Student Editing Competition Applications Now Open! Don't miss your chance to enter the ACE Student Editing Competition! You could win the Anne V. Coates Award for Student Editing and accept onstage at the 2025 ACE Eddie Awards! Students of film or editing may enter the ACE Student Editing Competition. Applicants must provide the name of the school or university where they are studying and the name of a professor or instructor on the ACE application. Applications are being accepted: Nov. 16, 2024 - Dec. 16, 2024

The late Anne V. Coates, ACE, earned an Academy Award for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and received an Honorary Award at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2016 Governors Awards. She earned four additional Oscar nominations for Becket, The Elephant Man, In the Line of Fire and Out of Sight. ACE honors her contribution to the art of editing by naming this award, the "Anne V. Coates Award for Student Editing."