Avid Congratulates Its Customers Nominated for the 66th Annual ACE Eddie Awards
February 03 2016 - 9:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today congratulated its customers in the
professional video editing community for their outstanding
achievements at the 2016 American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards
held on January 29 in Los Angeles. An overwhelming number of award
winners and nominees embraced Avid EverywhereTM, using the
industry’s most proven and trusted video editing software Avid
Media Composer®.
Avid customer and editor Margaret Sixel won an Eddie award for
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) for Mad Max: Fury
Road. “I’m thrilled to have been honored by the American
Cinema Editors, and I’m so very proud to have won for Fury Road, an
enduring place in the annals of ACE history,” she said. “As Nux the
War Boy says in Fury Road, ‘We live, we die! We live
again!’’
“We’re honored that the world’s most esteemed editors have
embraced Avid Everywhere and continue to trust in the industry’s
preeminent editing solution to bring the most compelling stories to
our screens,” said Avid Chairman, President and CEO Louis Hernandez
Jr. “We congratulate our customers on their impressive
achievements, and are honored that our tools helped to empower
their remarkable creativity that the ACE membership
recognized.”
Eddie Award nominees relied on Media Composer to create:
- Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):
- Mad Max: Fury Road (Margaret Sixel) -
WINNER
- The Martian (Pietro Scalia, ACE)
- The Revenant (Stephen Mirrione, ACE)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Maryann Brandon, ACE & Mary
Jo Markey, ACE)
- Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical):
- Ant-Man (Dan Lebental, ACE & Colby Parker, Jr., ACE)
- Joy (Jay Cassidy, ACE, Alan Baumgarten, ACE, Christopher
Tellefsen, ACE & Tom Cross, ACE)
- Best Edited One-Hour Series For Commercial Television:
- Better Call Saul: "Five-O" (Kelley Dixon, ACE)
- Better Call Saul: “Uno” (Skip Macdonald, ACE)
- Best Edited One-Hour Series For Non-Commercial Television
- Game of Thrones: “The Dance of Dragons” (Katie Weiland)
- Game of Thrones: “Hardhome” (Tim Porter)
About Avid
Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the industry's most
open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting
content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution
and consumption. Media organizations and creative
professionals use Avid solutions to create the most listened
to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most
prestigious and award-winning feature films, to the most
popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting
events, as well as a majority of today’s most celebrated music
recordings and live concerts. Industry leading solutions include
Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet,
Maestro, PlayMaker, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid
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with the permission of the Interplay Entertainment Corp. which
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specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to
change without notice.
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