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Ariana Grande is Glinda and Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in ‘Wicked’ (Photo © Universal Studios)

Wicked and Emilia Perez were named the best edited feature films of 2024 at the 75th Annual Ace Eddie Awards. Winners were announced on March 14, 2025 during a ceremony that was originally scheduled for January 18th. The devastating Los Angeles wildfires forced the delay, and the American Cinema Editors opted for a less formal ceremony that helped raise money for wildfire relief.

On the television side, awards season favorite Shogun, What We Do in the Shadows, and Frasier took home awards. Both What We Do in the Shadows and Frasier earned Ace Eddie Awards for their final seasons, while Shogun is set to return for a second season.

Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu was recognized with the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award during the ceremony. Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch were honored with the Career...

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. However, he ended up being bested...

The American Cinema Editors (Ace) has announced its winners for the 2025 Ace Eddie Awards, which recognizes “outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, television and documentaries.”

Emilia Pérez and Wicked won in the feature film categories, while The Wild Robot and Will & Harper won best animated feature and documentary feature, respectively. What We Do in the Shadows, Shogun and Baby Reindeer won in the TV categories, among others.

The 75th annual ceremony celebrating the best editing of the year was originally set to take place on Jan. 18 before it was postponed due to the L.A. wildfires.

At the event, Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu received the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award; and film editors Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch received career achievement awards. Conclave, Dune: Part Two and Emilia Pérez were among the drama feature film nominees while Anora, Challengers and The Substance were included in the comedy film nominees.

Campaigning for the Academy is a blood sport. Studios pour millions into screenings, media ads, and exclusive events to court the roughly 10,000 Academy voters. Strategists try their best to shape the narratives around their films. Top Gun: Maverick previously “saved theaters,” and Everything Everywhere All at Once had “broken diversity barriers.” Putting whisper campaigns and resurfaced scandals aside, it is no surprise that Oscar campaigns have never been clean. Money talks, but so does social capital, especially now.

The Academy also thrives on a Cinderella story with a rough edge. A film that refuses to be ignored. This is the kind of Hollywood arc that Anora is going through this time. The latest Sean Baker film has emerged as the frontrunner for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. An underdog story now beating to the drum of an almost inevitable victory march.

A still from Sean Baker’s Anora...

Zoe Saldana praised her fellow nominees as she accepted the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress on Friday (02.07.25).The 46-year-old actress beat off strong competition from Danielle Deadwyler, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ariana Grande, Margaret Qualley and Isabella Rossellini to take home the award for her work in 'Emilia Pérez' at the ceremony at the Barker Hanger in Los Angeles.She said: "To my fellow nominees, the films this year and the work you've all done. It's breathtaking. I will forever be proud to be among you. Thank you to all of you. I can't see you, but you f****** rock."She also shared that she tries not to pay too much attention to movie critics but added "I will listen to you all tonight and I will accept this with pride"."Whenever you receive a negative criticism for a role or a film, everyone says, 'Don't read the reviews.

The Critics Choice Awards are one of the most prestigious and sought-after awards in the film industry. They focus more on ratings and the acclaim that a project has than the world’s few on it, being associated similarly to the Oscars.

Anora won Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards | Credits: Neon

They can also help predict the winners of the Oscars, as often the two have a similar winners’ list. Unfortunately, this year’s winners are proving to act as bad news for Timothée Chalamet and Mikey Madison.

The Critics Choice Awards winners were quite interesting

This year, the Critics Choice Awards had a lot of very difficult decisions to make with its lineup in almost every single category. From The Substance to The Brutalist and even Wicked, audiences saw all kinds of masterpieces this year, and pretty impressive ones managed to snag a nomination.

Demi Moore in The Substance | Credit: Mubi

However,...

Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan in ‘Anora’ (Courtesy of Neon)

Wicked and Conclave went into the 2025 Critics Choice Awards with the most nominations, but voters (myself included) spread the wealth around, showering Wicked, Conclave, The Brutalist, Anora, The Substance (congrats Demi Moore!), and Emilia Perez with film awards. On the TV drama side, Shogun earned Best Drama, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress awards. Hacks cleaned up in the TV comedy categories, scoring Best Comedy, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.

The Critics Choice Awards were held on February 7, 2025 with Chelsea Handler returning as host for the third time. Handler spent time during the opening of her monologue to thank first responders for their incredible work during the Los Angeles wildfires. She also thanked Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni for providing a distraction from waking up every day not knowing what news will disappoint or horrify us.

Critics Choice Awards 2025: Full List Of Winners (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Critics Choice Awards 2025: The award season continues with another much-coveted award night. It is the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards, where both films and television artists are awarded. Shogun has secured quite a few awards, including Best Drama Series. Deadpool & Wolverine and Emilia Perez, too, bagged two top awards at the ceremony. Keep scrolling for the complete winners list.

For the uninitiated, the ceremony was held at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport on February 7. It was live-streamed on E! According to reports, it was supposed to be held on January 12 but was postponed due to the California fires.

American comedian/actress Chelsea Handler hosted the Critics Choice Awards 2025, while many Hollywood actors took the stage to present the trophies. The list includes Aldis Hodge, Allison Tolman, Chase Stokes, Craig Robinson, David Alan Grier, David Harbour,...

After two separate delays due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the 2025 Critics Choice Awards have all finally been handed out. The winners list provides another indicator of the strength of several films leading into the Academy Awards March 2, though TV plays a big role in the Critics Choice Awards as well — even if many of the top contenders on that side of the event, such as “Shogun,” which led the TV awards with four wins, are not eligible for this September’s Emmys having already stormed last year’s Emmys.

“Anora” won Best Picture out of a field of 10 nominees. It was the only Critics Choice Award the Sean Baker film starring Mikey Madison won full stop. The most film wins went to “Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez,” and “The Substance” with three each.

“Wicked” won Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and, in a shock, Best Director for Jon M. Chu,...

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards selected Neon’s Anora as its Best Picture on Friday, boosting the fortunes of Sean Baker’s indie pic that started its journey by winning Cannes’ Palme d’Or last spring.

Anora had come into the night with seven nominations but had come up short until the final category was announced at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Up next this weekend for Anora to keep the momentum going are the DGA Awards and PGA Awards, where it is up for both top prizes Saturday.

The Critics Choice Awards, which were hosted for a third year in a row by Chelsea Handler, has traditionally been a good Oscar bellwether. Last year, eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer scored a leading eight wins here including the marquee Best Picture prize that Anora just snagged.

Wicked, Universal’s blockbuster Broadway musical adaptation that came into tonight...

The best in both movies and television were honored at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards!

So many stars stepped out for the awards show on Friday (February 7) at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif.

Heading into the show, Wicked and Conclave were the most nominated movies of the night with 11 nominations each while Shogun led the TV categories with 6 nominations.

Make sure to check out our Best Dressed list to see all of the best looks from the red carpet.

Head inside to check out the complete winners list for the Critics Choice Awards…

Keep scrolling to see the full winners list from the Critics Choice Awards…

Movie Categories:

Best Picture

A Complete Unknown

Anora – Winner

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

The Substance

Wicked

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist – Winner

Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig – Queer

Colman Domingo – Sing Sing...

“Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez,” and “The Substance” each triumphed with three wins at the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards on Friday night. However, it was “Anora” that claimed the best picture prize at this year’s ceremony.

The Neon release entered the race with seven nominations, including best actress for Mikey Madison and best director and original screenplay for Sean Baker. But ultimately, “Anora” walked away with the coveted best picture award, and nothing more.

Meanwhile, “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu, who wasn’t nominated in the Academy Awards’ best director category, beat out several Oscar nominees to win the best director honor at the Critics Choice Awards. “I’m going to win that Oscar!” Chu said jokingly on stage.

The film-acting categories had less surprises, as the ceremony handed best actress to Demi Moore (“The Substance”), best actor to Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), best supporting actress to Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia...

The 2025 Critics Choice Awards will finally be happening Tonight (February 7) after multiple delays and we have everything you need to know about the show.

The annual awards show, which honors the best in both movies and television, was originally scheduled for January 12, but the show was delayed twice due to the Los Angeles fires.

Chelsea Handler is still hosting the show and it’s still being held at the original location, the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.

Going into the ceremony, Wicked and Conclave are the top 2 nominated films this year, both garnering 11 nominations. FX’s Shogun has the most TV show nominations this year with 6 total.

We have all the details you need to know about the nominees, the presenters, and how to stream the show from home.

Keep reading to find out more…

How To Watch

The show is airing live on E! this year at 7pm Et/Pt.

“Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked” emerged January 23 as the two Oscar craft juggernauts, scoring seven nominations apiece and setting up a battle of the musicals at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2. This matches the seven craft nominations of last year’s eventual Best Picture winner “Oppenheimer.”

Jacques Audiard’s operatic thriller “Emilia Pérez” grabbed cinematography (Paul Guillaume), makeup and hairstyling, editing (Juliette Welfling), score (Clément Ducol and Camille), sound, and two original songs (“El Mal” by Clément Ducol and Camille and Audiard and “Mi Camino” by Camille and Ducol).

Jon M. Chu’s populist blockbuster “Wicked” captured costume design (Paul Tazewell), production design, makeup and hairstyling, editing (Myron Kerstein), sound, score (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz), and VFX.

Sharing four noms were “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “Nosferatu.”

Brady Corbet’s post-Holocaust immigrant drama “The Brutalist” nabbed cinematography (Lol Crawley in retro VistaVision), production design, editing (David Jancso...

The nominees of the 75th annual Ace Eddie Awards: Best Edited Feature Film: Civil War Jake Roberts, Ace Conclave Nick Emerson Dune: Part Two Joe Walker, Ace Emilia Pérez Juliette Welfling Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Eliot Knapman Margaret Sixel, Ace Best Edited Feature Film: Anora Sean Baker Challengers Marco Costa

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The nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards are in, and as always, they have their fair share of snubs and surprises.

At the top of the list of snubs this year are “Wicked,” which missed out on the best film category, and Denzel Washington (“Gladiator II”) who, despite being one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, has still never scored a BAFTA nomination. But there were plenty of welcome surprises too, like Hugh Grant earning a lead actor nod for his creepy turn in “Heretic” and Irish-language music film “Kneecap” receiving a better-than-expected six noms.

Below, we break down the biggest developments from this morning’s announcement.

Snub: “Wicked” misses out on best film

In what is probably the most surprising snub of the day, Jon M. Chu’s musical adaptation failed to earn a nomination for best film. It was likely pushed out by another musical — Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” — which,...

Out of respect for those affected by the L.A. wildfires, the American Cinema Editors have announced that the 2025 Ace Eddie Awards has been postponed. A new date for the 75th annual ceremony will be announced soon.

The reimagined gala, which will still honor Wicked director Jon M. Chu with the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, will “pivot from a black-tie, red carpet event to a ‘Come as You Are’ community-building fundraiser,” the organization announced. In addition, a portion of the ticket sales will be donated to Southern California fire relief. The guild’s private cocktail party celebrating the Ace Eddie Awards nominees is also being moved to a new date. See more event changes in the wake of the wildfires.

The guild’s official statement is: “Due to the ongoing concerns for safety within our L.A. communities, we have made arrangements with UCLA and Royce Hall...

Chicago – The incredible 20th Century journey of a German architect, escaping from the Holocaust and coming to America, was named Best Film for 2024 by the Chicago Film Critics Association at their annual awards banquet on December 11th. “The Brutalist” also was also honored in the Best Actor category, for Adrien Brody. Designations were given in 19 categories.

Other major recipients included Best Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste for “Hard Truths,” Best Supporting Actress Natasha Lyonne for “His Three Daughers,” Best Supporting Actor Kieran Culkin for “A Real Pain” and Best Director for RaMell Ross of “Nickel Boys.” Other awards highlights included “Flow” for Best Animated Feature, “No Other Land” for Best Documentary, “All We Imagine as Light” as Best Foreign Language Film and RaMell Ross as recipient of the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award.

Cfca 2024 Best Picture ‘The Brutalist’

Photo credit: Universal Pictures

The Chicago Film Critics Association (Cfca) is an...

Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s ‘Conclave’ (Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)

Wicked and Conclave lead the list of the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards, earning 11 nominations each, followed by Dune: Part Two and Emilia Pérez with 10. The top four nominated films will go head-to-head in the Best Picture and Best Director categories.

The Brutalist picked up nine nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Adrien Brody), and Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce). Anora and The Substance received seven nominations, with Sing Sing and Nickel Boys scoring five nominations. Nosferatu, Challengers, and Gladiator II earned four nominations, and A Complete Unknown and A Real Pain collected three nominations each.

Winners will be announced during the Critics Choice Awards gala airing live on E! on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 7pm Et/Pt.

Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Wicked’ (Photo by Giles Keyte...

The Critics Choice Association (Cca) has announced the film nominations for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, and the mystery thriller Conclave and the stage musical adaptation Wicked are leading the pack this year, with 11 nominations going to each of them. Dune Part Two and the musical thriller Emilia Pérez follow close behind, with 10 nominations each. The winners will be revealed at the Critics Choice Awards gala hosted by Chelsea Handler, which will be broadcast live on E! on Sunday, January 12th, from 7:00 to 10:00pm Et / Pt. The gala is being held in the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The show will also be available to stream the next day on the Peacock streaming service. And by the way, JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray is one of the critics whose votes are being counted for this event!

Cca CEO Joey Berlin provided the following statement: “This year brought...

The film nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Awards have been unveiled!

The awards show celebrates both TV shows and movies, with the TV nominations having been announced last week. So, we now have the full list of nominees!

Wicked and Conclave are the top 2 nominated films this year, both garnering 11 nominations.

The 2025 Critics Choice Awards will air on January 12, 2025. Chelsea Handler will return as the host.

Keep reading to find out more…

Scroll down to see all the movie nominations this year…

Movie Nominations:

Best Picture

A Complete Unknown

Anora

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

The Substance

Wicked

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig – Queer

Colman Domingo – Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Hugh Grant – Heretic

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo – Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez

Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths

Angelina Jolie – Maria

Mikey Madison – Anora

Demi Moore...

The Critics Choice Association has revealed the film nominees for the 2025 Critics Choice Awards.

Conclave and Wicked lead this year’s nominees with 11 nods each, including for the top prize of best picture.

The Critics Choice Association last week announced nominations in its TV categories, with Shogun scoring a leading six nods.

The winners across film and TV categories will be revealed during the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler, which is set to take place on Jan. 12 at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar and will air live on E! from 7-10 p.m. Et/Pt, with the show moving to the NBCUniversal cable network from its previous home of The CW.

A complete list of this year’s film nominees follows.

Best Picture

A Complete Unknown

Anora

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

The Substance

Wicked

Best Actor

Adrien Brody...

“Conclave” and “Wicked” lead the tally for all movies for this year’s Critics Choice Awards nominations with 11 nods each.

The Cca, celebrating its 30th year, announced three of the top categories live on NBC’s “Today” which included the 10 movies in the running for best picture: “A Complete Unknown,” “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing,” “The Substance” and “Wicked.”

Among Hollywood’s biggest stars recognized for acting are Timothée Chalamet in best actor for his transformational turn as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s biopic “A Complete Unknown” and Mikey Madison’s breakout performance as a stripper who gets mixed with a Russian oligarch’s son in Sean Baker’s poignant dramedy “Anora.” The supporting actor and actress categories include Kieran Culkin from the heartwarming “A Real Pain” and Zoe Saldaña from the Spanish-language musical “Emilia Pérez.”

The Critics Choice Awards are...

The Critics Choice Association (Cca) has announced the first round of nominees for the film categories for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards with “Conclave” and “Wicked” leading the pack with 11 nominations each going into the ceremony happening Sunday, January 12, 2025 at the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles.

The group’s picks for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress were announced by host Carson Daly on “Today” during the NBC morning show’s “Popstart” segment. While love for films like “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez” were expected, with the films respective leads Adrien Brody and Karla Sofía Gascón being nominated as well, there were also some pleasant surprises like “The Substance” earning a Best Picture nod, and a Best Actress nod for Demi Moore. Fellow horror film “Heretic” also earned a Best Actor nomination for star Hugh Grant.

The Critics Choice Association also announced their 2025 TV nominees the previous week,...

A group of insiders politically wheeling and dealing as they decide who amongst their own to nominate as sanctified above all others… the plot of Conclave, or a description of Hollywood's awards season? This year, they're one in the same, as Edward Berger's film about selecting a new pope...

Ariana Granda is Glinda and Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in ‘Wicked’ (Photo © Universal Studios)

The American Cinema Editors (Ace) announced the nominees for the 75th Annual Ace Eddie Awards, representing the best editing in films, television, and documentaries in 2024. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Civil War will be competing alongside awards season favorites Conclave, Dune: Part Two, and Emilia Perez in the best drama film category. Wicked and The Substance compete in the comedy film category, along with Anora, Challengers, and A Real Pain.

Wicked‘s director Jon M. Chu will be recognized with the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, an honorary award given to a filmmaker who “exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film.” Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch will receive Career Achievement Awards during the 2025 Ace Eddie Awards ceremony.

Winners will be announced on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

75th Annual Ace Eddie Awards...

The American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Awards have announced their nominations in 14 categories honoring film, television, and documentaries. The winners will be announced live during the awards ceremony to be held on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

In addition to these competitive awards, “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu is set to receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, recognizing a filmmaker “who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film.” Meanwhile, film editors Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch will receive Career Achievement Awards “for their outstanding contributions to film editing.”

Some noteworthy Oscar contenders who made the cut at these awards include “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Wicked,” and “Emilia Pérez.” But despite having separate categories for dramas and comedies, a few major awards hopefuls were left out. “The Brutalist,” as of this writing Gold Derby’s Oscar frontrunner for Best Film Editing, was snubbed, as were “Sing Sing,...

“Civil War,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez” and “Furiosa” have been nominated for Best Edited Feature Film (Drama) by the American Cinema Editors, which announced the nominees for the 75th annual Ace Eddie Awards on Wednesday.

The contenders for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) are “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Real Pain,” “The Substance” and “Wicked.” Both “Anora” and “The Substance” were edited or co-edited by their directors, Sean Baker and Coralie Fargeat.

In the drama category, the most surprising omission is “The Brutalist,” the epic drama which was passed over in favor of spring and summer action pictures “Civil War” and “Furiosa.” Also missing from the final cut was award hopefuls such as “Gladiator II,” “September 5,” “Nosferatu,” and “Nickel Boys.” Nominated editors Margaret Sixel (“Furiosa”) and Joe Walker (“Dune: Part Two”) both won Oscars for their work in the previous franchise installments (“Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Dune.”)

The Ace...

The American Cinema Editors (Ace) announced its nominees for the 2025 Ace Eddie Awards which recognizes “outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, television and documentaries.”

Conclave, Dune: Part Two and Emilia Perez are among the drama feature film nominees while Anora, Challengers and The Substance were part of the comedy film nominees. In the TV categories, Only Murders in the Building, Fallout, Nobody Wants This and Shogun were nominated, among many others.

In the documentary categories, films Jim Henson Idea Man and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story received nods, while series The Jinx – Part Two and Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV were nominated.

Winners will be announced on Jan. 18, 2025 at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.

It was previously announced that Wicked director Jon M. Chu would receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, while film editors Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch...

The 2025 Ace Eddie Award nominations are here, recognizing outstanding editing in 14 categories across film, TV, and documentaries. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Among the nominees are buzzy titles including “Emilia Pérez,” “Anora,” “Wicked,” and “the Substance,” while TV faves including “Baby Reindeer,” “Nobody Wants This,” and “The Bear” also made the cut.

As previously announced, the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award will go to “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu for distinguished achievement in the art and business of film, while career achievement awards go to film editors Maysie Hoy, Ace, and Paul Hirsch, Ace.

Below is the full list of 2025 Ace Eddie Awards nominees.

Best Edited Feature Film

Civil War

Jake Roberts, Ace

Conclave

Nick Emerson

Dune: Part Two

Joe Walker, Ace

Emilia Pérez

Juliette Welfling

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Eliot Knapman, Margaret Sixel,...

Civil War, The Substance, Flow and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story are among the feature nominees announced by American Cinema Editors (Ace) on Wednesday.

Winners will be announced at the 75th Annual Ace Eddie Awards on January 18 in Los Angeles.

As previously announced, Wicked director Jon M. Chu will receive the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, and Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch will receive career achievement awards.

The full list of feature nominees and select television nominees appears below:

Best Edited Feature Film

Civil War

Jake Roberts, Ace

Conclave

Nick Emerson

Dune: Part Two

Joe Walker,...

Colman Domingo in ‘Sing Sing’ (Photo Credit: A24)

The San Diego Film Critics Society selected Sing Sing as Best Picture of 2024, with the film also receiving Best Actor (Colman Domingo) and Best Adapted Screenplay awards. Wicked tied as the most-awarded film, earning Best Supporting Actress, Best Production Design, and Best Costume awards.

Dune: Part Two led the list of San Diego Film Critics Society nominees with 12 nominations and won two: Best Director and Best Sound Design. Anora and September 5 also took home two awards from the Southern California-based critics.

2024 San Diego Film Critics Winners

Best Picture

Winner – Sing Sing

Runner Up – Anora

Runner Up – Conclave

Best Director

Winner – Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Runner Up – Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing

Best Actor

Winner – Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Runner Up – Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Runner Up – Daniel Craig, Queer

Best Actress

Winner – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Runner Up – Amy Adams,...

TIMOTHÉE Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Zendaya as Chani in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ (Photo by Niko Tavernise)

The San Diego Film Critics Society is known for marching to the beat of its own drum. Last year, the So. California group named Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret the Best Picture of 2024. And this year’s nominees break from other critics groups, with Dune: Part Two leading with 12 nominations. Conclave followed with nine, and Sing Sing and Wicked each earned eight.

Winners will be announced on Monday, December 9, 2024.

2024 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Nominees

Best Picture

Anora

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Sing Sing

Best Director

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Edward Berger, Conclave

Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Daniel Craig, Queer

Ralph Fiennes,...

Music videos, photo series, and LEGOs. Those are just some of the origin stories of our Meet the Experts: Film Editing panelists Peter Schiberras (“Blitz”), Marco Costa (“Challengers”), Juliette Welfling (“Emilia Pérez”), Nicholas Monsour (“Nickel Boys”), and Myron Kerstein (“Wicked”). Watch the full roundtable above. Click each name to watch that person’s individual video interview.

“I think the first thing I ever edited was actually a music video for a housemate,” Sciberras tells Gold Derby. “He was directing a music video. It was pretty lo-fi. It was very low-budget. It was all set in a friend of a friend’s basement. It was really fun. Literally how it all started. I literally looked up the most well-known music video editor in town and started working for free essentially and shadowing him.”

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Similarly, Kerstein’s friends would constantly ask him to cut things — this after...

When Marco Costa joined Luca Guadagnino‘s “Challengers,” the editor was excited because he loves tennis and plays a little himself. “But Luca said to me, ‘My movie is not about tennis. It’s about people,'” Costa tells Gold Derby (watch above). “It was right. This is not a tennis movie. This is not a sport movie, but it’s a movie about people.”

Indeed, tennis merely serves as the court (no pun intended) on which the sexual politics play out. Tashi (Zendaya) is a former prodigy whose career was derailed by a knee injury. She now coaches her husband Art (Mike Faist), a six-time Grand Slam champ who’s been struggling. To get his form back, she enters him in a Challenger, where journeyman player Patrick (Josh O’Connor), his former Bff and and her former boyfriend, looms on the other side of the draw. Their final match serves...

Hot off of last year’s Challengers, Luca Guadagnino returns with a new intimate story with Daniel Craig as he strays from his solitary lifestyle when he suddenly finds someone to connect with. A24 has released the melodic and, at times, surreal trailer of Queer.

The plot of Queer reads: “1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.” That Queer is also based on a William S. Burroughs novel adds a bit more excitement to the Guadagnino project, which has been in development since 2022.

Luca Guadagnino has assembled a strong cast for Queer, too, with Daniel Craig starring as William and Drew Starkey,...

“Queer” is almost here.

Luca Guadgnino’s latest, which stars Daniel Craig and is based on a slender William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, hits theaters on November 27, courtesy of A24. And there’s a brand-new trailer that you can watch, right now, below.

In “Queer” Craig plays William Lee, a Burroughs stand-in, who becomes infatuated with a young man named Allerton (Drew Starkey) while careening through the underground nightlife of Mexico City in the 1940s. (Lee is there to acquire a drug that he thinks will grant him psychic abilities – because of course he is.) Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville and filmmaker David Lowery also star.

Burroughs wrote “Queer” while waiting to be sentences for the murder of his common-law wife Joan Vollmer, who he shot in the head while attempting a “William Tell routine.” (This incident was dramatized in David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch.

When it comes to predicting the Oscar winner for Best Film Editing, you can’t go wrong by looking for the movie with the most cuts. Past winners “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2008), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2016), “Ford v Ferrari” (2020), “Dune” (2022) and 2023’s champ “Everything Everywhere All at Once” included high-octane action sequences with frenetic cutting. A slew of winners — including “Saving Private Ryan” in 1999, “Black Hawk Down” (2002), “The Hurt Locker” (2010), “Hacksaw Ridge” (2017), “Dunkirk” (2018) and, to some extent, “Oppenheimer” (2024) — have been war pictures. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Film Editing.)

Oscar voters also embrace film editors who skillfully juggle multiple storylines, as was the case with “Traffic” (2001) and “Crash” (2006). And they like films that expertly inter-cut music with images, such as “Cabaret” (1973), “Chicago” (2003), “Whiplash” (2015), “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2019) and 2021 winner “Sound of Metal.” Special effects extravaganzas like “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004) and “Gravity...

Mubi has picked up rights to Luca Guadagnino’s Queer in multiple territories.

The deal with Fremantle covers the UK, Ireland, Canada, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey and India and all rights excluding theatrical in Italy. The Veterans brokered the deal with Mubi, the arthouse streamer.

This follows Queer‘s world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and North American premiere in Toronto. In August, we revealed A24 had picked up U.S. rights to Guadagnino’s film, which is an adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel.

No release plans unveiled by Mubi yet, but the film is getting its U.S. premiere in the Spotlight Gala at the New York Film Festival and a UK screening as a special presentation at the BFI London Film Festival.

Set in 1950, Queer follows William Lee (Craig), an American expat in Mexico City, who spends his days almost entirely alone,...

Nobody talks much about the age 19. It doesn’t come with the exciting avalanche of adult rights that come with turning 18, or the milestone symbolism of 21. You’re technically still a teenager but don’t feel like one; nonetheless, the looming onset of your twenties is daunting, as if a chapter of your youth is about to close. It’s a corridor age, in other words, and Leonardo, the oh-so-19-year-old protagonist of Italian writer-director Giovanni Tortorici’s exceptional debut feature “Diciannove,” is feeling its transitional, overlooked, neither-here-nor-there angst.

As Leonardo stumbles through his first year of college, chasing some clear idea of who he’s supposed to be, the secure floor of childhood falls away beneath him, while adulthood hovers tauntingly out of reach. Tortorici evidently remembers that disorienting sense of being released (or perhaps abandoned) into the world before you’ve quite found yourself; if you don’t,...

Daniel Craig cruised to Italy and is now on land at the Venice Film Festival for the Queer world premiere.

Ahead of the Luca Guadagnino film’s festival debut — taking place at Palazzo del Cinema’s Sala Grande in the early evening on Tuesday — Queer was toasted at a pre-premiere celebration courtesy of Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson and W Magazine’s editor-in-chief Sara Moonves. Anderson served as costume designer for the A24 release, marking his second straight collaboration with Guadagnino after Challengers. Also keeping it in the family, Craig stars in Loewe’s new campaign.

Held at Il Porticciolo, the restaurant inside Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice, the intimate affair drew a shortlist of actors from Queer, fashion insiders from Loewe and festival stars. Craig arrived arm-in-arm with actress wife Rachel Weisz, who is here to support her husband as he breaks free of his James Bond persona...

We were just remarking a few weeks ago how it’s the summer of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, with the largest-ever U.S. retrospective of the British masters now underway and the Martin Scorsese-narrated documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger coming in July. Now another filmmaker behind what is sure to be one of the most-discussed fall films is paying tribute to the filmmakers.

“Queer will be my most personal film,” Luca Guadagnino tells Cinecitta when it comes to his forthcoming William S. Burroughs adaptation. “It’s a tribute to Powell and Pressburger. I’ve seen The Red Shoes at least 50 times and I think they would appreciate the sex scenes in Queer, which are numerous and quite scandalous.”

Tipped for a Venice Film Festival premiere, Queer marks a reteam with many Challengers collaborators, including writer Justin Kuritzkes, cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross,...

While some may contest whether his new film – Challengers – is, in fact, director Luca Guadagnino’s best film, it is undeniable that this is, simply put, a great film.

In Challengers stars Zendaya as a former tennis prodigy named Tashi Duncan who, after a brutal injury ends her career, turns to coaching and while serving as such for her husband – Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), himself a tennis champion, though currently besought by a losing streak – orchestrates a final confrontation between Art and his former friend and rival for Tashi’s affections, Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor). As the two old friends face each other in the most important match of their lives, their troubled relationship plays out as flashbacks between sets.

Director Luca Guadagnino – perhaps previously best known Suspiria (2019) and Call Me by Your Name (2017) – proves a formidable directorial force with his command of the material here. There is never a...

Luca Guadagnino couldn’t escape the Armie Hammer question at the Zurich Film Festival, where he was celebrated with the “A Tribute To…” award.

“David Kajganich and Theresa Park, the writer and one of our producers, have been working on ‘Bones and All’ since the book was released. Many years ago, probably around the time when we were shooting ‘Call Me by Your Name’,” he said during his masterclass when asked about the recent “cannibal” scandal.

“It was to be directed by my great colleague Antonio Campos, but he decided not to go for it. That’s when they gave me the script. Any correlation with this kind of innuendo and silliness is preposterous.”

Guadagnino’s Zurich trophy is just the latest in a slew of awards for the helmer, recently feted in Venice and in Göteborg earlier this year.

“After I turned 50, I started to accept honorary awards. They offered me some before,...

Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is continuing his streak of being one of the most masterful storytellers in the game with the heartwrenching coming-of-age horror romance, "Bones and All." The new film reunites Guadagnino with his "Call Me By Your Name" star Timothée Chalamet, who stars alongside Taylor Russell, in this harrowing tale of a pair of star-crossed lovers forced to live on the margins of society due to their shared cannibalistic tendencies. Based on Camille DeAngelis' novel of the same name, this romantic tale is also one of forbidden passion, as the two youngsters feel their uncontrollable desires to devour human flesh most powerfully when around the object of their affection. Not exactly an ideal situation for a budding couple.

Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) are able to find solace in one another over their shared condition, but as they fall deeper and deeper in love, the circumstances become more...

The story of boy-meets-girl is one that has been told in film throughout its lengthy history. Sometimes, these stories end in a happily ever after, while others end in tragedy. However, it's somewhat uncommon in the grand scheme of cinema that a love story can always have a prevailing sense of tragedy, even in the couple's happiest moments.

"Bones & All," the latest film by acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino, is one such love story. Starring "Waves" breakout Taylor Russell and Guadagnino collaborator Timothée Chalamet, this love story is about to have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. However, we won't be waiting too long for it to be released to the public. Here is what you need to know about this buzzy romance with a uniquely tragic twist.

Bones & All Release Date And Where You Can Watch It

Unlike his most recently released project, the 2020 HBO...

Watch “We Are Who We Are” with the volume up.

There are no high speed car chases or swelling orchestras in the new HBO/Sky drama. From co-creator and director Luca Guadagnino, the series centers a wandering pack of teenagers living on an American military base in an otherwise sleepy little Italian town circa 2016. And yet, the intimate filming and layered sound design makes “We Are Who We Are” feel more like an immersive experience than most action movies could dream of. As Guadagnino’s camera quite literally follows its wayward subjects throughout their days, we weave in and out of earshot of overlapping conversations, of characters losing themselves in the music pumping through their tinny headphones, of low voices sneaking through the cricket croaks hanging thick in the humid air. It’s so visceral as to become unsettling — but what else is being a teenager like, if not immersive,...