'Arrival,' 'La La Land' And 'Game of Thrones' Major 2017 ACE Eddie Awards Winners

The 2017 ACE Eddie Awards Winners were announced Saturday night in Beverly Hills and there were a few surprise winners that deviated from the usual awards season trends (or were creating new trends in the TV categories).

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In the film categories “La La Land” took the Comedy Film honor while “Arrival” upset “Moonlight,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Hell or High Water” to win the Dramatic equivalent.  Zootopia” took Animated Film and “O.J.: Made in America” earned the Documentary prize.

Among the television winners “Veep” earned the Half-Hour Series award while “This Is Us” upset three different nominated episodes of “Better Call Saul” (well, perhaps it wasn’t an upset) in the One-Hour Series- Commercial category.  Game of Thrones” took out stiff competition from “The Crown,” “Westworld” and two “Stranger Things” episodes for the One-Hour Series-Non-Commercial honor.  “All the Way” also surprised in the Mini-Series or TV Movie category marking one of the few times “The People vs. O.J Simpson: American Crime Story” hasn’t taken home an industry honor.

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Special honors were awarded to J.J. Abrams, Thelma Schoonmaker, Janet Ashikaga, Lori Coleman, Diana Friedberg and William Gordean.

The complete list of winners and nominees are as follows:

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
Arrival – WINNER
Joe Walker, ACE

Hacksaw Ridge
John Gilbert, ACE

Hell or High Water
Jake Roberts

Manchester by the Sea
Jennifer Lame

Moonlight
Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY):
Deadpool
Julian Clarke, ACE

Hail, Caesar!
Roderick Jaynes

The Jungle Book
Mark Livolsi, ACE

La La Land – WINNER
Tom Cross, ACE

The Lobster
Yorgos Mavropsaridis

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Kubo and the Two Strings
Christopher Murrie, ACE

Moana
Jeff Draheim, ACE

Zootopia – WINNER
Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):

13th
Spencer Averick

Amanda Knox
Matthew Hamachek

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Paul Crowder

O.J.: Made in America – WINNER
Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski

Weiner
Eli B. Despres

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION):
The Choice 2016
Steve Audette, ACE

Everything is Copy – WINNER
Bob Eisenhart, ACE

We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
Oliver Lief

BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES:
Silicon Valley: “The Uptick”
Brian Merken, ACE

Veep: “Morning After” – WNNER
Steven Rasch, ACE

Veep: “Mother”
Shawn Paper

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES – COMMERCIAL:
Better Call Saul: “Fifi”
Skip Macdonald, ACE

Better Call Saul: “Klick”
Skip Macdonald, ACE & Curtis Thurber

Better Call Saul: “Nailed”
Kelley Dixon, ACE & Chris McCaleb

Mr. Robot: “eps2.4m4ster-s1ave.aes”
Philip Harrison

This is Us: “Pilot” – WINNER
David L. Bertman, ACE

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES – NON-COMMERCIAL:
The Crown: “Assassins”
Yan Miles, ACE

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards” – WINNER
Tim Porter, ACE

Stranger Things: “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”
Dean Zimmerman

Stranger Things: “Chapter Seven: The Bathtub”
Kevin D. Ross

Westworld: “The Original”
Stephen Semel, ACE & Marc Jozefowicz

BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE (NON-THEATRICAL):
All the Way – WINNER
Carol Littleton, ACE

The Night Of: “The Beach”
Jay Cassidy, ACE

The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
Adam Penn, Stewart Schill, ACE & C. Chi-yoon Chung

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: “Manila” – WINNER
Hunter Gross, ACE

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Senegal
Mustafa Bhagat

Deadliest Catch: “Fire at Sea: Part 2”
Josh Earl, ACE & Alexander Rubinow, ACE