WALL-E Wins Best Comedy/Musical Feature at ACE EDDIE Awards

"Wall-E" was a winner yesterday evening, Sunday, February 15th at the 59th annual ACE Eddie Awards.

Stephen Schaffer won the American Cinema Editors' honors for best-edited feature film comedy or musical for "Wall-E."

Chris Dickens was given the best-edited feature film award for drama for "Slumdog Millionaire" at the gala ceremony at the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Jinx Godfrey earned best-edited documentary for "Man on Wire."

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"Wall-E" is described in press notes as "In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, is sent to earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with Eve".

He woos her during the film by sharing his love of the film Hello Dolly, he is mesmerized by Michael Crawford singing the show's classic songs "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes A Moment". The film opens with Crawford's voice happily singing out to the universe Jerry Herman's rich and emotional melodies.