Trio of photos top ACE Eddie Honours

'The Descendants'"The Descendants," "The Artist" and "Rango" required feature film kudos because the American Cinema Editors gave out their ACE Eddie Honours."The Descendants" and editor Kevin Tent won for the best-edited dramatic feature. "The Artist" editor Anne-Sophie Brion and editor-author-director Michel Hazanavicius won for comedy or musical feature. "Rango's" Craig Wood won for animated feature. The award for Tent and "The Descendants" spurred a particularly noisy ovation, because it came just moments following the ACE had saluted the pic's helmer, Alexander Payne, using its Golden Eddie filmmaker of the season award, and Payne had shipped a wry speech explaining how he works together with Tent.Payne, who always known to Tent by his full title and affiliation, described he stops watching dailies after about two days of shooting and trusts Tent's set of the way the dailies look. "Highly attuned through the years to the subtlest nuances within the mellifluous voice of Kevin Tent, A.C.E., I'm able to readily discern as he lies so when he informs the reality.Inch "On set I alone am the crowd,Inch stated Payne, "psychologically checking this raw material for believability, rhythm, vividness and cutting points. But Kevin Tent, A.C.E., is my audience, and that i hunger to impress him." Payne offered three ideas about editing itself: "One, editing may be the ongoing procedure for disguising how bad the film is really. # 2, every single day we edit, we result in the film suck less. And number 3, editing may be the natural condition of guy."Within the TV groups, Steven Rasch required the half-hour series award for "Curb Your Enthusiasm - Palestinian Chicken." Rasch, who had been also nommed to have an espisode of "Modern Family" quipped that "Of my fellow nominees, I'm able to say a minumum of one was very worthy." "Breaking Bad - Face Off" and editor Skip Macdonald won for hourlong for commercial television. The "Homeland" pilot and editors Jordan Goldman & David Latham required non-commercial hourlong honors. The "Cinema Verite" team of Sarah Flack & Robert Pulcini" won for miniseries or TV movie. "Anthony Borudain: No Bookings - Haiti" and editor Eric Lasby won for reality series. "Freedom Riders" editors Lewis Erskine and Aljernon CQ Tunsil required documentary honors. Anne V. Coates, editor of "Lawrence of Arabia" among other classic films, have a noisy standing ovation as she found the podium to provide a student award to Eric Kench. Two editors received Career Achievement Honours: Doug Ibold and Joel Cox. Dick Wolf introduced Ibold, remembering a chapter of "Miami Vice" Ibold edited that were directed by Don Manley. "It went one half-million dollars over budget, which was 1986," remembered Wolf. "The episdode made no sense." In the climax, Ibold intercut a scene of Manley having sex to guest star Melanie Griffith having a scene of drug sellers killing guest star Vanity. "You will find within the last 26 years nobody has intercut sex and violence on network TV," quipped Wolf. Ibold noted it had been two decades because the ACE made the decision to upgrade the Eddie Honours. In 1992, he stated "Clint Eastwood was our first filmmaker of the season and Joel Cox won an Oscar for editing 'Unforgiven.' And you know what? We are all here tonight."Eastwood introduced Cox, who received another Career Achievement Award. Eastwood stated "Joel and that i were here two decades ago. We have frequently wondered the reason why you haven't asked us back." Fast-paced ceremony occured in the Beverly Hilton. Contact David S. Cohen at david.cohen@variety.com