Toronto filmmaker Norman Jewison will have to make room on his mantel for another trophy, after having received a special award on Sunday from the Hollywood-based American Cinema Editors.

Jewison, 80, picked up the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, as voted by the organization’s board of directors. The ceremony took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, with Jewison’s old pal Carl Reiner presenting the prize. Veteran funnyman Reiner was a writer on the director’s 1963 feature The Thrill of It All, and starred in 1966’s The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.

‘Norman Jewison is an industry treasure,’ said the ACE board of directors, in a statement. ‘His groundbreaking work and his great appreciation of the craft of editing [are] legendary. We are proud to honor a true master of cinema.’

The mandate of ACE, founded in 1950, is to advance the art and science of the editing profession.

It is not the first time Jewison has been recognized by a craft association. In 2003, he received the American Society of Cinematographers’ Board of Governors Award. His last production was the 2003 Canadian copro The Statement.

Jewison’s films have garnered 12 Academy Awards, including best picture for 1967’s In the Heat of the Night, which also won Hal Ashby the top editing prize. In 1999, the director received the Oscars’ Irving G. Thalberg Award for his contributions to filmmaking. Last year, he was an inaugural inductee into the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame, organized by Playback.