Warner Bros’ awards-season combatants Sinners and One Battle After One other and Netflix’s toon phenom KPop Demon Hunters took the highest movie prizes at 2026 annual ACE Eddie Awards, which had been handed out Friday evening at UCLA’s Royce Corridor. See the total winners listing under.
Sinners editor Michael P. Shawver took the Eddie Award for Greatest Edited Function Drama, and One Battle’s Andy Jurgensen took the Function Comedy prize. Each are up for Greatest Modifying on the Academy Awards on March 15, the place they may compete towards Stephen Mirrione (F1), Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme) and Olivier Bugge Coutté (Sentimental Worth).
Because the flip of the twenty first century, the Eddie winner for theatrical drama has gone on to attain the Academy Award for Greatest Modifying 14 of 26 instances — however solely as soon as up to now 5 years, for Oppenheimer. Depraved and Emilia Pérez took the prime movie honors on the 2025 Eddies, with Anora‘s Sean Baker occurring the win the Oscar for Greatest Movie Modifying.
The evening’s first large movie prize went to Nathan Schauf of the awards-season juggernaut KPop Demon Hunters for Greatest Edited Animated Function. The Netflix pic is scorching off its sweep on the Annie Awards and a VES Award this week.
On the TV facet, the Greatest Edited Drama Sequence prize went to HBO Max’s The Pitt, which gained the Drama Sequence Emmy in September, and HBO’s The Penguin took the Restricted Sequence award. One other 2025 Emmy winner, Apple TV’s The Studio, gained the trophy for Single Digital camera Sequence, and CBS’ now-wrapped Frasier acquired the Multi-Digital camera class.
The documentary classes had been handed out first, with The Good Neighbor profitable for movie and HBO’s Pee-wee as Himself taking the TV prize.
Different winners included the editors behind the splendidly controversial “Twisted Christian” episode of South Park for Greatest Edited Animated Sequence, Saturday Evening Reside fiftieth Anniversary Particular for Selection Speak/Sketch Present or Particular, Conan O’Brien Should Go for Non-Scripted Sequence and All of the Empty Rooms for Greatest Edited Quick. A Winter’s Tune gained for Greatest Edited Function Movie (Non-Theatrical).
The editors group offered a handful of particular honors tonight.
Two-time Oscar winner Ang Lee will obtain the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the 12 months Award. Alongside along with his Greatest Director wins for Lifetime of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, Lee’s many movies embrace Gemini Man (2019), Billy Lynn’s Lengthy Halftime Stroll (2016), Lust, Warning (2007), Hulk (2003), Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Marriage ceremony Banquet (1993). His Eat Drink Man Girl (1994), The Ice Storm (1997) and Taking Woodstock (2009) premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition, as did Couching Tiger.
Emmy-winning Regulation & Order editor-director Arthur Forney, who additionally has eight different Emmy noms for the NBC franchise’s mothership sequence, accepted the primary of two ACE Profession Achievement awards. The prize was offered by longtime L&O franchise stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni. Forney different credit embrace a whole lot of episodes of Regulation & Order: SVU and Organized Crime together with NBC’s Chicago P.D., Med and Hearth and CBS’ FBI.
Oscar-nominated editor Robert Leighton acquired the opposite Profession Achievement, offered by Christopher Visitor, who directed three movies he edited: Greatest in Present, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. Leighton’s dozens of movie credit additionally embrace Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Males — for which Leighton acquired his Oscar nom — This Is Spinal Faucet, When Harry Met Sally…, Stand by Me and The Princess Bride together with Bull Durham, Distress, Ghosts of Mississippi, Shall We Dance? and Now You See Me.
The ACE Visionary Award went to YouTube and was be accepted by Kim Larson, Managing Director and Head of the Creator and Gaming crew. The award was offered by Michele Khare, host of the favored YouTube docuseries Problem Accepted.
The In Memoriam phase included tributes to Reiner, Chris Willingham, Don Zimmerman, Jane Kass, William Steinkamp, Alan C. Marks, John Soh and Ted Woerner.
Deli Boys star and Wrecked alum Asif Ali hosted the ceremony.
Listed below are the 2026 ACE Eddie Awards:
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)
Sinners
Michael P. Shawver
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical)
One Battle After One other
Andy Jurgensen
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (NON-THEATRICAL)
A Winter’s Tune
Yvette M. Amirian
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
KPop Demon Hunters
Nathan Schauf
BEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
Frasier (Homicide Most Finch)
Russell Griffin
BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES
The Studio (The Promotion)
Eric Kissack
BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES
The Penguin (A Nice or Little Factor)
Henk van Eeghen
BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES
The Pitt (6pm)
Mark Strand
BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES
South Park (Twisted Christian)
David Checklist, Nate Pellettieri
BEST EDITED SHORT
All of the Empty Rooms
Erin Casper, Stephen Maing, Jeremy Medoff
BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Conan O’Brien Should Go (Austria)
Matthew Shaw, Brad Roelandt
BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL
Saturday Evening Reside fiftieth Anniversary Particular
Paul Del Gesso, Christopher Salerno, Ryan Spears, Sean Mcilraith, Ryan Mcilraith, Daniel Garcia
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Good Neighbor
Viridiana Lieberman
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Pee-wee as Himself – Half One
Damian Rodriguez
ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING
Luis Barragan – California State College, Fullerton
