2026 ACE Eddie Award Nominees Include ‘F1,’ ‘Sinners,’ and ‘Weapons’

The 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. Between the comedy and drama categories for theatrical feature films, all five Oscar nominees are covered, as well as nods honoring the work on “Hamnet,” “Weapons,” “Wake Up Dead Man,” and “Bugonia.”

On the TV side, ACE singled out the editing of many of the shows honored by other guilds for outstanding episodes over the last year — the jawdropping Episode 8 of Season 2 of “Andor,” “Who Are You?” as well as “Black Mirror’s” triumphant(ish) return to “The U.S.S. Callister: Into Infinity,” and “The Pitt’s” tour-de-force mass casuality event in Episode 12, “6 P.M.” Episodes that haven’t gotten as much notice in other awards rounds but with nomination-worthy editing include one of the few for Season 4 of “The Bear” and Season 5 of “Only Murders in the Building,” as well as some early love for the editing of the pilot of “Pluribus.” More joy of the hivemind is likely coming in the future.

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.

The winners will be announced during the ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, February 27, 2026, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Read the full list of nominees below:

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