THE MAGAZINE FOR FILM & TELEVISION EDITORS, ASSISTANTS & POST- PRODUCTION PROFESSIONALS IN THIS ISSUE BLACK PANTHER THE EDDIE AWARDS US $8.95 / Canada $8.95 ISSUE QTR 1 / 2018 / VOL 68 FEATURING ACE Golden Eddie Honoree Vince Gilligan, Career Achievement Honorees Mark Goldblatt, ACE, and Leon Ortiz-Gil, ACE, and much more! Tell the best story possible The professional’s choice for creative editing Whether you’re a Media Composer veteran, or new to video editing, working with Media Composer is now easier than ever. We’ve streamlined the interface and added features to make editing simpler and more fun. And we continue to add new features all the time. Subscribe to Media Composer and you will enjoy a steady stream of new tools and software updates that enable you to work faster with the latest media technologies. This constant, rapid innovation is why editors trust Media Composer and why 95% of mainstream movies - and most TV series - were “edited on Avid”. 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BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON 02 CINEMAEDITOR QTR 1 / 2018 / VOL 68 Cover image: Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Isaach De Bankolé, Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Daniel Kaluuya, and Letitia Wright in Black Panther. ©Marvel Studios 2018. The new DaVinci Resolve 14 is now up to 10 times faster with new editing tools, full Fairlight audio post production and new multi user collaboration tools! DaVinci Resolve 14 is a new revolution in post Software production! The world’s most advanced editing DaVinci Resolve 14 .................. Free Download and color correction software is now up to 10 times DaVinci Resolve 14 Studio ....................... $299 faster, includes an entirely new audio post production suite, multi user collaboration tools, Hardware and dozens of new filters and effects, including amazing face refinement tools! 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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. e Florida Project Mindhunter Uncommonly good stories Only the Brave with one thing in common. More editors and filmmakers are turning to Adobe Premiere Pro CC Deadpool to bring their ideas to film, television, and the web. A Ghost Story Atlanta © 2018 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, and Adobe Premiere are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Discovering Excellence With the annual ACE Eddie Awards behind us, we always explore what can be improved and how we need to evolve with the changing way content now comes to us – in terms of how it affects our awards ceremony and also the many others during awards season. Because it is not only the financial and economic bottom line and the amount of viewers that select winners but there are also aspirational, artistic and inspirational considerations that play an important role determining what will, needs to be or should be awarded. The ACE Board of Directors has a standing Blue Ribbon committee that each year carefully and expertly determines and advises the Board about the award categories and line-up. They discuss the changes in production, post-production and distribution affecting the creative assessment of films and shows so the voting ACE membership can fairly choose their favorites. With the arrival of the cable-cutting streamers like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and an ever-increasing number of choices presented on smart TVs and streaming devices, the competition has intensified. For editors it has meant that creatively much of the most interesting work nowadays seems to be generated by the small screen; and small is, of course, very relative with the ever-increasing size of home theater devices that in size and definition are beginning to resemble the screens of small theaters. The definition of small screen also includes cell phones and tablets. We might not want to watch a 90-minute drama previously released in theaters on them, but viewing a 20-minute sitcom does not seem to be so weird or unusual. It does, however, mean competition for the big screen, even if it only takes content-consumable time away. When theaters were the only way content could be distributed, there was room for cinemas that showed culturally and creatively interesting content in addition to the crowd-pleasing box office blockbusters. Now the indies find their audience on iTunes, Amazon and Netflix hoping that a successful run on the streamers can vault them into the mainstream. Even if that does not happen there has been a proliferation of festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Telluride, Tribeca and others that can shine a light on the indies that are daring to innovate. At ACE, we always try to broaden our view of what goes on in the film and TV business because it is our goal to award excellence in editing wherever it might happen. Excellence sometimes can be found in obscure places of creativity and we challenge ourselves to find ways to give it its proper and deserved attention. –Edgar Burcksen, ACE 06 CINEMAEDITOR QTR 1 / 2018 / VOL 68 Photo by Peter Zakhary. Warner Bros. Pictures congratulates ACE Eddie Award Winner Lee Smith, ACE Dunkirk and ACE Eddie Award Nominees David Burrows, ACE Matt Villa and John Venzon, ACE The Lego Batman Movie Joe Walker, ACE Blade Runner 2049 Official Periodical of the American Cinema Editors, Inc. Founded November 28, 1950. EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR IN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL EDITOR EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Edgar Burcksen, ACE Adrian Pennington Carolyn Giardina ART DIRECTOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT PRESIDENT Luci Zakhary Peter Zakhary Stephen Rivkin, ACE VICE PRESIDENT BUSINESS AFFAIRS Alan Heim, ACE PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION COORDINATOR PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ADVERTISING & DISTRIBUTION SECRETARY Jenni McCormick Marika Ellis Gemmalyn Brunson Peter Zakhary Lillian Benson, ACE ADVISORY BOARD TREASURER Stephen Lovejoy, ACE Edgar Burcksen, ACE Harry B. Miller III, ACE Andrew Seklir, ACE CONTRIBUTORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Edgar Burcksen, ACE, is the Editor in Chief of and Harry B. Miller III, ACE, serves on the ACE Board a regular contributor to CinemaEditor magazine. He also of Directors. His recent credits include Panama 3D, Anita Brandt Burgoyne, ACE serves on the ACE Board of Directors. Warehouse 13 and Hitting the Cycle. Jacqueline Cambas, ACE Tina Hirsch, ACE Walter Fernandez Jr. was the Editor in Chief of Adrian Pennington is a journalist, editor and mar- CinemaEditor magazine from August 2010 until June keting copywriter whose articles have appeared in the Maysie Hoy, ACE 2013. He has worked in marketing and distribution at Financial Times, British Cinematographer, Screen Inter- IMAX and the MPAA. He has written for CinemaEditor national, The Hollywood Reporter, Premiere, Broadcast, Bonnie Koehler, ACE since 2003. RTS Television and The Guardian. He is co-author Carol Littleton, ACE of Exploring 3D: The New Grammar of Stereoscopic Mary Jo Markey, ACE Carolyn Giardina is an award-winning journalist and Filmmaking (Focal Press, 2012) and his favorite film of author who serves as tech editor at The Hollywood all time is Gilda.