# Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first presented in 2013, with American editor Nat Sanders being the first recipient of the award for his work in Short Term 12.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2013 | Short Term 12 | Nat Sanders |
| 2013 | Upstream Color | Shane Carruth and David Lowery |
| 2013 | Museum Hours | Jem Cohen and Marc Vives |
| 2013 | Frances Ha | Jennifer Lame |
| 2013 | Una noche | Cindy Lee |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Tom Cross |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Sandra Adair |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | John Gilroy |
| 2014 | A Most Violent Year | Ron Patane |
| 2014 | The Guest | Adam Wingard |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McArdle |
| 2015 | Heaven Knows What | Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie |
| 2015 | Room | Nathan Nugent |
| 2015 | It Follows | Julio C. Perez IV |
| 2015 | Manos sucias | Kristan Sprague |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders |
| 2016 | Swiss Army Man | Matthew Hannam |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Jennifer Lame |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Jake Roberts |
| 2016 | Jackie | Sebastián Sepúlveda |
| 2017 | I, Tonya | Tatiana S. Riegel |
| 2017 | Good Time | Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Walter Fasano |
| 2017 | The Rider | Alex O'Flinn |
| 2017 | Get Out | Gregory Plotkin |
| 2018 | You Were Never Really Here | Joe Bini |
| 2018 | We the Animals | Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates, and Jeremiah Zagar |
| 2018 | American Animals | Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart |
| 2018 | The Tale | Anne Fabini, Alex Hall, and Gary Levy |
| 2018 | Mid90s | Nick Houy |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie |
| 2019 | The Third Wife | Julie Béziau |
| 2019 | Sword of Trust | Tyler L. Cook |
| 2019 | The Lighthouse | Louise Ford |
| 2019 | Give Me Liberty | Kirill Mikhanovsky |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | The Invisible Man | Andy Canny |
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Scott Cummings |
| 2020 | Residue | Merawi Gerima |
| 2020 | I Carry You with Me | Enat Sidi |
| 2021 | Zola | Joi McMillon |
| 2021 | A Chiara | Affonso Gonçalves |
| 2021 | The Nowhere Inn | Ali Greer |
| 2021 | The Novice | Lauren Hadaway and Nathan Nugent |
| 2021 | The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain | Enrico Natale |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Paul Rogers |
| 2022 | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley |
| 2022 | The Cathedral | Ricky D'Ambrose |
| 2022 | Aftersun | Blair McClendon |
| 2022 | Tár | Monika Willi |
| 2023 | How to Blow Up a Pipeline | Daniel Garber |
| 2023 | Rotting in the Sun | Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz and Sofía Subercaseaux |
| 2023 | We Grown Now | Stephanie Filo |
| 2023 | Theater Camp | Jon Philpot |
| 2023 | Upon Entry | Emanuele Tiziani |
| 2024 | September 5 | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
| 2024 | Jazzy | Laura Colwell and Vanara Taing |
| 2024 | The Apprentice | Olivier Bugge Coutté and Olivia Neergaard-Holm |
| 2024 | Nightbitch | Anne McCabe |
| 2024 | Dìdi | Arielle Zakowski |