Mere days after the Twitter uproar over Bohemian Rhapsody's Oscar nominations switched from its Best Picture inclusion to Best Film Editing due to a particularly egregiously-edited clip doing the rounds, it only goes and wins one of the biggest editing awards in the business. The American Cinema Editors' 2018 Eddie Award winners have been announced, and they're pretty much as you'd expect, that is if you'd expect a selection of the film editing industry's brightest minds to reward shoddy work on a horrible movie. Meh. You can see the year's Eddie nominees here, and their freshly-announced winners below.
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)
John Ottman (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favourite)
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Robert Fisher Jr. (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Best Edited Documentary Feature
Bob Eisenhardt (Free Solo)
Student Award
Marco Gonzalez - Boston University
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