ACE Eddie Awards Winners List – Updating Live

American Cinema Editors is handing out its 76th annual ACE Eddie Awards tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline is posting the winners as they are revealed. See the list below.

The documentary categories were handed out first, with The Perfect Neighbor winning for film and NBC’s Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special taking the TV prize.

Vying for the marquee Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical) prize tonight are the editors for Best Picture Oscar nominees F1, Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Sinners, along with Weapons. 

Up for the Feature Film (Comedy, Theatrical) award are Bugonia, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another — all also in the Best Picture race — along with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Wicked: For Good.

The editors group is presenting a handful of special honors tonight. The ACE Visionary Award went to YouTube and was be accepted by Kim Larson, Managing Director and Head of the Creator and Gaming team. The award was presented by Michele Khare, host of the popular YouTube docuseries Challenge Accepted.

Two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, Emmy-winning editor-director Arthur Forney and Oscar-nominated editor Robert Leighton are set for ACE Career Achievement awards.

Since the turn of the 21st century, the Eddie winner for theatrical drama has gone on to score the Academy Award for Best Editing 14 of 26 times — but only once in the past five years, for Oppenheimer. Wicked and Emilia Pérez took the top film honors at the 2025 Eddies, with Anora‘s Sean Baker going on the win the Oscar for Best Film Editing.

RELATED: ACE Eddie Awards Adds New Category For Edited Shorts; YouTube Set For Visionary Award

Here are the 2026 ACE Eddie Awards winners announced so far, followed by the remaining nominees:

Winners

BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES
South Park (Twisted Christian)
David List, Nate Pellettieri

BEST EDITED SHORT
All the Empty Rooms
Erin Casper, Stephen Maing, Jeremy Medoff

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Conan O’Brien Must Go (Austria)
Matthew Shaw, Brad Roelandt

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL
Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special
Paul Del Gesso, Christopher Salerno, Ryan Spears, Sean Mcilraith, Ryan Mcilraith, Daniel Garcia

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Perfect Neighbor
Viridiana Lieberman

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Pee-wee as Himself – Part One
Damian Rodriguez

ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING
Luis Barragan – California State University, Fullerton

Nominees

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)
F1
Stephen Mirrione

Hamnet
Chloé Zhao
Affonso Gonçalves

Sentimental Value
Olivier Bugge Coutté

Sinners
Michael P. Shawver

Weapons
Joe Murphy

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical)

Bugonia
Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Marty Supreme
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie

One Battle After Another
Andy Jurgensen

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Bob Ducsay

Wicked: For Good
Myron Kerstein

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Bad Guys 2
Jesse Averna

KPop Demon Hunters
Nathan Schauf

Zootopia 2
Jeremy Milton

BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

Frasier (Murder Most Finch)
Russell Griffin

Mid-Century Modern (Tee’d Off)
Peter Chakos

The Upshaws (Love Thy Neighbor)
Angel Gamboa Bryant

BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES

The Bear (Bears)
Joanna Naugle

The Chair Company (Life Goes By Too F**king Fast, It Really Does)
Stacy Moon

Hacks (I Love LA)
Susan Vaill

Only Murders in the Building (The House Always…)
Shelly Westerman

The Studio (The Promotion)
Eric Kissack

BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES

Andor (Who Are You?)
Yan Miles

The Pitt (6pm)
Mark Strand

Pluribus (We is Us)
Skip Macdonald

Severance (Chikhai Bardo)
Keith Fraase

Severance (Cold Harbor)
Geoffrey Richman

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL) – Tie

The Gorge
Frederic Thoraval

Mountainhead
Bill Henry, Mark Davies

The Thursday Murder Club
Dan Zimmerman

A Winter’s Song
Yvette M. Amirian

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES

The Beast in Me (The Last Word)
Shelby Siegel

Black Mirror (USS Callister: Into Infinity)
Tony Kearns

Death by Lightning (The Man from Ohio)
Joseph Krings, Anna Hauger, Michael Ruscio, Joe Leonard

Dying for Sex (It’s Not That Serious)
Laura Weinberg, Steve Welch

The Penguin (A Great or Little Thing)
Henk van Eeghen