Captain Phillips won the Eddie last night. So that keeps the Best Editing race open, even though it seems like Gravity is still your favorite. There are reasons to take the Eddie win seriously (Bourne Ultimatum won the Eddie in 2008 en route to an Oscar win; they love films with a lot of editing over ones with technical achievements; Avatar, Inception, Hugo and Life of Pi all lost Best Editing — the big year being 2011 when Hugo, The Artist and The Descendants [which won the Eddie] all lost to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; the Eddie does usually get the Oscar category right), and reasons to not (I mean… Paul Greengrass did get a lifetime achievement award the same night. Plus – Gravity).
Either way, the most important thing to take out of this is — the Editing category is still wide open.
