Dune Fear is the mind-killer,” intones Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides in Dune. The hero must use his mind toovercome his fear. It’s a central theme of Frank Herbert’s novel and one that also resonated with Joe Walker, ACE, who is taking on another...
Global Perspectives – International Partnership Program Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, many of us had to move out of our editing rooms. Confined to our homes, we had to start working remotely from our improvised editing rooms in spare...
Featured in Content: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won five Oscars® including Best Picture, both lead male and female actors and director for Miloš Forman. It also delivered an editing nomination to Richard Chew, ACE; Lynzee Klingman, ACE; and Sheldon Kahn, ACE....
In Memoriam – George Ohanian, ACE George Ohanian, ACE, passed away on April 20 in the comfort of his home in Glendale. He was 96. Born and raised in Hartford, Conn., Ohanian was a combat veteran of World War II and fought in the European Theatre and the...
In Memoriam – Jon Gregory, ACE Jon Gregory, ACE, Oscar®-nominated editor of Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, passed away on Sept. 9 following a short illness. He was 77. Gregory worked with director Mike Leigh for over 30 years on films...
In Memoriam – Lewis Erskine, ACE Lewis Erskine, ACE, a native New Yorker who loved music and poetry almost as much as he loved editing, passed away in the early hours of the morning of June 3, 2021, after a long battle with cancer. He was 64. Erskine is...
EditFest Global 2021 American Cinema Editors’ 2021 EditFest Global event (Aug. 28-29) featured three panel discussions, 18 breakout sessions and plenty of networking, as well as an in-depth discussion with Tom Cross, ACE. ACE President Kevin Tent, ACE, kicked off...
Academy Museum Opens Following a week featuring a dedication and several opening events, the anticipated Academy Museum of Motion Pictures – of which American Cinema Editors is a Founding Supporter – opened to the public on Sept. 30 in the Saban Bulding (the old...
Animation Showcase – 4th Qtr, 2021 Catherine Apple, ACE, and Jason Hudak teamed on Pixar’s fish-out-of-water coming-of-age tale about a sea monster who lives on the Italian Riviera, written and directed by Enrico Casarosa. Early versions of the film were...
