Walter Murch and Kate Amend Receive ACE Awards for Career Achievement – The Hollywood Reporter

Kate Amend, Stephen Lovejoy, and Walter Murch

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Famed three-time Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch – known for films including… Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part 2 And The English Patient — and esteemed documentary editor Kate Amend — who cut the Oscar-winning doc In the arms of strangers And The long road home -He will receive Career Achievement Awards at the 74th American Film Editors’ Eddie Awards.

During the gala on March 3 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, ACE will also honor Stephen Lovejoy with the Heritage Award for his commitment to enhancing the profile of the film editor and his dedication to the organization.

Murch’s legendary 55-year career as a film editor, sound designer, writer and director began in 1969 working on the sound for a Francis Ford Coppola film. People of rain. His credits include American graffiti And The Godfather Part Two, He won his first Oscar for sound Apocalypse now, for which he was also nominated as editor. This was followed by him winning an unprecedented two Oscars for Best Sound and Best Editing for his work The English Patient.

Murch, along with George Lucas and Coppola, was one of the founding members of American Zoetrope. His films include: The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Ghost, The Cold Mountain, The Conversation And thx-1138.

Amend is the recipient of the International Documentary Society’s inaugural Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing and received the 2001 American Film Editors’ Eddie Award for In the arms of strangersthe 2000 Academy Award-winning documentary about the Kindertransport rescue that occurred just before the start of World War II.

She edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated short film tiptoe It was nominated for an Emmy Award Case v 8, An award-winning film at the 2014 Sundance, South by Southwest, and RiverRun Film Festivals. Recent credits include Viva Maestro!, a document about Gustavo Dudamel; HBO channels strengthen Netflix’s The Keepers And Feminists: What were they thinking? Apple+ series Visual: on TV; And Dave Grusin: Not enough time, Which won the Best Editing Award at the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival. She is currently co-directing a documentary about pioneering feminist artist Judy Chicago.

Lovejoy — a former ACE board member and longtime board treasurer — grew up in Southern California and attended Loyola University and the Art Center College of Design. While at Loyola University, he co-produced, wrote and directed its first student film, to examine, which premiered on NBC during the halftime show of the first broadcast of the Super Bowl. He worked for some time as a commercial photographer, and has now been a film editor for over 30 years. He has been nominated for an ACE Eddie Award six times and won twice. He also taught film editing at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

“The tremendous talent on display between Kate, Walter and Steven is amazing and we are honored to highlight their many accomplishments,” said Kevin Tent, President of ACE. “The legacy built by each of these dedicated artists will inspire generations of editors and the filmmaking community at large for years to come, and we are grateful to play a role in amplifying their accomplishments.”