ACE Nods
Nominees in all categories, as announced by the ACE Board of Directors, are as follows:
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
The Bourne Ultimatum
April 25, 2024
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
In a perfect world, they already has sent the award to Christopher Rouse for Ultimatum.
Atonement is this year’s Dreamgirls or maybe it’s Sweeney Todd that gets the “overhyped by pundits so we refuse to vote for it” award.
Which is a shame because unlike Dreamgirls it actually deserves the awards it’s not getting. The Gilroy househole must be loving this past week! DGA, WGA and Eddie noms for Gilroys! Not to mention the love for Bourne, which he also wrote.
Why does this have a 1:45 AM time stamp when the list, which everyone had received, was embargoed until 5?
Never a dull moment…
No, it doesn’t KC…that’s why it’s getting routinely snubbed ;-P
Does “Sweeney Todd” have any traction at all?? Seems to be falling through the cracks in every sense of the word but are voters behind it?
Yeah, that sort of blows. When you honor an embargo and someone breaks it…dirty dirty.
Anyway, Dave says it “narrows the field,” but hardly. The field was narrowed already – this confirms it. The only missing one is Diving Bell. It is possible but very rare to get into the Best Picture race with only one guild nod, even an Ace nod. They make it easier with a double category. Juno is the only one off the MC list with a shot, imo.
Cranky, cranky.
And Sasha… I wish you would read what I write instead of what you project onto it. “if it seems to narrow the field in the least.” IF!
How in the world did Zodiac miss out on an editing nomination? To take a movie containing such a labyrinth of material and exposition, that spans over 20 years, and not only make it comprehensible but riveting… that to me is great movie editing. Strange.
How in the world did I’m NOT THERE NOT get a nom? If you loved the film, then you respected how amazingly it was put together. That being said, the Bourne film was pretty f’n impressive.
Come on people, we all know POTC3 is the Best picture of the year!
When does the Best Boy and Key Grip guilds chime in with their awards?