‘Weapons,’ ‘Wicked: For Good’ Among 2026 ACE Eddie Awards Nominees

The American Cinema Editors (ACE) has revealed its nominees for the 76th annual ACE Eddie Awards, which recognize outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, TV, documentaries, and now, shorts and digital content.

Among the nominees in the best edited feature film drama are F1, Hamnet, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Weapons, while the corresponding comedy category features Bugonia, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Wicked: For Good.

For best animated feature film, the nominees are The Bad Guys 2, Kpop Demon Hunters and Zootopia 2.

The winners will be announced at the ceremony on Feb. 27 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was previously announced that the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award will be presented to filmmaker Ang Lee. It was also previously announced that Kim Larson, managing director and head of YouTube’s Creator and Gaming team, will be accepting YouTube’s ACE Visionary Award, while Emmy-winning editor/director Arthur Forney, ACE, and Oscar-nominated editor Robert Leighton will receive ACE Career Achievement awards.

The full list of nominees follows.

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical)

F1
Stephen Mirrione, ACE

Hamnet
Chloé Zhao, ACE
Affonso Gonçalves, ACE

Sentimental Value
Olivier Bugge Coutté

Sinners
Michael P. Shawver 

Weapons
Joe Murphy

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy, Theatrical)

Bugonia
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE, BFE

Marty Supreme
Ronald Bronstein
Josh Safdie

One Battle After Another
Andy Jurgensen

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Bob Ducsay, ACE

Wicked: For Good
Myron Kerstein, ACE

Best Edited Animated Feature Film

The Bad Guys 2
Jesse Averna, ACE

KPop Demon Hunters
Nathan Schauf

Zootopia 2
Jeremy Milton, ACE

Best Edited Documentary Feature

Becoming Led Zeppelin
Dan Gitlin

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Brian A. Kates, ACE
Stacy Goldate, ACE

John Candy: I Like Me
Shane Reid
Darrin Roberts

Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music 
James Lester
Oz Rodríguez

The Perfect Neighbor 
Viridiana Lieberman 

Best Edited Documentary Series

aka Charlie Sheen – Part One 
Ed Greene, ACE

Billy Joel: And So It Goes – Episode 1
Kris Liem
James Pilott
Steven Ross

Mr. Scorsese – All This Filming Isn’t Healthy
David Bartner

Sean Combs: The Reckoning – “Official Girl
Evan Wise, ACE
Charles Divak, ACE
Jeremy Siefer
Jack Gravina
Benji Kast, ACE
Adam Goldstein
Jonathan Miller

Pee-wee as Himself – Part One
Damian Rodriguez

Best Edited Multi-Camera Comedy Series

Frasier (Murder Most Finch)
Russell Griffin, ACE

Mid-Century Modern (Tee’d Off)
Peter Chakos

The Upshaws (Love Thy Neighbor)
Angel Gamboa Bryant, ACE

Best Edited Single Camera Comedy Series

The Bear (Bears)
Joanna Naugle, ACE

The Chair Company (Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does)
Stacy Moon

Hacks (I Love LA)
Susan Vaill, ACE

Only Murders in the Building (The House Always…)
Shelly Westerman, ACE

The Studio (The Promotion)
Eric Kissack, ACE

Best Edited Drama Series

Andor (Who Are You?)
Yan Miles, ACE

The Pitt (6pm)
Mark Strand, ACE

Pluribus (We is Us)
Skip Macdonald, ACE

Severance (Chikhai Bardo)
Keith Fraase, ACE

Severance (Cold Harbor)
Geoffrey Richman, ACE

Best Edited Feature Film (Non-Theatrical)

*There was a tie in the category, that’s why there are 4 nominees

The Gorge
Frederic Thoraval, ACE

Mountainhead
Bill Henry, ACE
Mark Davies

The Thursday Murder Club
Dan Zimmerman, ACE

A Winter’s Song
Yvette M. Amirian, ACE 

Best Edited Limited Series

The Beast in Me (The Last Word) 
Shelby Siegel, ACE

Black Mirror (USS Callister: Into Infinity) 
Tony Kearns

Death by Lightning (The Man from Ohio)
Joseph Krings, ACE
Anna Hauger, ACE
Michael Ruscio, ACE
Joe Leonard, ACE

Dying for Sex (It’s Not That Serious)
Laura Weinberg
Steve Welch ACE

The Penguin (A Great or Little Thing)
Henk van Eeghen, ACE

Best Edited Non-Scripted Series

Conan O’Brien Must Go (Austria)
Matthew Shaw, ACE
Brad Roelandt

Love on the Spectrum (Episode 7)
Leanne Cole
Gretchen Peterson
John Rosser
Rachel Grierson-Johns

The Traitors (Let Battle Commence)
Patrick Owen
James Seddon-Brown 

Best Edited Variety Talk/Sketch Show or Special

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (S24 E3273)
Jason Bielski

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Medicare Advantage)
Anthony Miale, ACE

Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special
Paul Del Gesso
Christopher Salerno
Ryan Spears
Sean Mcilraith, ACE
Ryan Mcilraith
Daniel Garcia 

Best Edited Animated Series

Bob’s Burgers (Grand Pre-Pre-Pre-Opening)
Stephanie Earley, ACE
Jeremy Reuben, ACE

Love, Death + Robots (Spider Rose)
Matt Mariska
Valerian Zamel

South Park (Twisted Christian)
David List
Nate Pellettieri

Best Edited Short

All The Empty Rooms
Erin Casper, ACE
Stephen Maing
Jeremy Medoff

The Final Copy of Ilon Specht
Tim Johnson
Mónica Salazar

Gyopo
Mengyao Mia Zhang

The Second
Tony Zhou

Technicians 
Lindsay Armstrong

Anne V. Coates Award For Student Editing

Luis Barragan – California State University, Fullerton
Evan Nowack – Chapman University
Keaton Schallhorn – University of Oklahoma

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