# Academy Award for Best Film Editing

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. 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.
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. 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. 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.

## 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:
* 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

| Category | Name | Superlative | Year | Notes |
| Most awards | Thelma Schoonmaker | 3 awards | 2006 | Awards resulted from 9 nominations |
| Most awards | Michael Kahn | 3 awards | 1998 | Awards resulted from 8 nominations |
| Most awards | Daniel Mandell | 3 awards | 1960 | Awards resulted from 5 nominations |
| Most awards | Ralph Dawson | 3 awards | 1938 | Awards resulted from 4 nominations |
| Most nominations | Thelma Schoonmaker | 9 nominations | 2023 | Nominations resulted in 3 awards |
| Most nominations without a win | Frederic Knudtson | 6 nominations | 1963 | Nominations resulted in no awards |
| Most nominations without a win | Gerry Hambling | 6 nominations | 1996 | Nominations resulted in no awards |
| 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 |
Superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

## Winners and nominees

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

### 1930s

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

### 1940s

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

### 1950s

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

### 1960s

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

### 1970s

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

### 1980s

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

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

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

## Shortlisted finalists

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

## Multiple wins and nominations

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).