Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Thelma Schoonmaker and Columba Powell at the
Cannes Film Festival (2009). 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.
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 presently 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
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:
To date, two film directors have won this award, James Cameron and Alfonso Cuarón for the films Titanic and Gravity respectively. Directors David Lean, Joel and Ethan Coen (under the alias Roderick Jaynes), and Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias John Mac McMurphy) have been nominated for editing their own films, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice. Additionally, 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.
Superlatives
Superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[6]
Nominations and awards
These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.[7]
indicates the winner
1930s
1940s
1950s
| Year |
Film |
Editor(s) |
1950
(23rd) |
| King Solomon's Mines |
Conrad A. Nervig |
| All About Eve |
Barbara McLean |
| Annie Get Your Gun |
James E. Newcom |
| Sunset Boulevard |
Arthur P. Schmidt, 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, Harry 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 |
| The Caine Mutiny |
William A. Lyon, Henry Batista |
| The High and the Mighty |
Ralph Dawson |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
Ralph E. Winters |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Elmo Williams |
1955
(28th) |
| Picnic |
Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon |
| Blackboard Jungle |
Ferris Webster |
| The Bridges at Toko-Ri |
Alma Macrorie |
| Oklahoma! |
Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler |
| The Rose Tattoo |
Warren Low |
1956
(29th) |
| Around the World in 80 Days |
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax |
| The Brave One |
Merrill G. White |
| Giant |
William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, 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, Jerome Thoms |
| Sayonara |
Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson |
| Witness for the Prosecution |
Daniel Mandell |
1958
(31st) |
| Gigi |
Adrienne Fazan |
| Auntie Mame |
William H. Ziegler |
| Cowboy |
William A. Lyon, Al Clark |
| The Defiant Ones |
Frederic Knudtson |
| I Want to Live! |
William Hornbeck |
1959
(32nd) |
| Ben-Hur |
Ralph E. Winters, 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
| Year |
Film |
Editor(s) |
1960
(33rd) |
| The Apartment |
Daniel Mandell |
| The Alamo |
Stuart Gilmore |
| Inherit the Wind |
Frederic Knudtson |
| Pepe |
Viola Lawrence, 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
(36th) |
| 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 (posthumous nomination), Robert C. Jones, 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, Frank Santillo |
| Fantastic Voyage |
William B. Murphy |
| The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
Hal Ashby, 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, Marjorie Fowler |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Robert C. Jones |
1968
(41st) |
| Bullitt |
Frank P. Keller |
| Funny Girl |
Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands |
| The Odd Couple |
Frank Bracht |
| Oliver! |
Ralph Kemplen |
| Wild in the Streets |
Fred Feitshans, 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, Earle Herdan |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Fredric Steinkamp |
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1970s
| Year |
Film |
Editor(s) |
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, Inoue Chikaya |
| Woodstock |
Thelma Schoonmaker |
1971
(44th) |
| The French Connection |
Gerald B. Greenberg |
| A Clockwork Orange |
Bill Butler |
| The Andromeda Strain |
Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination), John W. Holmes |
| Kotch |
Ralph E. Winters |
| Summer of '42 |
Folmar Blangsted |
1972
(45th) |
| Cabaret |
David Bretherton |
| Deliverance |
Tom Priestley |
| The Godfather |
William H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner |
| The Hot Rock |
Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger |
| The Poseidon Adventure |
Harold F. Kress |
1973
(46th) |
| The Sting |
William H. Reynolds |
| American Graffiti |
Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas |
| The Day of the Jackal |
Ralph Kemplen |
| The Exorcist |
Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
Frank P. Keller, James Galloway |
1974
(47th) |
| The Towering Inferno |
Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress |
| Blazing Saddles |
John C. Howard, 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, Sheldon Kahn |
| Three Days of the Condor |
Fredric Steinkamp, Don Guidice |
1976
(49th) |
| Rocky |
Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad |
| All the President's Men |
Robert L. Wolfe |
| Bound for Glory |
Robert C. Jones, Pembroke J. Herring |
| Network |
Alan Heim |
| Two-Minute Warning |
Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann |
1977
(50th) |
| Star Wars |
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Michael Kahn |
| Julia |
Walter Murch |
| Smokey and the Bandit |
Walter Hannemann, 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, Lisa Fruchtman |
| The Black Stallion |
Robert Dalva |
| Kramer vs. Kramer |
Gerald B. Greenberg |
| The Rose |
Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O'Meara |
|
1980s
| Year |
Film |
Editor(s) |
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 (posthumous nomination) |
| Reds |
Dede Allen, 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, William Steinkamp |
1983
(56th) |
| The Right Stuff |
Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf |
| Blue Thunder |
Frank Morriss, Edward Abroms |
| Flashdance |
Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery |
| Silkwood |
Sam O'Steen |
| Terms of Endearment |
Richard Marks |
1984
(57th) |
| The Killing Fields |
Jim Clark |
| Amadeus |
Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler |
| The Cotton Club |
Barry Malkin, Robert Q. Lovett |
| A Passage to India |
David Lean |
| Romancing the Stone |
Donn Cambern, Frank Morriss |
1985
(58th) |
| Witness |
Thom Noble |
| A Chorus Line |
John Bloom |
| Out of Africa |
Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn |
| Prizzi's Honor |
Rudi Fehr, 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, Chris Lebenzon |
1987
(60th) |
| The Last Emperor |
Gabriella Cristiani |
| Broadcast News |
Richard Marks |
| Empire of the Sun |
Michael Kahn |
| Fatal Attraction |
Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger |
| RoboCop |
Frank J. Urioste |
1988
(61st) |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Arthur Schmidt |
| Die Hard |
Frank J. Urioste, 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, Joe Hutshing |
| Driving Miss Daisy |
Mark Warner |
| The Fabulous Baker Boys |
William Steinkamp |
| Glory |
Steven Rosenblum |
| The Bear |
Noëlle Boisson |
|
1990s
| Year |
Film |
Editor(s) |
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 |
| The Cider House Rules |
Lisa Zeno Churgin |
| The Insider |
William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, and David Rosenbloom |
| The Sixth Sense |
Andrew Mondshein |
2000s
2010s
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