Predicting The Week In Guilds: ACE
Things aren't slowing down. We've got one more group of pros set to announce tomorrow: the editors. Here's a look at the two categories:
AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) Predictions
Drama:
"Babel," Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
"The Departed," Thelma Schoonmaker
"Flags of Our Fathers," Joel Cox
"The Queen," Lucia Zucchetti
"United 93," Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse
(alt.: "Bobby," Richard Chew)
Comedy/Musical:
"Cars," Ken Schretzmann
"The Devil Wears Prada," Mark Livolsi
"Dreamgirls," Virginia Katz
"Little Miss Sunshine," Pamela Martin
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," Stephen E. Rivkin, Craig Wood
(alt.: "Borat," Craig Alpert, Peter Teschner, James Thomas)
This guild tends to do a good job of landing the Best Picture nominees across their feature film categories. Last year, Michael Kahn's nomination for "Munich" was a pretty good indication for that film, and this year, things aren't as dicey in the big category, so I think we can expect all the frontrunners to show up.
Sadly, I get the indication that "Stranger than Fiction"'s lack-luster box office intake will leave Matt Cheese's rather brilliant work out of the fray entirely, but I hope I'm wrong about that. Also, "Happy Feet" and Christian Gazal's efforts could be waiting to pounce, but comedy is a tough category this year, and given that Pixar has shown up consistently with the guild, I'll place my animated bets with "Cars."
Elsewhere, I guess we'll know for certain whether anyone - ANYONE - saw "Letters from Iwo Jima." Ballots were due for the ACE two days ago, so there has been ample time. But regardless, Joel Cox has "Flags of Our Fathers" to float his boat...maybe.
I'll leave you with my documentary predictions.
Documentary:
"An Inconvenient Truth," Jay Lash Cassidy, Dan Swietlik
"Deliver Us from Evil," Matthew Cooke
"The War Tapes," Steve James, Leslie Simmer
Comments
Kris - isn't BAFTA announcing Friday - care to take a stab at what they'll come up with ??
Posted by: cobhome | January 11, 2007 03:26 PM
Nah. Though I was speaking with a BAFTA member the other night and he indicating a lot of love for "Bobby" within that group. Makes sense. Foreigners seem to respect American idealism much more than Americans do as of late.
Posted by: Kristopher Tapley | January 11, 2007 03:37 PM