American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor veteran editors Richard Marks, A.C.E. and Larry Silk, A.C.E. with the organization's prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual ACE Eddie Awards on February 16, 2013 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. Award-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne and Film Critic Kenneth Turan will present to Marks and two-time Oscar-winning Documentarian Barbara Kopple will present to Silk. As previously announced, Steven Spielberg will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor and ACE Eddie Award winners in nine categories of film, television and documentaries will be announced. The evening's MC will be Actor/Comedian David Cross. Nominees were previously announced and can be viewed online at the ACE website: americancinemaeditors.com.
Richard Marks, A.C.E. has worked with a who's who list of directors including
Francis Ford Coppola,
Elia Kazan,
Sidney Lumet,
Nora Ephron,
Mike Nichols,
Joel Schumacher,
Oliver Stone, and has edited every single film edited by the legendary James L. Brooks. Mark's long-time collaboration with Brooks earned him three of his four Oscar nominations for Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good as it Gets. His first Oscar nomination was for editing
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, a shared editing credit with Walter Murch, A.C.E., Gerald B. Greenburg and Lisa Fruchtman.
In addition to four Oscar nominations, Marks has also received four ACE Eddie Award nominations for Apocalypse Now, Broadcast News, As Good as it Gets and, most recently, in 2010 for Julie and Julia. The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has honored Marks with four nominations for The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse Now and Dick Tracy. Marks was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for editing the 74th Annual Academy Awards presentation.
His body of work is diverse and displays enduring relevancy: Serpico, The Last Tycoon, St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Say Anything, Father of the Bride, A League of Their Own, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, The Crow: City of Angels, You've Got Mail, and The Holiday, are some of the titles in his impressive filmography.
Larry Silk, A.C.E., edited some of the most prolific and memorable documentaries in cinematic history including One Survivor Remembers, Marjoe, and American Dream, all of which won Oscars. Among his other credits are the 1977 hit that made
Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, Pumping Iron, and
Woody Allen: Wild Man Blues which was named Best Documentary of the year by the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics Association in 1997. Other credits include:
Johnny Cash! The Man, His Music, His World, Stripper, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, The Burning Wall which examined life and dissent in East Germany from 1949-1989, and Toots which was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review in 2007.
Silk spent the beginning of his career working for all the major networks, along with PBS and HBO, working on documentaries from the 1960s to the 1980s. Some of those projects include
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, The Twentieth Century, F.D.R., Childhood, National Geographic Explorer, Defending Our Daughters: The Rights of Women in the World, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home and Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of
Mike Tyson, among others. He also edited several episodes of the Golden Globe award-winning series The Equalizer. Now retired, Silk teaches graduate film students at NYU.
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.
