A.C.E. presents this year's Best Editing Oscar nominees

Went to a seminar this morning hosted by A.C.E., American Cinema Editors, at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. In attendance were all the film editors nominated for an Academy Award this year. All except James Cameron, whose absence went unexplained.

You can read more about the event here.

We got there early for the 10am event, which was to last two hours, because the lines were almost certainly going to be a bit long. Long was an understatement...it was two blocks in length!! Obviously many more people were there to catch Cameron. Ha ha, they missed out.

It was a pretty interesting and informative panel, punctuated by clips from "The Hurt Locker", "Avatar", "District 9", "Precious", and "Inglorious Bastards". We had to sit all the way in the back of the balcony, which was fine because just about anywhere was a good vantage point. They've been doing these seminars for ten years now and I never knew before now. Was definitely a rare coming together of some of the best of the best.