Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Annual award for best film editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The 2024 recipient: Sean Baker

Country| United States
Presented by| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First award| February 27, 1935; 90 years ago (1935-02-27) (for films released in 1934)
Most recent winner| Sean Baker
Anora (2024)
Website| oscars.org
Thelma Schoonmaker (left) and Columba Powell (right) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Schoonmaker is among the deans of film editing; Powell is the son of Michael Powell, a prominent film director to whom Schoonmaker was married until his death in 1990. Conrad A. Nervig was the inaugural winner, winning for Eskimo (1933). He also won for King Solomon's Mines (1950), alongside Ralph E. Winters.

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.[1][2] Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.[3]

The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.[4] The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.[3] The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the academy. This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.[5]

## History

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This award was first given for films released in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing.

Four film editors have won this award three times in their career:

* Ralph Dawson won for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
* Daniel Mandell won for The Pride of the Yankees (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and The Apartment (1960).
* Michael Kahn won for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
* Thelma Schoonmaker won for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006).

To date, three film directors have won this award: James Cameron, Alfonso Cuarón, and Sean Baker, for the films Titanic, Gravity, and Anora, respectively. Directors David Lean, Steve James, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (under the alias "Roderick Jaynes"), Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias "John Mac McMurphy"), and Chloé Zhao have been nominated for editing their own films as well, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice. Also, Best Film Editing winner, Walter Murch, although known for film editing and sound, directed the Oscar nominated Return to Oz, and is, to date, the only person with Oscars for both sound engineering and film editing—winning them in the same year for his work on The English Patient.

Additionally, former film editors Robert Wise (nominee for Citizen Kane), Hal Ashby (winner for In the Heat of the Night), and Francis D. Lyon (co-winner for Body and Soul) became directors whose films were subsequently nominated for Best Film Editing themselves. These films include Somebody Up There Likes Me, I Want to Live!, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, and The Andromeda Strain for Wise; Bound for Glory and Coming Home for Ashby; and Crazylegs for Lyon.

## Superlatives

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Category  | Name  | Superlative  | Year  | Notes

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Most awards  | Thelma Schoonmaker | 3 awards[6] | 2006  | Awards resulted from 9 nominations
Michael Kahn | 1998  | Awards resulted from 8 nominations
Daniel Mandell | 1960  | Awards resulted from 5 nominations
Ralph Dawson | 1938  | Awards resulted from 4 nominations
Most nominations  | Thelma Schoonmaker | 9 nominations  | 2023  | Nominations resulted in 3 awards[6]
Most nominations without a win  | Frederic Knudtson | 6 nominations  | 1963  | Nominations resulted in no awards
Gerry Hambling | 1996
Oldest winner  | Michael Kahn | Age 68  | 1998  |
Oldest nominee  | Thelma Schoonmaker | Age 84  | 2023  |
Youngest winner  | David Brenner | Age 27  | 1989  | Co-edited with Joe Hutshing[7]

Superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[8]

## Winners and nominees

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These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[9]

indicates the winner

### 1930s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1934
(7th) | Eskimo | Conrad A. Nervig
Cleopatra | Anne Bauchens
One Night of Love | Gene Milford
1935
(8th) | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Ralph Dawson
David Copperfield | Robert J. Kern
The Informer | George Hively
Les Misérables | Barbara McLean
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Ellsworth Hoagland
Mutiny on the Bounty | Margaret Booth
1936
(9th) | Anthony Adverse | Ralph Dawson
Come and Get It | Edward Curtiss
The Great Ziegfeld | William S. Gray
Lloyd's of London | Barbara McLean
A Tale of Two Cities | Conrad A. Nervig
Theodora Goes Wild | Otto Meyer
1937
(10th) | Lost Horizon | Gene Havlick and Gene Milford
The Awful Truth | Al Clark
Captains Courageous | Elmo Veron
The Good Earth | Basil Wrangell
One Hundred Men and a Girl | Bernard W. Burton
1938
(11th) | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Ralph Dawson
Alexander's Ragtime Band | Barbara McLean
The Great Waltz | Tom Held
Test Pilot
You Can't Take It with You | Gene Havlick
1939
(12th) | Gone with the Wind | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Charles Frend
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Gene Havlick and Al Clark
The Rains Came | Barbara McLean
Stagecoach | Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer

### 1940s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1940
(13th) | North West Mounted Police | Anne Bauchens
The Grapes of Wrath | Robert L. Simpson
The Letter | Warren Low
The Long Voyage Home | Sherman Todd
Rebecca | Hal C. Kern
1941
(14th)
Sergeant York | William Holmes
Citizen Kane | Robert Wise
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Harold F. Kress
How Green Was My Valley | James B. Clark
The Little Foxes | Daniel Mandell
1942
(15th)
The Pride of the Yankees | Daniel Mandell
Mrs. Miniver | Harold F. Kress
The Talk of the Town | Otto Meyer
This Above All | Walter Thompson
Yankee Doodle Dandy | George Amy
1943
(16th)
Air Force | George Amy
Casablanca | Owen Marks
Five Graves to Cairo | Doane Harrison
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Sherman Todd and John F. Link Sr.
The Song of Bernadette | Barbara McLean
1944
(17th)
Wilson | Barbara McLean
Going My Way | LeRoy Stone
Janie | Owen Marks
None but the Lonely Heart | Roland Gross
Since You Went Away | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
1945
(18th)
National Velvet | Robert J. Kern
The Bells of St. Mary's | Harry Marker
The Lost Weekend | Doane Harrison
Objective, Burma! | George Amy
A Song to Remember | Charles Nelson
1946
(19th)
The Best Years of Our Lives | Daniel Mandell
It's a Wonderful Life | William Hornbeck
The Jolson Story | William A. Lyon
The Killers | Arthur Hilton
The Yearling | Harold F. Kress
1947
(20th)
Body and Soul | Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish
The Bishop's Wife | Monica Collingwood
Gentleman's Agreement | Harmon Jones
Green Dolphin Street | George White
Odd Man Out | Fergus McDonell
1948
(21st)
The Naked City | Paul Weatherwax
Joan of Arc | Frank Sullivan
Johnny Belinda | David Weisbart
Red River | Christian Nyby
The Red Shoes | Reginald Mills
1949
(22nd)
Champion | Harry W. Gerstad
All the King's Men | Robert Parrish and Al Clark
Battleground | John Dunning
Sands of Iwo Jima | Richard L. Van Enger
The Window | Frederic Knudtson

### 1950s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1950
(23rd) | King Solomon's Mines | Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig
All About Eve | Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun | James E. Newcom
Sunset Boulevard | Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison
The Third Man | Oswald Hafenrichter
1951
(24th)
A Place in the Sun | William Hornbeck
An American in Paris | Adrienne Fazan
Decision Before Dawn | Dorothy Spencer
Quo Vadis | Ralph E. Winters
The Well | Chester Schaeffer
1952
(25th)
High Noon | Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad
Come Back, Little Sheba | Warren Low
Flat Top | William Austin
The Greatest Show on Earth | Anne Bauchens
Moulin Rouge | Ralph Kemplen
1953
(26th)
From Here to Eternity | William A. Lyon
Crazylegs | Irvine "Cotton" Warburton
The Moon Is Blue | Otto Ludwig
Roman Holiday | Robert Swink
The War of the Worlds | Everett Douglas
1954
(27th)
On the Waterfront | Gene Milford
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Elmo Williams
The Caine Mutiny | William A. Lyon and Henry Batista
The High and the Mighty | Ralph Dawson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Ralph E. Winters
1955
(28th)
Picnic | Charles Nelson and William A. Lyon
Blackboard Jungle | Ferris Webster
The Bridges at Toko-Ri | Alma Macrorie
Oklahoma! | Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler
The Rose Tattoo | Warren Low
1956
(29th)
Around the World in 80 Days | Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax
The Brave One | Merrill G. White
Giant | William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan
Somebody Up There Likes Me | Albert Akst
The Ten Commandments | Anne Bauchens
1957
(30th)
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Peter Taylor
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Warren Low
Pal Joey | Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms
Sayonara | Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson
Witness for the Prosecution | Daniel Mandell
1958
(31st)
Gigi | Adrienne Fazan
Auntie Mame | William H. Ziegler
Cowboy | William A. Lyon and Al Clark
The Defiant Ones | Frederic Knudtson
I Want to Live! | William Hornbeck
1959
(32nd)
Ben-Hur | Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning
Anatomy of a Murder | Louis R. Loeffler
North by Northwest | George Tomasini
The Nun's Story | Walter Thompson
On the Beach | Frederic Knudtson

### 1960s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1960
(33rd) | The Apartment | Daniel Mandell
The Alamo | Stuart Gilmore
Inherit the Wind | Frederic Knudtson
Pepe | Viola Lawrence and Al Clark
Spartacus | Robert Lawrence
1961
(34th)
West Side Story | Thomas Stanford
Fanny | William H. Reynolds
The Guns of Navarone | Alan Osbiston
Judgment at Nuremberg | Frederic Knudtson
The Parent Trap | Philip W. Anderson
1962
(35th)
Lawrence of Arabia | Anne V. Coates
The Longest Day | Samuel E. Beetley
The Manchurian Candidate | Ferris Webster
The Music Man | William H. Ziegler
Mutiny on the Bounty | John McSweeney Jr.
1963
(36th)
How the West Was Won | Harold F. Kress
The Cardinal | Louis R. Loeffler
Cleopatra | Dorothy Spencer
The Great Escape | Ferris Webster
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Frederic Knudtson (posthumously), Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr.
1964
(37th)
Mary Poppins | Cotton Warburton
Becket | Anne V. Coates
Father Goose | Ted J. Kent
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Michael Luciano
My Fair Lady | William H. Ziegler
1965
(38th)
The Sound of Music | William H. Reynolds
Cat Ballou | Charles Nelson
Doctor Zhivago | Norman Savage
The Flight of the Phoenix | Michael Luciano
The Great Race | Ralph E. Winters
1966
(39th)
Grand Prix | Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo
Fantastic Voyage | William B. Murphy
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Hal Ashby and J. Terry Williams
The Sand Pebbles | William H. Reynolds
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Sam O'Steen
1967
(40th)
In the Heat of the Night | Hal Ashby
Beach Red | Frank P. Keller
The Dirty Dozen | Michael Luciano
Doctor Dolittle | Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Robert C. Jones
1968
(41st)
Bullitt | Frank P. Keller
Funny Girl | Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe and William Sands
The Odd Couple | Frank Bracht
Oliver! | Ralph Kemplen
Wild in the Streets | Fred R. Feitshans Jr. and Eve Newman
1969
(42nd)
Z | Françoise Bonnot
Hello, Dolly! | William H. Reynolds
Midnight Cowboy | Hugh A. Robertson
The Secret of Santa Vittoria | William A. Lyon and Earle Herdan
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Fredric Steinkamp

### 1970s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1970
(43rd) | Patton | Hugh S. Fowler
Airport | Stuart Gilmore
M*A*S*H | Danford B. Greene
Tora! Tora! Tora! | James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring and Inoue Chikaya
Woodstock | Thelma Schoonmaker
1971
(44th)
The French Connection | Gerald B. Greenberg
The Andromeda Strain | Stuart Gilmore (posthumously) and John W. Holmes
A Clockwork Orange | Bill Butler
Kotch | Ralph E. Winters
Summer of '42 | Folmar Blangsted
1972
(45th)
Cabaret | David Bretherton
Deliverance | Tom Priestley
The Godfather | William H. Reynolds and Peter Zinner
The Hot Rock | Frank P. Keller and Fred W. Berger
The Poseidon Adventure | Harold F. Kress
1973
(46th)
The Sting | William H. Reynolds
American Graffiti | Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas
The Day of the Jackal | Ralph Kemplen
The Exorcist | Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud S. Smith, Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay
Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Frank P. Keller and James Galloway
1974
(47th)
The Towering Inferno | Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress
Blazing Saddles | John C. Howard and Danford B. Greene
Chinatown | Sam O'Steen
Earthquake | Dorothy Spencer
The Longest Yard | Michael Luciano
1975
(48th)
Jaws | Verna Fields
Dog Day Afternoon | Dede Allen
The Man Who Would Be King | Russell Lloyd
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn
Three Days of the Condor | Fredric Steinkamp and Don Guidice
1976
(49th)
Rocky | Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad
All the President's Men | Robert L. Wolfe
Bound for Glory | Robert C. Jones and Pembroke J. Herring
Network | Alan Heim
Two-Minute Warning | Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann
1977
(50th)
Star Wars | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Michael Kahn
Julia | Walter Murch
Smokey and the Bandit | Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross
The Turning Point | William H. Reynolds
1978
(51st)
The Deer Hunter | Peter Zinner
The Boys from Brazil | Robert E. Swink
Coming Home | Don Zimmerman
Midnight Express | Gerry Hambling
Superman | Stuart Baird
1979
(52nd)
All That Jazz | Alan Heim
Apocalypse Now | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman
The Black Stallion | Robert Dalva
Kramer vs. Kramer | Gerald B. Greenberg
The Rose | Robert L. Wolfe and Carroll Timothy O'Meara

### 1980s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1980
(53rd) | Raging Bull | Thelma Schoonmaker
Coal Miner's Daughter | Arthur Schmidt
The Competition | David Blewitt
The Elephant Man | Anne V. Coates
Fame | Gerry Hambling
1981
(54th)
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Michael Kahn
Chariots of Fire | Terry Rawlings
The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Bloom
On Golden Pond | Robert L. Wolfe (posthumously)
Reds | Dede Allen and Craig McKay
1982
(55th)
Gandhi | John Bloom
Das Boot | Hannes Nikel
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Carol Littleton
An Officer and a Gentleman | Peter Zinner
Tootsie | Fredric Steinkamp and William Steinkamp
1983
(56th)
The Right Stuff | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf
Blue Thunder | Frank Morriss and Edward M. Abroms
Flashdance | Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery
Silkwood | Sam O'Steen
Terms of Endearment | Richard Marks
1984
(57th)
The Killing Fields | Jim Clark
Amadeus | Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler
The Cotton Club | Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett
A Passage to India | David Lean
Romancing the Stone | Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss
1985
(58th)
Witness | Thom Noble
A Chorus Line | John Bloom
Out of Africa | Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring and Sheldon Kahn
Prizzi's Honor | Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr
Runaway Train | Henry Richardson
1986
(59th)
Platoon | Claire Simpson
Aliens | Ray Lovejoy
Hannah and Her Sisters | Susan E. Morse
The Mission | Jim Clark
Top Gun | Billy Weber and Chris Lebenzon
1987
(60th)
The Last Emperor | Gabriella Cristiani
Broadcast News | Richard Marks
Empire of the Sun | Michael Kahn
Fatal Attraction | Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger
RoboCop | Frank J. Urioste
1988
(61st)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Arthur Schmidt
Die Hard | Frank J. Urioste and John F. Link
Gorillas in the Mist | Stuart Baird
Mississippi Burning | Gerry Hambling
Rain Man | Stu Linder
1989
(62nd)
Born on the Fourth of July | David Brenner and Joe Hutshing
The Bear | Noëlle Boisson
Driving Miss Daisy | Mark Warner
The Fabulous Baker Boys | William Steinkamp
Glory | Steven Rosenblum

### 1990s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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1990
(63rd) | Dances With Wolves | Neil Travis
Ghost | Walter Murch
The Godfather Part III | Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman and Walter Murch
Goodfellas | Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hunt for Red October | Dennis Virkler and John Wright
1991
(64th)
JFK | Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia
The Commitments | Gerry Hambling
The Silence of the Lambs | Craig McKay
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris
Thelma & Louise | Thom Noble
1992
(65th)
Unforgiven | Joel Cox
Basic Instinct | Frank J. Urioste
The Crying Game | Kant Pan
A Few Good Men | Robert Leighton
The Player | Geraldine Peroni
1993
(66th)
Schindler's List | Michael Kahn
The Fugitive | Dennis Virkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brochu, Richard Nord and Dov Hoenig
In the Line of Fire | Anne V. Coates
In the Name of the Father | Gerry Hambling
The Piano | Veronika Jenet
1994
(67th)
Forrest Gump | Arthur Schmidt
Hoop Dreams | Frederick Marx, Steve James and William Haugse
Pulp Fiction | Sally Menke
The Shawshank Redemption | Richard Francis-Bruce
Speed | John Wright
1995
(68th)
Apollo 13 | Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley
Babe | Marcus D'Arcy and Jay Friedkin
Braveheart | Steven Rosenblum
Crimson Tide | Chris Lebenzon
Seven | Richard Francis-Bruce
1996
(69th)
The English Patient | Walter Murch
Evita | Gerry Hambling
Fargo | Roderick Jaynes
Jerry Maguire | Joe Hutshing
Shine | Pip Karmel
1997
(70th)
Titanic | Conrad Buff, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris
Air Force One | Richard Francis-Bruce
As Good as It Gets | Richard Marks
Good Will Hunting | Pietro Scalia
L.A. Confidential | Peter Honess
1998
(71st)
Saving Private Ryan | Michael Kahn
Life Is Beautiful | Simona Paggi
Out of Sight | Anne V. Coates
Shakespeare in Love | David Gamble
The Thin Red Line | Billy Weber, Leslie Jones and Saar Klein
1999
(72nd)
The Matrix | Zach Staenberg
American Beauty | Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury
The Cider House Rules | Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider | William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense | Andrew Mondshein

### 2000s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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2000
(73rd) | Traffic | Stephen Mirrione
Almost Famous | Joe Hutshing and Saar Klein
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tim Squyres
Gladiator | Pietro Scalia
Wonder Boys | Dede Allen
2001
(74th)
Black Hawk Down | Pietro Scalia
A Beautiful Mind | Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | John Gilbert
Memento | Dody Dorn
Moulin Rouge! | Jill Bilcock
2002
(75th)
Chicago | Martin Walsh
Gangs of New York | Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hours | Peter Boyle
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Michael Horton
The Pianist | Hervé de Luze
2003
(76th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Jamie Selkirk
City of God | Daniel Rezende
Cold Mountain | Walter Murch
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Lee Smith
Seabiscuit | William Goldenberg
2004
(77th)
The Aviator | Thelma Schoonmaker
Collateral | Jim Miller and Paul Rubell
Finding Neverland | Matt Chessé
Million Dollar Baby | Joel Cox
Ray | Paul Hirsch
2005
(78th)
Crash | Hughes Winborne
Cinderella Man | Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
The Constant Gardener | Claire Simpson
Munich | Michael Kahn
Walk the Line | Michael McCusker
2006
(79th)
The Departed | Thelma Schoonmaker
Babel | Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione
Blood Diamond | Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez
United 93 | Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse
2007
(80th)
The Bourne Ultimatum | Christopher Rouse
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Juliette Welfling
Into the Wild | Jay Cassidy
No Country for Old Men | Roderick Jaynes
There Will Be Blood | Dylan Tichenor
2008
(81st)
Slumdog Millionaire | Chris Dickens
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
The Dark Knight | Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon | Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
Milk | Elliot Graham
2009
(82nd)
The Hurt Locker | Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Avatar | Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron
District 9 | Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds | Sally Menke
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Joe Klotz

### 2010s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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2010
(83rd) | The Social Network | Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
127 Hours | Jon Harris
Black Swan | Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter | Pamela Martin
The King's Speech | Tariq Anwar
2011
(84th)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
The Artist | Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants | Kevin Tent
Hugo | Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball | Christopher Tellefsen
2012
(85th)
Argo | William Goldenberg
Life of Pi | Tim Squyres
Lincoln | Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook | Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty | Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
2013
(86th)
Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave | Joe Walker
American Hustle | Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips | Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club | John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
2014
(87th)
Whiplash | Tom Cross
American Sniper | Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Boyhood | Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game | William Goldenberg
2015
(88th)
Mad Max: Fury Road | Margaret Sixel
The Big Short | Hank Corwin
The Revenant | Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight | Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
2016
(89th)
[10]
Hacksaw Ridge | John Gilbert
Arrival | Joe Walker
Hell or High Water | Jake Roberts
La La Land | Tom Cross
Moonlight | Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
2017
(90th)
[11]
Dunkirk | Lee Smith
Baby Driver | Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
I, Tonya | Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water | Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jon Gregory
2018
(91st)
[12]
Bohemian Rhapsody | John Ottman
BlacKkKlansman | Barry Alexander Brown
The Favourite | Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Green Book | Patrick J. Don Vito
Vice | Hank Corwin
2019
(92nd)
Ford v Ferrari | Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland
The Irishman | Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit | Tom Eagles
Joker | Jeff Groth
Parasite | Yang Jin-mo

### 2020s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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2020/21
(93rd) | Sound of Metal | Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
The Father | Yorgos Lamprinos
Nomadland | Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman | Frédéric Thoraval
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Alan Baumgarten
2021
(94th) | Dune | Joe Walker
Don't Look Up | Hank Corwin
King Richard | Pamela Martin
The Power of the Dog | Peter Sciberras
tick, tick... BOOM! | Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
2022
(95th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Paul Rogers
The Banshees of Inisherin | Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
Elvis | Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Tár | Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick | Eddie Hamilton
2023
(96th) | Oppenheimer | Jennifer Lame
Anatomy of a Fall | Laurent Sénéchal
The Holdovers | Kevin Tent
Killers of the Flower Moon | Thelma Schoonmaker
Poor Things | Yorgos Mavropsaridis
2024
(97th) | Anora | Sean Baker
The Brutalist | Dávid Jancsó
Conclave | Nick Emerson
Emilia Pérez | Juliette Welfling
Wicked | Myron Kerstein

## Shortlisted finalists

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Finalists for Best Film Editing were selected by branch members, who voted for ten finalists which were screened to determine the five nominees.[13]

Year  | Finalists  | Ref

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1967  | Bonnie and Clyde, Camelot, The Graduate, Sofi, Thoroughly Modern Millie | [14]
1968  | The Fixer, The Lion in Winter, Rachel, Rachel, Star!, The Thomas Crown Affair | [15]
1969  | Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cactus Flower, Gaily, Gaily, Marooned | [16]
1970  | Catch-22, Five Easy Pieces, The Great White Hope, A Man Called Horse, Ryan's Daughter | [17]
1971  | Carnal Knowledge, Fiddler on the Roof, Mary, Queen of Scots, Nicholas and Alexandra, Sunday Bloody Sunday | [18]
1972  | Avanti!, Ben, Butterflies Are Free, Man of La Mancha, 1776 | [19]
1973  | The Iceman Cometh, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Paper Chase, Paper Moon, Papillon | [20]
1974  | For Pete's Sake, The Front Page, The Godfather Part II, Hearts and Minds, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | [21]
1975  | Funny Lady, The Hindenburg, The Other Side of the Mountain, Rollerball, The Sunshine Boys | [22]
1976  | King Kong, Midway, The Omen, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Silver Streak | [23]
1977  | Black Sunday, The Deep, The Goodbye Girl, Islands in the Stream, Saturday Night Fever | [24]
1978  | The Brink's Job, Foul Play, Grease, Heaven Can Wait, Hooper | [25]
1979  | The China Syndrome, The Electric Horseman, A Little Romance, Norma Rae, 10 | [13]

## Multiple wins and nominations

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The following editors have received multiple nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. This list is sorted by the number of total awards won (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

* 3: Thelma Schoonmaker (9)
* 3: Michael Kahn (8)
* 3: Daniel Mandell (5)
* 3: Ralph Dawson (4)
* 2: William H. Reynolds (7)
* 2: Harold F. Kress (6)
* 2: William A. Lyon (6)
* 2: Joe Hutshing (4)
* 2: Pietro Scalia (4)
* 2: Kirk Baxter (3)
* 2: Gene Milford (3)
* 2: Conrad A. Nervig (3)
* 2: Arthur Schmidt (3)
* 2: Angus Wall (3)
* 2: Harry W. Gerstad (2)
* 2: Paul Weatherwax (2)
* 1: Barbara McLean (7)
* 1: Walter Murch (6)
* 1: Anne V. Coates (5)
* 1: William Goldenberg (5)
* 1: Fredric Steinkamp (5)
* 1: Ralph E. Winters (5)
* 1: Anne Bauchens (4)
* 1: Daniel P. Hanley (4)
* 1: Mike Hill (4)
* 1: William Hornbeck (4)
* 1: Frank P. Keller (4)
* 1: James E. Newcom (4)
* 1: George Amy (3)
* 1: John Bloom (3)

* 1: Joel Cox (3)
* 1: Lisa Fruchtman (3)
* 1: Gerald B. Greenberg (3)
* 1: Gene Havlick (3)
* 1: Hal C. Kern (3)
* 1: Stephen Mirrione (3)
* 1: Charles Nelson (3)
* 1: Christopher Rouse (3)
* 1: Lee Smith (3)
* 1: Joe Walker (3)
* 1: Peter Zinner (3)
* 1: Hal Ashby (2)
* 1: Conrad Buff (2)
* 1: James Cameron (2)
* 1: Richard Chew (2)
* 1: Jim Clark (2)
* 1: Tom Cross (2)
* 1: Alfonso Cuarón (2)
* 1: Adrienne Fazan (2)
* 1: Verna Fields (2)
* 1: John Gilbert (2)
* 1: Richard A. Harris (2)
* 1: Alan Heim (2)
* 1: Paul Hirsch (2)
* 1: Robert J. Kern (2)
* 1: Marcia Lucas (2)
* 1: Michael McCusker (2)
* 1: Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2)
* 1: Thom Noble (2)
* 1: Robert Parrish (2)
* 1: Gene Ruggiero (2)

* 1: Claire Simpson (2)
* 1: Cotton Warburton (2)
* 1: Elmo Williams (2)
* 0: Gerry Hambling (6)
* 0: Frederic Knudtson (6)
* 0: Al Clark (5)
* 0: Warren Low (4)
* 0: Michael Luciano (4)
* 0: Richard Marks (4)
* 0: Dorothy Spencer (4)
* 0: Dede Allen (3)
* 0: Philip W. Anderson (3)
* 0: Jay Cassidy (3)
* 0: Hank Corwin (3)
* 0: Richard Francis-Bruce (3)
* 0: Stuart Gilmore (3)
* 0: Doane Harrison (3)
* 0: Pembroke J. Herring (3)
* 0: Robert C. Jones (3)
* 0: Ralph Kemplen (3)
* 0: Sam O'Steen (3)
* 0: Steven Rosenblum (3)
* 0: William Steinkamp (3)
* 0: Frank J. Urioste (3)
* 0: Ferris Webster (3)
* 0: Robert L. Wolfe (3)
* 0: William H. Ziegler (3)
* 0: Tariq Anwar (2)
* 0: Stuart Baird (2)
* 0: Alan Baumgarten (2)
* 0: Samuel E. Beetley (2)
* 0: Danford B. Greene (2)

* 0: Walter Hannemann (2)
* 0: Roderick Jaynes (2)
* 0: Sheldon Kahn (2)
* 0: Myron Kerstein (2)
* 0: Saar Klein (2)
* 0: Viola Lawrence (2)
* 0: Chris Lebenzon (2)
* 0: Louis R. Loeffler (2)
* 0: Barry Malkin (2)
* 0: Owen Marks (2)
* 0: Pamela Martin (2)
* 0: Yorgos Mavropsaridis (2)
* 0: Craig McKay (2)
* 0: Sally Menke (2)
* 0: Otto Meyer (2)
* 0: Frank Morriss (2)
* 0: Eve Newman (2)
* 0: Paul Rubell (2)
* 0: Arthur P. Schmidt (2)
* 0: Bud S. Smith (2)
* 0: Tim Squyres (2)
* 0: Crispin Struthers (2)
* 0: Robert Swink (2)
* 0: Kevin Tent (2)
* 0: Walter A. Thompson (2)
* 0: Dylan Tichenor (2)
* 0: Sherman Todd (2)
* 0: Dennis Virkler (2)
* 0: Billy Weber (2)
* 0: Andrew Weisblum (2)
* 0: Juliette Welfling (2)
* 0: John Wright (2)

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## See also

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* BAFTA Award for Best Editing
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing
* American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
* American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
* List of Academy Award–nominated films

## References

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1. ^ Harris, Mark (January 6, 2008). "Which Editing is a Cut Above?". The New York Times. In 1980, Ordinary People won as Best Picture, but its editor Jeff Kanew was not nominated for Best Editing.
2. ^ Dimond, Anna (December 13, 2013). "Why Editing Nominations Predict the Best Picture Oscar". Variety. Interviews with prominent film editors exploring the correlation between the Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and for Best Film.
3. ^ a b "Rule Thirteen—Special Rules for the Film Editing Award". 79th Academy Awards Rules for Distinguished Achievements in 2006. Archived from the original on July 18, 2010. Rules are published for each year's awards. In earlier years, different rules applied; thus Robert Parrish was nominated for All the King's Men (1949) with a credit as an "editorial consultant".
4. ^ "Academy Branches". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. February 2012. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012.
5. ^ "Orange British Academy Film Awards: Rules and Guidelines 2008-2009" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2011.
6. ^ a b "FILM EDITING FACTS: MOST NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS" (PDF). Oscars.org. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
7. ^ Tibbs, Ros (February 8, 2023). "The youngest Oscar winner in every Academy Award category". Far Out. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
8. ^ "Film Editing Facts" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 13, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
9. ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 20, 2022. Select all "film editing" awards.
10. ^ "Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. February 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
11. ^ Hipes, Patrick (January 23, 2018). "Oscar Nominations: 'The Shape Of Water' Leads Way With 13". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
12. ^ Hipes, Patrick (January 22, 2019). "Oscar Nominations – The Complete List Of Noms". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
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