2025 ACE Eddie Awards postponed due to Los Angeles fires

The 2025 ACE Eddie Awards is the latest Hollywood event to be postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

The 75th annual Best Editing in Film, Television and Documentary Awards was scheduled to take place on Saturday. American Film Editors (ACE) said late Monday that new dates will be announced soon.

The ACE Eddie Awards are held at UCLA's Royce Hall. As Angelenos continue to battle the ongoing wildfires, the show will transform from a black-tie red carpet event into a “whatever you want” community-building fundraiser, with a portion of ticket sales donated to Los Angeles wildfire relief.

The annual Nominees Reception, a private event for nominees originally scheduled for Thursday, will also be rescheduled.

“Due to ongoing concerns about the safety of the Los Angeles community, we have made arrangements with UCLA and Royce Hall to postpone the 75th Annual ACE Eddie Awards Ceremony,” the organization said in a statement. “ACE Board of Directors It was agreed that a later date (to be determined) would be the smarter and safer course of action for everyone. … This is unprecedented and we are working hard to keep things as fluid as possible once we have the details, and when the event finally occurs, we will need to be more united than ever. Thank you for your understanding and it goes without saying that our thoughts are with all our members and the entire industry affected by the fire.”

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“We look forward to recognizing the outstanding work of our winners and nominees and coming together as a community to support each other,” said ACE President Sabrina Plisco. “At the same time, we are keeping everyone affected by these fires in our thoughts.”

Award announcements continue to be delayed as wildfires continue. Earlier on Monday, the Writers Guild Awards postponed its ceremony again, and the Producers Guild Awards postponed their ceremony for a second time on Sunday. Also earlier Monday, the Academy Awards announced it was extending its voting window to January 19 and delaying nomination announcements for a second time, with this year's nominees set to be announced on January 23.

As awards shows try to figure out how to respond to this rapidly changing moment of fire, THRIn an op-ed, Academy Awards senior editor Steven Zeitchik urged the Academy to overhaul the 2025 Academy Awards into “a massive, comprehensive arts-based consciousness-raising event” to prepare for the moment.

“The Farm Aid Oscars will be an opportunity to take one of the biggest television platforms in the country and use it for good-natured and old-fashioned spectacle that’s as tragic as it is uplifting, as exciting as it is Inspiring,” he wrote on Monday.

The Grammys have announced that they will be adding a charity component to their February 2 show, but have not yet revealed how.