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    Date. Eligibility Requirements Set For 70th ACE Eddie Awards

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    American Cinema Editors (ACE) has announced that the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in film and television, will be held Friday, January 17, 2020 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.  The date reflects a shift in timing to almost three weeks earlier than usual as the truncated awards season landscape (ignited by the Oscars® moving up to Feb. 9, 2020) begins to take shape.  The television categories eligibility dates have also changed–TV contenders must have aired between Jan. 1, 2019 and Nov. 1, 2019. Feature film eligibility remains the same with contenders having to be released between Jan. 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2019.

    The black-tie awards ceremony will unveil winners for outstanding editing in 11 categories of film and television including:

    • Best Edited Feature Film (Drama)
    • Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
    • Best Edited Animated Film
    • Best Edited Documentary (Feature)
    • Best Edited Documentary (Non-Theatrical)
    • Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television
    • Best Edited Drama Series for Commercial Television
    • Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television
    • Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television
    • Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television
    • Best Edited Non-Scripted Series

    Three special honors will be handed out that evening including two Career Achievement recipients presented to film editors of outstanding merit and the Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor presented to a filmmaker who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film.  Honorary award recipients will be announced later this year.

    Submissions for the ACE Eddie Awards open Sept. 13 and close on Nov. 1.  For more information or to submit for awards consideration beginning Sept. 13, click here. 

    Key dates for the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards

    • September 13, 2019          Submissions for Nominations Begin
    • November 1, 2019             Submissions for Nominations End
    • November 18, 2019           Nomination Ballots Sent
    • December 9, 2019             Nomination Ballots Due
    • December 11, 2019           Nominations Announced
    • December 16, 2019           Final Ballots Sent
    • December 20, 2019           Deadline for Advertising
    • January 5, 2020                  Blue Ribbon Screenings (Television categories)
    • January 6, 2020                  Final Ballots Due
    • January 15, 2020                Nominee Cocktail Party
    • January 17, 2020                70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards
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    Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies at 73

    Friday, December 12, 2025
    In this photo provided by Film at Lincoln Center, filmmaker Christine Choy attends a screening of her film, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" at the 59th New York Film Festival in 2021. (Dan Rodriguez/Film at Lincoln Center via AP)

    Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73.

    Choy died Sunday, according to a statement from JT Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, a filmmaking collective Choy helped establish in the 1970s. No cause of death was given.

    "She was a prolific filmmaker who made significant films that helped form our Asian American and American film history," Takagi said on the organization's website.

    Chin, a Chinese American who grew up in Detroit, was celebrating his bachelor party in 1982 when two white auto workers attacked him. At that time, Japanese auto companies were being blamed for job losses in the U.S. auto manufacturing industry. The attackers were motivated by their assumption Chin was Japanese. His death and the lack of prison time for the two assailants is considered a galvanizing moment for Asian Americans fighting anti-Asian hate.

    Renee Tajima-Peña, co-director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," met Choy around 1980 through Third World Newsreel. They decided to collaborate on a documentary a year after Chin's death after seeing how little coverage it received.

    Tajima-Peña recalls bonding with Choy and other crew during freezing Detroit winter nights while waiting for witnesses in Chin's death and evenings spent with Chin's mother's over home-cooked meals.

    "We were in constant motion during the production with Chris always the picture of cool — sunglasses, stylishly slim, cigarette in hand. And yes she was brash and outspoken — her cigarettes may have had filters but her language didn't," Tajima-Peña said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday. "But, her... Read More

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