Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” the embattled musical crime thriller about gender affirmation, was the shock Characteristic Dramatic Modifying winner, Friday evening on the seventy fifth annual ACE Eddie Awards (held at UCLA’s Royce Corridor).
Besting such contenders as “Conclave” and “Dune: Half Two,” “Emilia Pérez” editor Juliette Welfling lower in opposition to the beginning and cease rhythms of conventional musicals with sequences that flowed naturally from dialogue to musical moments on this operatic fever dream, starring Finest Supporting Oscar winner Zoe Saldaña and controversial Finest Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón.
As well as, Jon M. Chu’s maximalist “Depraved” musical beat out Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning “Anora” within the comedy class. Editor Myron Kerstein excelled at dealing with the tonal shifts and mixing completely different genres to discover the risky friendship between Elphaba/the Depraved Witch (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda/Glinda the Good Witch (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande).
Initially set for January 18, the ceremony was postponed due to the L.A. wildfires and pivoted from a Black-Tie, pink carpet occasion to a “Come as You Are” community-building fundraiser, with a portion of ticket gross sales being donated to wildfire reduction.
Josh Greenbaum’s “Will & Harper,” the cross-country highway journey about friendship and transition, starring Will Ferrell and author Harper Steele, gained the Eddie for Documentary Characteristic. TV winners included “Shōgun,” “Child Reindeer,” “What We Do within the Shadows,” and “Frasier.”
In the meantime, Chris Sanders’ “The Wild Robotic” beat out Gints Zilbalodis’ Oscar-winning “Circulate” for the animated function Eddie, which went to editor Mary Blee for deftly reducing the sci-fi wilderness journey about Roz (Lupita Nyong’o).
As beforehand introduced, the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the 12 months Award went to “Depraved” director Chu and movie editors Maysie Hoy (“Nashville”) and Paul Hirsch (the Oscar-winning “Star Wars”) earned Profession Achievement Awards.
Beneath is the total checklist of 2025 ACE Eddie Awards winners:
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical):
Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical):
Depraved – Myron Kerstein, ACE
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
The Wild Robotic – Mary Blee
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Will & Harper – Monique Zavistovski, ACE
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Chimp Loopy (102 – Gone Ape)
Evan Clever, ACE
Charles Divak, ACE
Adrienne Gits, ACE
Doug Abel, ACE
BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES:
Frasier (207 – My Good Sister) – Russell Griffin, ACE
BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES:
What We Do within the Shadows (603 – Sleep Hypnosis)
Liza Cardinale, ACE
Dane McMaster, ACE
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES:
Shogun (110 – A Dream of A Dream)
Maria Gonzales, ACE
Aika Miyake
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL):
Street Home
Doc Crotzer, ACE
BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES:
Child Reindeer (104 – Episode 4)
Peter H. Oliver
Benjamin Gerstein
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Welcome to Wrexham (305 – Non permanent)
Tim Wilsbach, ACE
Steve Welch, ACE
Michael Brown
Michael Oliver
Tim Roche
Matt Wafaie
Jenny Krochmal
Mohamed el Manasterly
BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL:
Final Week Tonight with John Oliver (1103 – Boeing)
Anthony Miale, ACE
BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES:
X-Males ’97 (105 – Keep in mind It)
Michelle McMillan