The

American Cinema Editors Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal ...

(ACE) gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year. The first awards were given in 1988. Article indicates that Milford received the ACE Career Achievement Award in 1987; the actual award year appears to be 1988.

List of honorees

2020s

*2020:

Alan Heim Alan Heim, ACE (born May 31, 1936) is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for editing '' All That Jazz''. Biography Heim was born in the Bronx, New York. He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected ...

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Tina Hirsch Tina Hirsch (born 1943)—also known as Bettina Kugel Hirsch, Bettina Hirsch, and Bettina Kugel—is an American film editor and an adjunct professor of editing at the University of Southern California.

2010s

*2019: Craig McKay and Jerrold L. Ludwig *2018:

Mark Goldblatt Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominated American film editor and film director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors. Brooklyn born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instru ...

and Leon Ortiz-Gil *2017: Janet Ashikaga and

Thelma Schoonmaker Thelma Schoonmaker (; born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, known for her over five decades of work with frequent director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film ''Who's That Knocking at My Door' ...

*2016:

Carol Littleton Carol Sue Littleton, (born October 23, 1942) is an American film editor. Her work includes ''Body Heat'' (1981), '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), and '' The Big Chill'' (1983). Littleton was the recipient of an Emmy Award for Outsta ...

and Ted Rich *2015: Diane Adler and Gerald B. Greenberg *2014:

Richard Halsey Richard Halsey (born 1940) is an American film editor with more than 60 credits from 1970 onwards. An alumnus of Hollywood High School, he won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 49th Academy Awards for editing ''Rocky'' with Scott Con ...

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Robert C. Jones Robert Clifford Jones (March 30, 1936 – February 1, 2021) was an American film editor, screenwriter, and educator. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film '' Coming Home'' (1978). As an editor, Jones had notable collabor ...

*2013:

Richard Marks Richard Marks (November 10, 1943 – December 31, 2018) was an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration (1983–2010), he edited all of direct ...

and Lawrence Silk *2012:

Joel Cox Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films. Life and career Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in ''Random Harvest'' (1942). He started i ...

and Doug Ibold *2011: Michael Kahn and Michael Brown *2010: Paul LaMastra and

Neil Travis Herbert Neil Travis (October 12, 1936 – March 28, 2012) was an American film and television editor with about 28 feature film credits from 1970–2007. He is likely best known for editing the television miniseries ''Roots'' (1977) and the fe ...

2000s

*2009: Sidney Katz and Arthur Schmidt *2008: Millie Moore and Bud S. Smith *2007: John Soh and Frank J. Urioste *2006:

Edward M. Abroms Edward M. Abroms (May 6, 1935 – February 13, 2018) was an American film editor and TV director. Abroms was born and raised in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He studied film at the University of Southern California before dropping out to go to work at ...

and Terry Rawlings *2005: David Blewitt and

Jim Clark James Clark Jr. OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. A versatile driver, he competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianapol ...

*2004:

Donn Cambern Donn Cambern (born October 9, 1929) is an American film editor. Cambern was born in Los Angeles, California, and obtained a B.A. in music from UCLA. In 2007, Cambern was senior filmmaker-in-residence at the American Film Institute Conservatory.

and John A. Martinelli *2003: John F. Burnett and

Tom Rolf Ernst Ragnar Rolf (December 31, 1931 – July 14, 2014), better known as Tom Rolf, was a Swedish-born American film editor who worked on at least 48 feature films in a career spanning over fifty years. Most notable among these films are Marti ...

*2002: Antony Gibbs and George Watters *2001: Stanley Frazen and

Fredric Steinkamp Fredric Steinkamp (August 22, 1928 – February 20, 2002) was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from '' They Sh ...

*2000:

Dann Cahn Daniel Richard "Dann" Cahn (April 9, 1923 – November 21, 2012) was an American film editor who received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Cahn was best known as the head editor of the TV series, ''I Lo ...

and Marge Fowler

1990s

*1999: John Bloom and

Arthur Schneider Arthur Schneider (January 26, 1930 – October 1, 2009) was a television pioneer and a four-time Emmy Award winning television editor, with a career spanning from 1951 to 1988. Early years Arthur Schneider grew up in New York, and attended Brig ...

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on 2008-05-28. *1998:

Gerry Hambling Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 – 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, '' The Commitments'' (1991), ''Missis ...

and John Woodcock *1997: Fred W. Berger and Harry W. Gerstad *1996:

Desmond Marquette Desmond Marquette (November 1, 1908 – August 7, 1999) was a film editor for Crime Ring and others. In 1996 he was co-winner of the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award The American Cinema Editors (ACE) gives one or more Career Achiev ...

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Aaron Stell Aaron Stell (March 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996, in Los Angeles) was an American film editor with one hundred feature film credits and many additional credits for his television work. Stell worked for more than a decade at the start of his career ...

*1995: David Bretherton and Anne V. Coates *1994:

Dede Allen Dorothea Corothers "Dede" Allen (December 3, 1923 – April 17, 2010) This obituary incorrectly states that she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was subsequently acknowledged in an online correction. was an American film editor, well-known " ...

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Gene Ruggiero Gene S. Ruggiero (June 20, 1910 – February 19, 2002) was an American film editor. Originally a golf caddy at an exclusive New York country club, Ruggiero was fired from his job and later went to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he was assigned the ...

*1993: Rudi Fehr and Robert Swink *1992:

Harold F. Kress Harold Frank Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for '' How ...

and Charles Nelson *1991: William H. Reynolds and

Ralph E. Winters Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 – February 26, 2004) was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry. After beginning on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in ...

*1990:

Margaret Booth Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 – October 28, 2002) was an American film editor. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, she started her Hollywood career as a "patcher", editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Her brother was actor ...

and

Elmo Williams James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film ''High Noon'' (1952) received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In 2006, Williams ...

1980s

*1989:

Warren Low Warren Low (August 12, 1905 – July 27, 1989) was an American film editor who worked on ''Now, Voyager'', '' Out of the Fog'', and others. He was an originator for what became the American Cinema Editors and received awards from them. Partial ...

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Dorothy Spencer Dorothy Spencer (February 3, 1909 – May 23, 2002), known as Dot Spencer, was an American film editor with 75 feature film credits from a career that spanned more than 50 years. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing on four oc ...

*1988:

Barbara McLean Barbara "Bobby" McLean (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the stud ...

and Gene Milford

External links and references

{{ACE Awards Chron American Cinema Editors Awards Awards established in 1988 Lifetime achievement awards