LETTER From The EDITOR

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Acronyms

Honorary societies in the motion picture industry such as American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), Casting Society of America (CSA) and, of course, ACE are mostly known to the public by the acronym that they allow their members to carry after their name. Just like M.D. or Ph.D., these acronyms reflect experience and professionalism.
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Guillermo del Toro
Golden Eddie Honoree

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The teeming imagination of Guillermo del Toro has inspired us with magical worlds filled with fantastic, horrific and unforgettable imagery and characters, from the monsters in Pan’s Labyrinth to the aquatic creature in The Shape of Water.
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Jerrold L. Ludwig, ACE
Career Achievement Award
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If the hallmark of every successful editor is to have elevated all the material they touch few can have done so as consistently and with as much humility as Jerrold (Jerry) Ludwig, ACE. He scaled the Hollywood ladder from messenger boy to go-to editor for some of the most acclaimed TV specials of
the 1980s and 1990s.  read more…

Craig McKay, ACE
Career Achievement Award
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden,” wrote Frances Hodgson Burnett in her classic children’s novel, The Secret Garden. The book has had a number of iterations through the years on both the big and small screens but it was the initial 1949 adaptation that left a very young Craig McKay, ACE, spellbound. read more…

How to Train Your Dragon:
The Hidden World

Produced by DreamWorks Animation, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World concludes the trilogy started with 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon. The film picks up where the second (2014) film dropped off, with Hiccup, now the chief of Berk, having fulfilled his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia.
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