The 2025 ACE Eddie Awards are the latest Hollywood event to be postponed amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.
The 75th annual ceremony celebrating the best editing of the year in film, television and documentaries was originally set for Saturday. A new date announcement is coming soon, said the American Cinema Editors (ACE) on Monday night.
The ACE Eddie Awards take place at UCLA’s Royce Hall. As Angelenos continue to battle the ongoing wildfires, the show will pivot from a black-tie red carpet event to a “come as you are” community-building fundraiser with a portion of ticket sales being donated to L.A. wildfire relief.
The annual Nominees Reception, a private event for nominees originally set for Thursday, is also being rescheduled.
“Due to the ongoing concerns for safety within our L.A. communities, we have made arrangements with UCLA and Royce Hall to postpone the 75th ACE Eddie Awards,” said the group in a statement. “The ACE Board agrees it is smarter and safer for everyone to push to a later date (TBD). … This is unprecedented and we are trying to stay as fluid as possible. [As] soon as we have details we will let you know, and when the event finally happens we will need to band together more than ever before. Thank you for your understanding, and it goes without saying that our hearts go out to all of our members who have been affected by the fires and to our industry as a whole.”
At the event, Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu is set to receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award; and film editors Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch will receive Career Achievement Awards. Conclave, Dune: Part Two and Emilia Perez are among the drama feature film nominees while Anora, Challengers and The Substance were part of the comedy film nominees. In the TV categories, Only Murders in the Building, Fallout, Nobody Wants This and Shogun were nominated, among many others.
“We look forward to honoring the incredible work of our honorees and nominees and coming together as a community to support each other,” said ACE president Sabrina Plisco. “In the meantime, we are keeping everyone impacted by these fires in our hearts.”
Awards announcements continue to be postponed amid the ongoing wildfires. The Writers Guild Awards postponed its awards announcement again earlier on Monday, as well as the Producers Guild which on Sunday postponed for a second time. Also earlier on Monday, the Oscars announced it would be extending its voting window until Jan. 19 and pushing back its nominations announcement for the second time, with this year’s nominees now set to be revealed on Jan. 23.
As awards shows attempt to figure out how to meet this fast-changing fires moment, THR‘s senior editor of awards Steven Zeitchik urged in a column for the Academy to overhaul the 2025 Oscars into a “giant, all-in arts-based awareness-raiser” to meet the moment.
“A Farm Aid Oscars would be a chance to take one of the country’s biggest television platforms and use it both for good and for old-fashioned spectacle, the kind that is both tragic and uplifting, exciting and edifying,” he wrote on Monday.
The Grammys have already announced they will build a charity component in to their Feb. 2 show but have yet to say how.
