The 2025 ACE Eddie Awards are the latest Hollywood event to be postponed amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles.
The 75th annual gala celebrating the best editing of the year in film, television and documentaries was originally scheduled for Saturday. American Cinema Editors (ACE) said Monday evening that a new date will be announced soon.
The ACE Eddie Awards are held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. As Angelenos continue to battle the ongoing wildfires, the show will transition from a red carpet event to a “Come As You Are” community-building fundraiser with a portion of ticket sales donated to Los Angeles wildfire relief.
The annual Nominees Reception, a special event for candidates that was scheduled for Thursday, has also been rescheduled.
“Due to ongoing concerns about safety within our Los Angeles communities, we have made arrangements with UCLA and Royce Hall to postpone the 75th ACE Eddie Awards,” the group said in a statement. “The ACE Board agrees that it is smarter and safer for everyone to push to a later date (to be determined).” …This is unprecedented and we are trying to remain as smooth as possible.” [As] Once we have the details, we’ll let you know, and when the event finally happens, we’ll need to come together more than ever. Thank you for your understanding, and it goes without saying that our hearts go out to all of our members affected by the fires and to our industry as a whole.
In the event, evil Director Jon M. Chu He is set to receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award; Film editors Maisie Howe and Paul Hirsch will receive career achievement awards. Dune Meeting: Part Two and Emilia Perez Among the nominees for feature-length dramatic films Anura, United and Article They were part of the comedy film nominees. In TV categories Murders only in the building, He falls, Nobody wants this and Shogun They were nominated, among many others.
“We look forward to honoring the great work of our honorees and nominees and coming together as a community to support each other,” said ACE President Sabrina Plesko. “In the meantime, we are keeping everyone affected by these fires in our hearts.”
Awards announcements continue to be postponed amid ongoing bushfires. The Writers Guild Awards postponed the announcement of its awards again earlier on Monday, as well as the Producers Guild, which postponed it on Sunday for the second time. Also earlier Monday, the Academy Awards announced that it would extend the voting window to January 19 and postpone the announcement of nominations for a second time, with this year’s nominees now scheduled to be revealed on January 23.
As award shows try to figure out how to confront the rapidly changing fire moment, THRIn his column, Steven Zaitchick, senior awards editor at Academy Magazine, urged the Academy to reform the 2025 Academy Awards and turn it into a “giant arts-based outreach campaign” to meet this moment.
“The Oscars for Agricultural Aid will be an opportunity to take one of the country’s largest television platforms and use it for good and for good old-fashioned spectacle, the kind that is tragic and exhilarating and exciting and wholesome,” he wrote Monday.
The Grammys have already announced that they will create a charity segment at their show on February 2, but have not decided how they will do so yet.
