King Richard pulled off a surprise ACE win tonight
At the ACE Eddies tonight, the big surprise was King Richard winning the top drama award, beating out Belfast and Power of the Dog, not just showing the strength of King Richard, which is expected to win Best Actor for Will Smith, but also revealing some real weakness in supposed Best Picture frontrunner POTD, which certainly isn’t just walking away with the guild wins. We’re going to have to see what the story is with the PGA, whether that or something else can win on a preferential ballot. On a side note, the ceremony was interrupted roughly six times with very angry objections from the editors to having the editing Oscar cut from the live broadcast on Oscar night. If you ask me they should ALL boycott the show and nip this mess in the bud right now.
2022 ACE EDDIE WINNERS
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): King Richard
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedic): tick, tick…Boom!
Best Edited Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Edited Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul
Over at the Art Directors Guild awards, things went as expected, with Dune and Nightmare Alley taking top honors in their genres- I think Dune is the likely winner of most of these tech awards, but since production design is yet another award deemed “not important” enough to air on the live show, we’ll be getting the Oscar winner of this category tweeted at us during the red carpet instead. Which is again, BULLSHIT, and all of these nominees should refuse to show up and make ABC eat their toothless threats. They’ll walk this all back in an instant with enough pushback, trust me. All they need is the big names to sign on.
2022 ADG WINNERS
PERIOD: Nightmare Alley
FANTASY: Dune
CONTEMPORARY: No Time to Die
