# BAFTA Award for Best Editing

The BAFTA Award for Best Editing is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards, to recognize a film editor who has delivered outstanding editing in a film.
BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1966, selected editors have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Editing at an annual ceremony. Traditionally, four films were nominated each year until 2000, when the Academy expanded the annual number of nominees to five. The predetermined limit was exceeded twice: in 1992, when, due to a tie in the vote, there were five nominees, and in 2008, when there were six nominees.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category; only the principal editor(s) for each film are named, which excludes additional editors, supervising editors, etc. The actual winner of Best Editing is selected by "Chapter Voting"; only Academy members who are identified as members of the Editing Chapter vote on the winner.

## Winners and nominees
### 1960s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1966 (20th) | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Tom Priestley |
| 1966 (20th) | Alfie | Thelma Connell |
| 1966 (20th) | Arabesque | Freddie Wilson |
| 1966 (20th) | The Quiller Memorandum | Freddie Wilson |
| 1967 (21st) | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Graduate | Sam O'Steen |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Kevin Brownlow |
| 1968 (22nd) | Oliver! | Ralph Kemplen |
| 1968 (22nd) | Romeo and Juliet | Reginald Mills |
| 1969 (23rd) | Midnight Cowboy | Hugh A. Robertson |
| 1969 (23rd) | Bullitt | Frank P. Keller |
| 1969 (23rd) | Oh! What a Lovely War | Kevin Connor |
| 1969 (23rd) | Z | Françoise Bonnot |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1970 (24th) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer |
| 1970 (24th) | M*A*S*H | Danford B. Greene |
| 1970 (24th) | Ryan's Daughter | Norman Savage |
| 1970 (24th) | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Fredric Steinkamp |
| 1971 (25th) | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Richard Marden |
| 1971 (25th) | Fiddler on the Roof | Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence |
| 1971 (25th) | Performance | Antony Gibbs |
| 1971 (25th) | Taking Off | John Carter |
| 1972 (26th) | The French Connection | Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 1972 (26th) | Cabaret | David Bretherton |
| 1972 (26th) | A Clockwork Orange | Bill Butler |
| 1972 (26th) | Deliverance | Tom Priestley |
| 1973 (27th) | The Day of the Jackal | Ralph Kemplen |
| 1973 (27th) | Charley Varrick | Frank Morriss |
| 1973 (27th) | Don't Look Now | Graeme Clifford |
| 1973 (27th) | The National Health | Ralph Sheldon |
| 1974 (28th) | The Conversation | Richard Chew and Walter Murch |
| 1974 (28th) | Chinatown | Sam O'Steen |
| 1974 (28th) | Murder on the Orient Express | Anne V. Coates |
| 1974 (28th) | The Three Musketeers | John Victor Smith |
| 1975 (29th) | Dog Day Afternoon | Dede Allen |
| 1975 (29th) | The Godfather Part II | Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin and Richard Marks |
| 1975 (29th) | Jaws | Verna Fields |
| 1975 (29th) | Rollerball | Antony Gibbs |
| 1976 (30th) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn |
| 1976 (30th) | All the President's Men | Robert L. Wolfe |
| 1976 (30th) | Marathon Man | Jim Clark |
| 1976 (30th) | Taxi Driver | Marcia Lucas, Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro |
| 1977 (31st) | Annie Hall | Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont |
| 1977 (31st) | A Bridge Too Far | Antony Gibbs |
| 1977 (31st) | Network | Alan Heim |
| 1977 (31st) | Rocky | Richard Halsey |
| 1978 (32nd) | Midnight Express | Gerry Hambling |
| 1978 (32nd) | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Michael Kahn |
| 1978 (32nd) | Julia | Walter Murch |
| 1978 (32nd) | Star Wars | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew |
| 1979 (33rd) | The Deer Hunter | Peter Zinner |
| 1979 (33rd) | Alien | Terry Rawlings |
| 1979 (33rd) | Apocalypse Now | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman |
| 1979 (33rd) | Manhattan | Susan E. Morse |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1980 (34th) | All That Jazz | Alan Heim |
| 1980 (34th) | The Elephant Man | Anne V. Coates |
| 1980 (34th) | Fame | Gerry Hambling |
| 1980 (34th) | Kramer vs. Kramer | Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 1981 (35th) | Raging Bull | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1981 (35th) | Chariots of Fire | Terry Rawlings |
| 1981 (35th) | The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Bloom |
| 1981 (35th) | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Michael Kahn |
| 1982 (36th) | Missing | Françoise Bonnot |
| 1982 (36th) | Blade Runner | Terry Rawlings |
| 1982 (36th) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Carol Littleton |
| 1982 (36th) | Gandhi | John Bloom |
| 1983 (37th) | Flashdance | Walt Mulconery and Bud S. Smith |
| 1983 (37th) | The King of Comedy | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1983 (37th) | Local Hero | Michael Bradsell |
| 1983 (37th) | Zelig | Susan E. Morse |
| 1984 (38th) | The Killing Fields | Jim Clark |
| 1984 (38th) | Another Country | Gerry Hambling |
| 1984 (38th) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Michael Kahn |
| 1984 (38th) | Under Fire | John Bloom and Mark Conte |
| 1985 (39th) | Amadeus | Michael A. Chandler and Nena Danevic |
| 1985 (39th) | Back to the Future | Arthur Schmidt and Harry Keramidas |
| 1985 (39th) | A Chorus Line | John Bloom |
| 1985 (39th) | Witness | Thom Noble |
| 1986 (40th) | The Mission | Jim Clark |
| 1986 (40th) | Hannah and Her Sisters | Susan E. Morse |
| 1986 (40th) | Mona Lisa | Lesley Walker |
| 1986 (40th) | A Room with a View | Humphrey Dixon |
| 1987 (41st) | Platoon | Claire Simpson |
| 1987 (41st) | Cry Freedom | Lesley Walker |
| 1987 (41st) | Hope and Glory | Ian Crafford |
| 1987 (41st) | Radio Days | Susan E. Morse |
| 1988 (42nd) | Fatal Attraction | Peter E. Berger and Michael Kahn |
| 1988 (42nd) | A Fish Called Wanda | John Jympson |
| 1988 (42nd) | The Last Emperor | Gabriella Cristiani |
| 1988 (42nd) | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1989 (43rd) | Mississippi Burning | Gerry Hambling |
| 1989 (43rd) | Dangerous Liaisons | Mick Audsley |
| 1989 (43rd) | Dead Poets Society | William M. Anderson |
| 1989 (43rd) | Rain Man | Stu Linder |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1990 (44th) | Goodfellas | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1990 (44th) | Cinema Paradiso | Mario Morra |
| 1990 (44th) | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Susan E. Morse |
| 1990 (44th) | Dick Tracy | Richard Marks |
| 1991 (45th) | The Commitments | Gerry Hambling |
| 1991 (45th) | Dances with Wolves | Neil Travis |
| 1991 (45th) | The Silence of the Lambs | Craig McKay |
| 1991 (45th) | Thelma & Louise | Thom Noble |
| 1992 (46th) | JFK | Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia |
| 1992 (46th) | Cape Fear | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1992 (46th) | Howards End | Andrew Marcus |
| 1992 (46th) | The Player | Geraldine Peroni |
| 1992 (46th) | Strictly Ballroom | Jill Bilcock |
| 1993 (47th) | Schindler's List | Michael Kahn |
| 1993 (47th) | The Fugitive | Dennis Virkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brochu, Richard Nord and Dov Hoenig |
| 1993 (47th) | In the Line of Fire | Anne V. Coates |
| 1993 (47th) | The Piano | Veronika Jenet |
| 1994 (48th) | Speed | John Wright |
| 1994 (48th) | Forrest Gump | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1994 (48th) | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Jon Gregory |
| 1994 (48th) | Pulp Fiction | Sally Menke |
| 1995 (49th) | The Usual Suspects | John Ottman |
| 1995 (49th) | Apollo 13 | Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley |
| 1995 (49th) | Babe | Marcus D'Arcy and Jay Friedkin |
| 1995 (49th) | The Madness of King George | Tariq Anwar |
| 1996 (50th) | The English Patient | Walter Murch |
| 1996 (50th) | Evita | Gerry Hambling |
| 1996 (50th) | Fargo | Roderick Jaynes |
| 1996 (50th) | Shine | Pip Karmel |
| 1997 (51st) | L.A. Confidential | Peter Honess |
| 1997 (51st) | The Full Monty | Nick Moore and David Freeman |
| 1997 (51st) | Romeo + Juliet | Jill Bilcock |
| 1997 (51st) | Titanic | Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris |
| 1998 (52nd) | Shakespeare in Love | David Gamble |
| 1998 (52nd) | Elizabeth | Jill Bilcock |
| 1998 (52nd) | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Niven Howie |
| 1998 (52nd) | Saving Private Ryan | Michael Kahn |
| 1999 (53rd) | American Beauty | Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury |
| 1999 (53rd) | Being John Malkovich | Eric Zumbrunnen |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Matrix | Zach Staenberg |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Sixth Sense | Andrew Mondshein |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 2000 (54th) | Gladiator | Pietro Scalia |
| 2000 (54th) | Billy Elliot | John Wilson |
| 2000 (54th) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tim Squyres |
| 2000 (54th) | Erin Brockovich | Anne V. Coates |
| 2000 (54th) | Traffic | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2001 (55th) | Mulholland Drive | Mary Sweeney |
| 2001 (55th) | Amélie | Hervé Schneid |
| 2001 (55th) | Black Hawk Down | Pietro Scalia |
| 2001 (55th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | John Gilbert |
| 2001 (55th) | Moulin Rouge! | Jill Bilcock |
| 2002 (56th) | City of God | Daniel Rezende |
| 2002 (56th) | Chicago | Martin Walsh |
| 2002 (56th) | Gangs of New York | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2002 (56th) | The Hours | Peter Boyle |
| 2002 (56th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Michael J. Horton |
| 2003 (57th) | Lost in Translation | Sarah Flack |
| 2003 (57th) | 21 Grams | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2003 (57th) | Cold Mountain | Walter Murch |
| 2003 (57th) | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Sally Menke |
| 2003 (57th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Jamie Selkirk |
| 2004 (58th) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Valdís Óskarsdóttir |
| 2004 (58th) | The Aviator | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2004 (58th) | Collateral | Jim Miller and Paul Rubell |
| 2004 (58th) | House of Flying Daggers | Long Cheng |
| 2004 (58th) | Vera Drake | Jim Clark |
| 2005 (59th) | The Constant Gardener | Claire Simpson |
| 2005 (59th) | Brokeback Mountain | Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor |
| 2005 (59th) | Crash | Hughes Winborne |
| 2005 (59th) | Good Night and Good Luck | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2005 (59th) | March of the Penguins | Sabine Emiliani |
| 2006 (60th) | United 93 | Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse |
| 2006 (60th) | Babel | Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise |
| 2006 (60th) | Casino Royale | Stuart Baird |
| 2006 (60th) | The Departed | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2006 (60th) | The Queen | Lucia Zucchetti |
| 2007 (61st) | The Bourne Ultimatum | Christopher Rouse |
| 2007 (61st) | American Gangster | Pietro Scalia |
| 2007 (61st) | Atonement | Paul Tothill |
| 2007 (61st) | Michael Clayton | John Gilroy |
| 2007 (61st) | No Country for Old Men | Roderick Jaynes |
| 2008 (62nd) | Slumdog Millionaire | Chris Dickens |
| 2008 (62nd) | Changeling | Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Dark Knight | Lee Smith |
| 2008 (62nd) | Frost/Nixon | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill |
| 2008 (62nd) | In Bruges | Jon Gregory |
| 2009 (63rd) | The Hurt Locker | Chris Innis and Bob Murawski |
| 2009 (63rd) | Avatar | James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin |
| 2009 (63rd) | District 9 | Julian Clarke |
| 2009 (63rd) | Inglourious Basterds | Sally Menke |
| 2009 (63rd) | Up in the Air | Dana E. Glauberman |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 2010 (64th) | The Social Network | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
| 2010 (64th) | 127 Hours | Jon Harris |
| 2010 (64th) | Black Swan | Andrew Weisblum |
| 2010 (64th) | Inception | Lee Smith |
| 2010 (64th) | The King's Speech | Tariq Anwar |
| 2011 (65th) | Senna | Chris King and Gregers Sall |
| 2011 (65th) | The Artist | Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 (65th) | Drive | Mat Newman |
| 2011 (65th) | Hugo | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2011 (65th) | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Dino Jonsäter |
| 2012 (66th) | Argo | William Goldenberg |
| 2012 (66th) | Django Unchained | Fred Raskin |
| 2012 (66th) | Life of Pi | Tim Squyres |
| 2012 (66th) | Skyfall | Stuart Baird |
| 2012 (66th) | Zero Dark Thirty | Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg |
| 2013 (67th) | Rush | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill |
| 2013 (67th) | 12 Years a Slave | Joe Walker |
| 2013 (67th) | Captain Phillips | Christopher Rouse |
| 2013 (67th) | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger |
| 2013 (67th) | The Wolf of Wall Street | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2014 (68th) | Whiplash | Tom Cross |
| 2014 (68th) | Birdman | Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione |
| 2014 (68th) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Barney Pilling |
| 2014 (68th) | The Imitation Game | William Goldenberg |
| 2014 (68th) | Nightcrawler | John Gilroy |
| 2014 (68th) | The Theory of Everything | Jinx Godfrey |
| 2015 (69th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | Margaret Sixel |
| 2015 (69th) | The Big Short | Hank Corwin |
| 2015 (69th) | Bridge of Spies | Michael Kahn |
| 2015 (69th) | The Martian | Pietro Scalia |
| 2015 (69th) | The Revenant | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2016 (70th) | Hacksaw Ridge | John Gilbert |
| 2016 (70th) | Arrival | Joe Walker |
| 2016 (70th) | La La Land | Tom Cross |
| 2016 (70th) | Manchester by the Sea | Jennifer Lame |
| 2016 (70th) | Nocturnal Animals | Joan Sobel |
| 2017 (71st) | Baby Driver | Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos |
| 2017 (71st) | Blade Runner 2049 | Joe Walker |
| 2017 (71st) | Dunkirk | Lee Smith |
| 2017 (71st) | The Shape of Water | Sidney Wolinsky |
| 2017 (71st) | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jon Gregory |
| 2018 (72nd) | Vice | Hank Corwin |
| 2018 (72nd) | Bohemian Rhapsody | John Ottman |
| 2018 (72nd) | The Favourite | Yorgos Mavropsaridis |
| 2018 (72nd) | First Man | Tom Cross |
| 2018 (72nd) | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough |
| 2019 (73rd) | Ford v Ferrari | Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Irishman | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2019 (73rd) | Jojo Rabbit | Tom Eagles |
| 2019 (73rd) | Joker | Jeff Groth |
| 2019 (73rd) | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Fred Raskin |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Editor |
| 2020 (74th) | Sound of Metal | Mikkel E. G. Nielsen |
| 2020 (74th) | The Father | Yorgos Lamprinos |
| 2020 (74th) | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 (74th) | Promising Young Woman | Frédéric Thoraval |
| 2020 (74th) | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Alan Baumgarten |
| 2021 (75th) | No Time to Die | Tom Cross and Elliot Graham |
| 2021 (75th) | Belfast | Úna Ní Dhonghaíle |
| 2021 (75th) | Dune | Joe Walker |
| 2021 (75th) | Licorice Pizza | Andy Jurgensen |
| 2021 (75th) | Summer of Soul | Joshua L. Pearson |
| 2022 (76th) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Paul Rogers |
| 2022 (76th) | All Quiet on the Western Front | Sven Budelmann |
| 2022 (76th) | The Banshees of Inisherin | Mikkel E. G. Nielsen |
| 2022 (76th) | Elvis | Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa |
| 2022 (76th) | Top Gun: Maverick | Eddie Hamilton |
| 2023 (77th) | Oppenheimer | Jennifer Lame |
| 2023 (77th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Laurent Sénéchal |
| 2023 (77th) | Killers of the Flower Moon | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2023 (77th) | Poor Things | Yorgos Mavropsaridis |
| 2023 (77th) | The Zone of Interest | Paul Watts |
| 2024 (78th) | Conclave | Nick Emerson |
| 2024 (78th) | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 (78th) | Dune: Part Two | Joe Walker |
| 2024 (78th) | Emilia Pérez | Juliette Welfling |
| 2024 (78th) | Kneecap | Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill |