandemic halted film and TV production, Sim was in the middle of its work. At the time the series premiered on April 19, most of the episodes were yet unfinished.

Everyone in “The Last Dance” has a Michael Story. Maybe it’s one they’ve told enough times at dinner parties or family gatherings that the timing has been workshopped to perfection. In some cases, the story might have drifted so far from the truth that it exists as its own self-perpetuating myth. Over the course of 10 episodes of “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary series examining the singular stardom of Michael Jordan through the lens of the legendary Chicago Bulls 1997-98 title run, the breadth of subjects and timelines almost makes the veracity of those stories irrelevant.

Directed by Jason Hehir, whose previous projects include multiple editions of ESPN’s long-running “30 for 30” series, “The Last Dance” is less an investigation of a sports dynasty’s last flames and more the chronicle of how improbable its survival always was. The goal seems to be to make a definitive...

This morning, the American Cinema Editors announced their nominees for 68th annual Ace Eddie Awards. This is one of the most important guilds to take notice of, due to how Best Film Editing at the Academy Awards can often link up to Best Picture. It’s not a perfect correlation, but when looking for hints as to what voters might do, anything helps. Here, they’ve nominated almost all of the likely Best Picture nominees, so that’s a help. In fact, outside of Baby Driver and Molly’s Game, I’d say the other eight contenders here are among the favorites to make the big lineup. Time will tell, of course, but Ace is working from a list of frontrunners this year, that’s for sure. Below you can see the nominees for the Ace Eddie. Last year, the big winners were Arrival and La La Land, though Hacksaw Ridge...

The American Cinema Editors (Ace) have announced nominations for the 68th Annual Ace Eddie Awards. The ceremony recognizes outstanding editing in 10 film, television, and documentary categories. Nominated for best edited feature film this year are “Dunkirk” and “Blade Runner 2049” in the dramatic category and “Baby Driver” and “Get Out” in the comedy category.

Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Editing

Emmy winners such as “Veep,” “Big Little Lies,” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” will also compete for Ace prizes this year. “Fargo,” “Better Call Saul,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” all have multiple Ace television nominees.

Winners will be revealed on January 26. Check out the full nominations list below.

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)

“Blade Runner 2049,” Joe Walker

“Dunkirk,” Lee Smith

“Molly’s Game,” Alan Baumgarten, Josh Schaeffer & Elliot Graham

“The Post,” Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar

“The Shape of Water.” Sidney Wolinsky

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)

“Baby Driver,” Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss

“Get Out,...

Denis Villeneuve’s time-bending “Arrival,” Damien Chazelle’s musical love letter, “La La Land,” and Disney’s zeitgeist-grabbing “Zootopia” took editing honors in drama, comedy, and animation at the 67th Ace Eddie Awards Friday at the Beverly Hilton.

“O.J.: Made in America” (edited by Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski), meanwhile, won for best documentary. It’s considered the frontrunner for the Documentary Oscar.

TV winners included “Veep: Morning After” (edited by Steven Rasch, Ace) for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television, “This is Us:Pilot” (edited by David L. Bertman, Ace) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial television, “Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards”(edited by Tim Porter, Ace) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television, “All The Way” (edited by Carol Littleton, Ace) for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television, and “Anthony Bourdain – Parts Unknown: Seneghal” (edited by Mustafa Bhagat) for...

Awards season keeps ticking right along, but tonight’s Cinema Eye Honors promised at least a tiny respite from narrative-based filmmaking, as the New York City-set ceremony is all about honoring the best in the year’s documentary filmmaking.

Big winners included Kirsten Johnson’s “Cameraperson,” which picked up Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, along with editing and cinematography wins. Right behind it was Ezra Edelman’s “O.J.: Made in America,” which earned Edelman a directing win, along with a production win for Edelman and Caroline Waterlow. Best TV offering went to “Making a Murderer.”

Nominations were lead by Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” and “O.J.: Made in America,” which each pulled in five nominations apiece, though Johnson’s “Cameraperson” and Gianfranco Rosi’s “Fire at Sea” aren’t far behind, with four nominations each. Both Peck and Rosi’s features ultimately walked away without an award.

The editors of awards season front-runners La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight are among nominees.

La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight are among movies nominated for this year’s Eddie Awards, from the American Cinema Editors (Ace) guild.

In the best edited feature film (dramatic) category, Manchester (pictured) editor Jennifer Lame and Moonlight’s Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon are joined by the editors of Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water.

In the best edited feature film (comedy) category, La La Land’s Tom Cross is nominated alongside the editors of Deadpool, Hail, Caesar!, The Jungle Book andThe Lobster.

Eddie winners will be announced at the 67th Annual Ace Eddie Awardsceremony in Beverly Hills on January 27.

The Eddie feature film nominees in full:

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

Arrival - Joe Walker, Ace

Hacksaw Ridge - John Gilbert, Ace

Hell or High Water - Jake Roberts

Manchester by the Sea - [link...

The editors of awards season front-runners La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight are among the nominees for this year’s Eddie Awards, from the American Cinema Editors (Ace) guild.

In the best edited feature film (dramatic) category, Manchester (pictured) editor Jennifer Lame and Moonlight’s Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon are joined by the editors of Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water.

In the best edited feature film (comedy) category, La La Land’s Tom Cross is nominated alongside the editors of Deadpool, Hail, Caesar!, The Jungle Book andThe Lobster.

Eddie winners will be announced at the 67th Annual Ace Eddie Awardsceremony in Beverly Hills on January 27.

The Eddie feature film nominees in full:

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

Arrival - Joe Walker, Ace

Hacksaw Ridge - John Gilbert, Ace

Hell or High Water - Jake Roberts

Manchester by the Sea - Jennifer Lame

Moonlight - Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon

Best...

The editors of awards season front-runners ‘La La Land,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Moonlight’ are among the nominees for this year’s Eddie Awards, from the American Cinema Editors (Ace) guild.

In the best edited feature film (dramatic) category, Manchester (pictured) editor Jennifer Lame and Moonlight’s Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon are joined by the editors of Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water.

In the best edited feature film (comedy) category, La La Land’s Tom Cross is nominated alongside the editors of Deadpool, Hail, Caesar!, The Jungle Book andThe Lobster.

Eddie winners will be announcedat the 67th Annual Ace Eddie Awardsceremony in Beverly Hills on January 27.

The Eddie feature film nominees in full:

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

Arrival

Joe Walker, Ace

Hacksaw Ridge

John Gilbert, Ace

Hell or High Water

Jake Roberts

Manchester by the Sea

Jennifer Lame

Moonlight

Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):

[link...

The editors of awards season front-runners ‘La La Land,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Moonlight’ are among the nominees for this year’s Eddie Awards, from the American Cinema Editors (Ace) guild.

In the best edited feature film (dramatic) category, Manchester (pictured) editor Jennifer Lame and Moonlight’s Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon are joined by the editors of Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water.

In the best edited feature film (comedy) category, La La Land’s Tom Cross is nominated alongside the editors of Deadpool, Hail, Caesar!, The Jungle Book andThe Lobster.

Eddie winners will be announcedat the 67th Annual Ace Eddie Awardsceremony in Beverly Hills on January 27.

The Eddie feature film nominees in full:

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

Arrival

Joe Walker, Ace

Hacksaw Ridge

John Gilbert, Ace

Hell or High Water

Jake Roberts

Manchester by the Sea

Jennifer Lame

Moonlight

Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy):

[link...

The American Cinema Editors have announced the nominees for the 67th annual Ace Eddie Awards, with “Arrival,” “Moonlight,” “Manchester by the Sea” and “La La Land” among the contenders. On the comedy side, “Deadpool” and “The Lobster” continued their surprise awards-season runs by landing nods, while “Stranger Things” also had a strong showing in the TV category.

Final ballots will be mailed to Ace members on January 6, voting ends on January 17 and the ceremony takes place on January 27. Full list of nominees below.

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Best Edited Feature Film (Drama)

“Arrival” (Joe Walker)

“Hacksaw Ridge” (John Gilbert)

“Hell or High Water” (Jake Roberts)

“Manchester by the Sea” (Jennifer Lame)

“Moonlight” (Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon)

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)

“Deadpool” (Julian Clarke)

“Hail, Caesar!” (Roderick Jaynes)

“The Jungle Book” (Mark Livolsi)

“La La Land” (Tom Cross)

“The Lobster” (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)

Best Edited Animated Feature...

Here's the list of the winners and runners-up of the Los Angeles Film Critics:

New Generation

Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild, Krisha

Best Foreign-Language Film

Winner: The Handmaiden

Runner-Up: Toni Erdmann

Best Picture

Winner: Moonlight

Runner-Up: La La Land

Best Director

Winner: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Runner-Up: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actress

Winner: Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come

Runner-Up: Rebecca Hall, Christine

Best Actor

Winner: Adam Driver, Paterson

Runner-Up: Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea

Best Animated Film

Winner: Your Name

Runner-Up: The Red Turtle

Best Screenplay

Winner: Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster

Runner-Up: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea

The Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Prize

Winner: The Illinois Parables

Documentary/Non-Fiction

Winner: I Am Not Your Negro

Runner-up: Oj: Made In America

Supporting Actress

Winner: Lily Gladstone, Certain Women

Runner-up: Michelle Williams, Manchester By The Sea

Editing

Winner: Bret Granato, Maya Mumma,...

Catching up on precursors, one of the bigger critics groups that chime in each year is the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The Lafca headlined the last couple of announcements, as they piggyback off of the New York Film Critics Circle to put forward some of the higher profile critics group awards out there. Los Angeles’ critics tend to be more eclectic in their selections than Nyfcc, often throwing in an unexpected name or two. That was again the case here, to some degree, so Lafca is nothing if not consistent. They’re nowhere near as influential as a guild, but among the critics groups, they’re definitely one of the ones you want to make note of. Below you’ll see not just the high profile Lafca results, but also ones from a newer group in the Atlanta Film Critics Society (or Afcs), as well as well as the Washington,...

Final, 4:30 Pm If the recent past is any indication, Moonlight‘s Oscar prospects are looking extremely good, as the acclaimed drama absolutely cleaned up at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards this afternoon. The film has been heaped with accolades since its Telluride debut in September and today picked up four Lafca Awards total, the most of any eligible 2016 film. In addition to winning Best Picture, Moonlight garnered Best Director for writer-director Barry Jenkins, Best Supporting Actor for co-star Mahershala Ali, and Best Cinematography for James Laxton’s work behind the camera.

For reference, last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Spotlight, also won the same prize at the 2015 Lafca Award. Likewise, Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor at the 2015 Lacfa Awards before winning Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars three months later.

Based on the drama school project In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney,...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association added their endorsement on Sunday to A24’s critical and awards darling with four prizes as Manchester By The Sea ended the day empty-handed.

The group named Moonlight its best film of the year, as Gothams voters did recently, and selected Barry Jenkins for best director, Mahershala Ali for best supporting actor, and James Laxton for best cinematographer.

Isabelle Huppert is the bicoastal empress as she repeated her recent New York Film Critics Circle win in the best actress category for Elle and Things To Come and is starting to surge towards the top in this category.

Certain Women’s Lily Gladstone won for supporting actress, beating her cast mate Michelle Williams for Manchester By The Sea.

Manchester By The Sea was named best film of the year by the National Board of Review last week but had to settle for two runner-up awards here. Oscar frontrunner...

“Moonlight” was named Best Film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which unveiled its pick for best movies and performances of 2016 on Sunday.

The Barry Jenkins drama was the critics’ big winner, scoring nods in four categories overall, including Best Director (for Jenkins) and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. Best Actor went to Adam Driver for his performance in “Paterson,” while Isabelle Huppert was named Best Actress for her role in “Elle” and “Things to Come.”

Shirley MacLaine was honored with the org’s Career Achievement award this year. The prize will be given at the annual awards dinner to be held Saturday, Jan. 14, at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.

Read More: New York Film Critics Circle Names ‘La La Land’ Best Film Of 2016, ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Manchester By the Sea’ Earn Three Awards

“Moonlight” is one of a handful of features have already received...

The nominees for the 10th annual Cinema Eye Honors have been announced, with “I Am Not Your Negro” and “Oj: Made in America” both receiving five each. They’re followed in short order by “Cameraperson” and “Fire at Sea,” which along with “Weiner” are all in contention for the top prize. A total of 37 features and five shorts will be in contention at the upcoming ceremony, which “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James will host from the Museum of the Moving Image on January 11. Here’s the full list of nominees:

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

“Cameraperson” (Kirsten Johnson)

“Fire at Sea” (Gianfranco Rosi)

“I Am Not Your Negro” (Raoul Peck)

“Oj: Made in America” (Ezra Edelman)

“Weiner” (Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg)

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Kirsten Johnson, “Cameraperson”

Gianfranco Rosi, “Fire at Sea”

Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your Negro”

Robert Greene, “Kate Plays Christine”

Ezra Edelman, “Oj:...