Rock Paper Scissors' Damion Clayton & Biff Butler Top AICE Awards Finalist List
Finalists for the 2015 AICE Awards have been announced, and work from Editors Damion Clayton and Biff Butler of Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) has topped the list, earning four nominations each. Overall, entries from RPS’s editors topped the company list, combining for 12 nominations in the Alternative Media – Over 90 seconds, Fashion/Beauty, Montage, Music Video, Storytelling, Best of Los Angeles and Best of New York categories.
Entries from Cutters’ editors and artists earned nine Finalist nominations in such categories as Design for Flavor (Cutters Studios’ design arm) as well as in Dialogue / Monologue / Spoken Word, Online Campaign, Spec Spot, Under 50K, Best of Chicago and Best of Detroit.
Entries from The Mill tallied eight nominations, with the bulk of those coming in the Color Grading and Visual Effects categories, which The Mill swept. Two more nominations were earned in the Design category.
Other AICE companies whose artists and editors earned multiple Finalist nominations include Arcade Edit, which earned six nominations in categories for Comedy, Dialogue / Monologue / Spoken Word, Music Video, Online Campaign, Public Service and Spec Spot; Beast, which earned five nominations in the Alternative Media - :90 and Under, Alternative Media - :90 and Over, Comedy, Regional Campaign and Spec Spot categories; and Relish, which earned four total nominations in the categories of Alternative Media - :90 and Under, Public Service, Storytelling and Best of Toronto.
A number of AICE companies saw work from their editors and artists collect three total Finalist nominations. This includes 3008, Big Sky, Cut + Run, Edit Bar, Final Cut, Married to Giants and Misfit.
Finalists in the AICE Awards’ new Original Music category went to work entered by Earhole Studios for Dodge, Music Dealers for Airbnb and Pollen Music Group for Google.
