From ACE press release:

Universal City, CA – American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor veteran editors Joel Cox, A.C.E. and Doug Ibold, A.C.E. with the organization’s prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the 62^nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards on February 18, 2012 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Lifetime Career Achievement Award honors veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding. Clint Eastwood will present to Cox and Dick Wolf will present to Ibold. As previously announced, Patton Oswalt will serve as the evening’s MC and winners of the ACE Eddie Awards will be announced that evening in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.

Nominees were announced January 16^th – A full list of nominees is online at americancinemaeditors.com. 

 JOEL COX, A.C.E.
Joel Cox, A.C.E. has collaborated with Clint Eastwood for more than 35 years and won an Academy Award® for Best Editing for his work on the director’s “Unforgiven.”  He received another Oscar® nomination for his editing work on Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby” and earned a BAFTA Award nomination for his work on “Changeling.”  His recent collaborations with Eastwood include “J. Edgar,” “Hereafter,” “Invictus,” “Gran Torino” and the companion World War II dramas “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima.” 

In addition, Cox was the editor on the Eastwood-directed films “Mystic River,” “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “A Perfect World,” “The Rookie,” “White Hunter Black Heart,” “Bird,” “Heartbreak Ridge,” “Pale Rider” and “Sudden Impact.”

Their relationship began in 1975 when Cox worked as an assistant editor on “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Since then, Cox has worked in the editing room on more than 30 films that have, in some combination, been directed or produced by or starred Eastwood.

Early in his career, Cox worked alongside his mentor, editor Ferris Webster, as a co-editor on such films as “The Enforcer,” “The Gauntlet,” “Every Which Way But Loose,” “Escape from Alcatraz,” “Bronco Billy” and “Honkytonk Man.” His other credits as an editor include “Tightrope,” “The Dead Pool,” “Pink Cadillac” and “The Stars Fell on Henrietta.”

DOUG IBOLD, A.C.E.
Veteran television editor Doub Ibold, A.C.E. has been working as an editor in television for over four decades and has worked on seven television series that produced over 100 episodes each including “Miami Vice,” “Law & Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Magnum P.I.,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and others.  He received an ACE Eddie nomination and an Emmy® nomination for editing Michael Mann’s mini-series “Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel and received two additional ACE Eddie nominations for “Law & Order: SVU” and for editing the television series “Tour of Duty.” 

Ibold got his start in show business at an educational TV station where he did everything from directing, to camera work and audio recording, and everything inbetween.  After quickly moving up the ladder he moved on to work for the CBS affiliate in his home state of Florida.  But in 1969, under the influence of “Easy Rider,” he quit his job and drove around the United States for nine months before landing in Cincinnati, Ohio where he had some filmmaker friends.  They formed a production company called Butterfly Films and made commercials and rock concert films in Ohio and New York.  During this time Butterfly Films was hired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono who needed help completing a film to accompany the release of Lennon’s album Imagine.  Additionally they worked with the Rolling Stones shooting their 1972 tour Exile on Main Street.