Tarantino was awarded the ACE Golden Eddie filmmaker of the year award.

The board of American Cinema Editors (ACE) called the Pulp Fiction director "a true visionary" when they announced he was to receive the gong, reports Variety.

The statement added: "His rich and original body of work represents the best that our creative community has to offer."

The NY Times has a big article on GRINDHOUSE up today. I don't have time to read it just yet, but thought I'd just throw the link up.

Ain't It Cool got hold of a new (UPDATE: as clarification, this is unofficial) GRINDHOUSE poster.

Not sure if I've mentioned it here before, but Rob Zombie is making one of the fake trailers for GRINDHOUSE - and its called Werewolf Women of the SS, and courtesy of Menno here's a still from the trailer.

And a description:

This photo is of Sheri's character "Eva Krupp" from the trailer, which will be about 3 1/2 minutes long... This photo shows only one of 3 beautiful costumes that Sheri will be wearing in the short

You can see the entire image here or you can find it in the Sheri Moon Zombie blog.

Anybody wanting some attention from Tarantino or Rodriguez as a filmmaker ought to enter the SWSX Grindhouse Trailer contest.

Filmmakers have a deadline of February 12 to submit their 'grindhouse trailer' (no longer than two minutes in length) to SXSW. The trailer should be made for a fictional feature-film, just like those being made by celebrity directors Eli Roth and Rob Zombie for Grindhouse. From those submissions, Rodriguez will determine the best of the bunch, and it will screen during a special presentation entitled 'Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse 101' on Sunday, March 11. During the presentation, Rodriguez will share stories and footage from the making of the upcoming Dimension Films release.

Thanks to Joe for letting me know that Latino Review has a script review of the Planet Terror portion of GRINDHOUSE up today. Here's the bottom line:

Wow! It is that fucking good. Hence, why I gave it an A+ because it is a complete miracle. There is a structure, there is a character arc, there is some setup/payoff action going on with the dialogue. The writing is super clean and lean and it is a good story that's well told. Nuff said.