By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) HONORS VETERAN FILM EDITORS DIANE ADLER, ACE, JERRY GREENBERG, ACE AND JOURNALIST CAROLYN GIARDINA WITH HONORARY AWARDS



Awards to be presented at the 65th Annual ACE Eddie Awards on January 30, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Jerry Greenberg, ACE
Lifetime Career Achievement Honoree
Diane Adler, ACE
Lifetime Career Achievement Honoree
Carolyn Giardina
Robert Wise Award Honoree
          Universal City, January 21, 2015 – American Cinema Editors (ACE) will present veteran editors Diane Adler, ACE and Jerry Greenberg, ACE with the organization’s prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement honors at the 65th Annual ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, January 30, 2015 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  The Lifetime Career Achievement Award honors veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding.  Carolyn Giardina will receive the esteemed Robert Wise Award, which recognizes a journalist whose writing has contributed significantly in elevating public consciousness to the crucial role of editing in the filmmaking process.  This honor is presented periodically, not every year, and is voted upon by the ACE Board of Directors, while the Career Achievement honors are an annual tradition.  As previously announced, award winning filmmaker Frank Marshall will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award and winners for best editing will be announced in ten categories of film, television and documentaries.  A full list on nominees can be found at AMERICANCINEMAEDITORS.COM.

“Diane Adler, Jerry Greenberg and Carolyn Giardina represent the best in their fields,” stated the ACE Board of Directors.  “It’s not only their tremendous contributions to film, television and journalism that warrant recognition, it is their tireless dedication to their craft – the tenacity each of them has shown is the kind of energy and dedication that our organization thrives on and delights in recognizing in these outstanding and deserving honorees.”

ABOUT DIANE ADLER, ACE

Diane Adler, ACE is probably best known for her work editing some of the most memorable television series’ in history:  The Rockford Files, Spencer: For Hire and Kojak.  Despite her success, Adler didn’t start off wanting to be an editor or even part of the entertainment industry.  Her primary goal when she started out in the 1950’s was to earn enough money to send both of her kids to college.  Yet despite putting motherhood first, over the next four decades, she would leave an indelible mark on American television and immerse herself in various leadership roles within entertainment industry organizations such as American Cinema Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

She got her start at Ziv Productions where she worked as the highest paid secretary making $115 a week, but craving advancement.  Her hard work paid off when one of her bosses at Ziv, Don Tait, moved to 20thCentury Fox where they were just starting up their TV division, and hired Adler to help cut television commercials into the TV programs.  She later worked at 4 Star Productions where she met film editor Tom Rolf, ACE.  In the early 1960’s, Rolf subsequently moved on to Paramount where he was cutting features and called Adler to come in for a one-week gig as an Assistant Editor on a project.  Adler jumped at the chance to get the experience and took the gig despite its short-term parameters.  As luck would have it, Rolf’s regular Assistant Editor left to pursue another opportunity and Adler got the job steady.  Chuck West, head of Paramount editorial at the time took notice of Adler’s killer work ethic and her one-week gig turned into a two-year stint at the studio.  There she worked as an assistant editor on various features for editors including Stuart Gilmore, Bill Brame and John Woodcock with whom she worked on El Dorado starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.

Assistant editing was going well for her and then television came calling when she was offered a job as an Assistant Editor at Warner Bros. and worked on several popular TV series of the day.  From there she edited many movies-of-the-week such as Huckleberry Finn, The New Maverick, Thursday’s Game and Girl Most Likely to… and she worked a season editing the acclaimed series Kojak.  But it was The Rockford Files, where she spent five years as an editor, where she really felt like she was home.  To this day, the crew still celebrates RockFest each July, an annual reunion for those who worked on the show.

Her additional series credits include Bret Maverick, Riptide, Hunter and The Rousters, along with made-for-TV movies like She’s in the Army Now, Percy & Thunder and Wild Jack.  Her other feature credits include co-editing The Presidio.  

After retiring in the early 1990’s, Adler dedicated herself to organizations such as ACE and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.  She is currently on the board of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and actively involved with ACE.  She produces the organization’s “Invisible Art/Visible Artists” panel held annually with the Oscar® nominated editors the day before the Academy Awards.  And, after four decades of work, she sent both of her kids to college.

ABOUT JERRY GREENBERG, ACE

Jerry Greenberg, ACE is a three-time Oscar® nominee, winning once in 1972 for his work on The French Connection, for which he also won a BAFTA Award for best editing.  He also was Oscar® nominated twice in the same year (1980) for Kramer vs. Kramer and Apocalypse Now.  

Greenberg is known for his work on many of the films of the American New Wave working for directors like Arthur Penn, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma and William Friedkin.  His filmography includes Bye Bye Braverman, Dressed To Kill, Alice’s Restaurant, The Boys in the Band, They Might Be Giants, Scarface, Still of the Night, Reds, Heaven’s Gate, Wise Guys, The Untouchables, The Accused and Awakenings, Trapped, Get Carter, Inspector Gadget and American History X, among many others.

He began his career in his native New York in 1960 where he learned how to edit music and began familiarizing himself with the Moviola, splicers, synchronizers and recorders.  He was ready for his big break and he got it when he was offered an apprenticing job for the legendary Dede Allen on Elia Kazan’s America America.  By 1967, Greenberg and Allen were working closely together and on Bonnie and ClydeGreenberg was given the task of editing a couple of the shootout scenes and worked closely with Allen and director Arthur Penn on them.  Not soon after, his career was off and running.  He cut his first solo feature Bye Bye Braverman for director Sidney Lumet in 1971 and won the Oscar® and BAFTA for editing William Friedkin’s The French Connection a year later.  The infamous car chase from that film has been dissected and taught at film schools ever since.

ABOUT CAROLYN GIARDINA AND THE ROBERT WISE AWARD

Award-winning journalist and author Carolyn Giardina has covered editing and post-production throughout her career. She serves as contributing editor, tech, at The Hollywood Reporter, for which she writes its ‘Behind the Screen’ blog. Carolyn has also worked in the U.S. and abroad as an editor, reporter or columnist for publications including SHOOT, Film & Video, The IBC Daily and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal.  Since 2013 she has served as editorial consultant for ACE’s in-house publication, CinemaEditor.

As a member of the Hollywood Post Alliance board, she co-founded the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, which is now in its 10th year.  She also regularly contributes to the community as a conference speaker and moderator.

She is co-author of “Exploring 3D” (Focal Press, 2012), which examines the aesthetics and creative potential of incorporating depth into storytelling. In 2011, she received the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for outstanding journalistic contributions to cinematography.

The Robert Wise Award was first presented at the 50th Annual ACE Eddie Awards and has only been presented a few times in the last fifteen years.  Past recipients include Jack Tucker, ACE, Edgar Burcksen, ACE, Vinny LoBrutto, ACE, Steven Cohen, ACE, writer Michael Ondaatje.

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950.  Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing.

The objectives and purposes of the AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS are to advance the art and science of the editing profession; to increase the entertainment value of motion pictures by attaining artistic pre-eminence and scientific achievement in the creative art of editing; to bring into close alliance those editors who desire to advance the prestige and dignity of the editing profession.

ACE produces several annual events including EditFest (an international editing festival), Invisible Art/Visible Artists (annual panel of Oscar® nominated editors), and the ACE Eddie Awards, now in its 65thyear, recognizing outstanding editing in ten categories of film, television and documentaries.
The organization publishes a quarterly magazine, CinemaEditor, highlighting the art, craft and business of editing and editors.

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