Steven Spielberg to receive film editors’ Eddie honor

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg, who is nominated for an Academy Award for directing this year’s best picture nominee “Lincoln,” will receive the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 63rd ACE Eddie Awards on Feb. 16 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“Steven Spielberg is a cinematic treasure,” said the ACE Board of Directors in a statement Wednesday morning. “For over four decades he has been moving audiences around the world with his unique, powerful brand of storytelling. Throughout it all, he has worked side by side with the great Michael Kahn, A.C.E., forming a director-editor partnership that has lasted decades. “

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