American Cinema Editors Say They Feel ‘Cheated, Insulted and Angry’ About Pre-Taped Oscar Segments in New Video
thewrap.comvideo statement on its website on Monday, with a sound track and text but no spoken words, beginning with a quote from director Francis Ford Coppola that reads: “The essence of cinema is editing.”The video continues with “A Message From Cinema Editors to the Academy”:This year’s Academy Awards ceremony left film editors and many other essential artists on the cutting room floor of cinematic history.
We feel cheated, insulted and angry by the way our art was deemed superfluous in favor of bloated performances and spectacle.
ACE calls on production designers, set decorators, costume designers, composers, makeup/hair stylists, short-film creators, sound artists and all creative disciplines to join us in demanding fairness and inclusiveness.
Give us a voice in this process. Let us work together to find a solution that truly honors filmmaking and assure this never happens again.The 1000+-member group added an additional statement on Monday, saying the video statement “reflects the sentiment of ACE’s over 1000+ members who have expressed to the ACE Board of Directors that they felt film editing was not treated with the dignity deserved and that these artists were treated as second-class citizens and denied the celebratory experience that other winners had.
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