Nominations Announced for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards

Here are the nominees for the 76th ACE Eddie Awards, via press release. Take a look:

American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced today the nominations for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, television, documentaries, and for the first time in ACE Eddies history, shorts and digital content. The winners will be announced during the ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, February 27, 2026 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. As previously announced, the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film, will be presented to two-time Oscar® winning filmmaker Ang Lee.  Also previously announced, Kim Larson, Managing Director and Head of YouTube’s Creator and Gaming team, will be accepting YouTube’s ACE Visionary Award, and Emmy winning editor/director Arthur Forney, ACE, and Oscar® nominated editor Robert Leighton will receive ACE Career Achievement awards.

A full list of nominees for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards 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