02.18.08
Awards: American Cinema Editors ‘07
The American Cinema Editors handed out their awards earlier on, with no surprises at all…
Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film:
The Bourne Ultimatum
Best Edited Comedy/Musical Feature Film:
Sweeney Todd
Best Edited Documentary Feature Film:
Sicko
To read all the winners, including TV, click here.
So the Guilds are over, leaving only one or two other Awards to be handed out, the Costume Guilds and Motion Picture Sound Editors, and then we are off to the Oscars baby. This is one hell of an intense week for me, catching up with many films of 2007 that are only being released now, for example, tonight I rented “Once”, and this weekend Sweeney Todd and Michael Clayton open.
Cinemaniac James said,
February 18, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hm…maybe that strange hunch I had about TBU winning the Oscar makes sense after all….
Nick Plowman said,
February 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I guess it would make perfect sense. I have never seen any Bourne film, but I have heard the editing cannot be ignored. Can’t say I am ecstatic about it winning, but No Country cannot win them all, right?
Cinemaniac James said,
February 19, 2008 at 7:17 am
Haha, thankfully not (I’m an angry Blood/Atonement supporter, fyi).
What I will say is this…in all objectivity, No Country could still win the Oscar, as could Blood, since both are BP nominated. But Blood doesn’t seem to have momentum here, and No Country…well, the pseudonym thing could work against it–not to mention AMPAS has 3 other places to reward the Coens.
Into the Wild has the least chance of them all.
Bourne has definitely risen to either the #1 or #2 slot…and I’d say #1, simply because the ACE winner has won the Oscar every year since 2001 and from 1996-99 before that. Plus, like you said, the editing is being raved left and right.
But then there’s the wild card…Diving Bell. This could be it’s consolation prize slot. It does have exceptional editing…and it would be a simple way to reward the film. Plus, it bares a strange connection with previous Editing winner Black Hawk Down (both films had the lone director nom, editing, and cinematography; Hawk’s fourth nom was for sound as opposed to screenplay). So, in all likelihood, this is one to look out for as well.
Nick Plowman said,
February 19, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I loved Atonement v. much – we know where I stand on TWBB.
I completely agree about No Country, the Coens have so many noms, and just like at the Eddies, directors do not generally win for editing, especially when they are nominated for directing as well.
I feel sorry for Into The Wild, I really do. I wish it could win in this category, even though it is not the best, it would be consolation for it’s MASSIVE snub, in my opinion.
Bourne will probably win, I am now confident of that, but if Diving Bell could upstage it at the Oscars, I would be pretty glad.
Cinemaniac James said,
February 22, 2008 at 3:44 am
I’d rather see Holbrook be it’s consolation for the massive snub =P. I am not crazy whatsoever about the movie, but I LOVED him more than Wilkinson, who was better than Bardem. Ah, I’m such a bitch.
But yeah, the Coens are simply winning all of those guilds because each guild wants to award NCFOM individually. AMPAS has four places, thus allowing PTA the possibility to upset in screenplay. Mmm…I really hope so.
Ooh, Atonement fan…how unrighteous is Joe Wright’s snub? It’s such bull, it really is. That Dunkirk scene was AMAZING. Oh well…I’m praying for a massive upset there. Not predicting…just hoping =) (Even if out of the nominees, TWBB is my pick).
Btw, do you have MSN by any chance?
Nick Plowman said,
February 22, 2008 at 4:22 am
I agree, I would love to see Holbrook walk away with it, I just don’t think it will happen. What do I know, anything could happen.
If PTA wins Best Adapted Screenplay – good for him, I read TWBB’s screenplay and No Country’s and they are both brilliantly adapted. I have since read Oil! and No Country, the books from which the screenplays were adapted.
I cannot believe the Wright snub, honestly. I love Juno, but Jason Reitman? Sorry but that film belongs to Ellen Page and Diablo Cody. Makes my blood boil, seriously.
No MSN, but I can get it, why?
Cinemaniac James said,
February 22, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Yeah, I agree. I only was happy for Reitman, because I felt he was snubbed for writing Thank You for Smoking (and I’m looking at YOU, Borat!..). But over Wright, who’s been snubbed for Pride & Prejudice as well…that’s just cruel =(.
PTA is a twice-nominated writer, so it makes me think an upset IS humanly possible. If he doesn’t though, it’s bound to happen sooner or later. But, ya know, people compare it to Citizen Kane…and look which award that won!