# American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors, awarded to what members of the American Cinema Editors Guild deem as the best edited dramatic film for a given year. Before splitting in 2000, this award included both dramatic and comedy/musical films.

## Winners and nominees
### 1960s

Best Edited Feature Film
| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 1961 | The Parent Trap | Philip W. Anderson |
| 1961 | Fanny | William H. Reynolds |
| 1961 | The Hustler | Dede Allen |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Frederic Knudtson |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Frank P. Keller |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Samuel E. Beetley |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Anne V. Coates |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | John McSweeney Jr. |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Aaron Stell |
| 1962 | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Walter Thompson |
| 1963 | How the West Was Won | Harold F. Kress |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Dorothy Spencer |
| 1963 | Hud | Frank Bracht |
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, and Gene Fowler Jr. |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Antony Gibbs |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Cotton Warburton |
| 1964 | Becket | Anne V. Coates |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | William H. Ziegler |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Fredric Steinkamp |
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! | Marjorie Fowler |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | William H. Reynolds |
| 1965 | Dear Brigitte | Marjorie Fowler |
| 1965 | The Flight of the Phoenix | Michael Luciano |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Ralph Rosenblum |
| 1965 | Tokyo Olympiad | Richard L. Van Enger |
| 1966 | Fantastic Voyage (TIE) | William B. Murphy |
| 1966 | Grand Prix (TIE) | Fredric Steinkamp (supervising editor), Henry Berman, Stu Linder, and Frank Santillo |
| 1966 | The Professionals | Peter Zinner |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | William H. Reynolds |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Sam O'Steen |
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen | Michael Luciano |
| 1967 | Beach Red | Frank P. Keller |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Dede Allen |
| 1967 | Doctor Dolittle | Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Hal Ashby |
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Robert C. Jones |
| 1968 | Bullitt | Frank P. Keller |
| 1968 | The Boston Strangler | Marion Rothman |
| 1968 | Funny Girl | William Sands, Robert Swink, and Maury Winetrobe |
| 1968 | The Odd Couple | Frank Bracht |
| 1968 | Oliver! | Ralph Kemplen |
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! (TIE) | William H. Reynolds |
| 1969 | True Grit (TIE) | Warren Low |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Richard Marden |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer |
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Earle Herdan and William A. Lyon |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 1970 | Patton | Hugh S. Fowler |
| 1970 | Airport | Stuart Gilmore |
| 1970 | The Great White Hope | William H. Reynolds |
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | Danford B. Greene |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Inoue Chikaya, Pembroke J. Herring, and James E. Newcom |
| 1971 | Summer of '42 | Folmar Blangsted |
| 1971 | The African Elephant | Alan Jaggs |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 1971 | Kotch | Ralph E. Winters |
| 1971 | Willard | Warren Low |
| 1972 | Cabaret | David Bretherton |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Peter Zinner |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Harold F. Kress |
| 1973 | The Sting | William H. Reynolds |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Ralph Kemplen |
| 1973 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Frank P. Keller and James Galloway |
| 1974 | The Longest Yard | Michael Luciano |
| 1974 | Earthquake | Dorothy Spencer |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress |
| 1975 | Jaws | Verna Fields |
| 1975 | The Hindenburg | Donn Cambern |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, and Sheldon Kahn |
| 1976 | Rocky | Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Robert L. Wolfe |
| 1976 | Network | Alan Heim |
| 1977 | The Turning Point | William H. Reynolds |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Michael Kahn |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Peter Zinner |
| 1978 | Hooper | Donn Cambern |
| 1978 | Superman | Stuart Baird |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Alan Heim |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, and Lisa Fruchtman |
| 1979 | The Black Stallion | Robert Dalva |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1980 | Fame | Gerry Hambling |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Michael Kahn |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Robert L. Wolfe |
| 1981 | Reds | Dede Allen and Craig McKay |
| 1982 | Gandhi | John Bloom |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Carol Littleton |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Fredric Steinkamp and William Steinkamp |
| 1983 | WarGames | Tom Rolf |
| 1983 | Flashdance | Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Nena Danevic and Michael Chandley |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Jim Clark |
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss |
| 1985 | Witness | Thom Noble |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring, and Sheldon Kahn |
| 1985 | Runaway Train | Henry Richardson |
| 1986 | Platoon | Claire Simpson |
| 1986 | Hoosiers | C. Timothy O'Meara |
| 1986 | The Mission | Jim Clark |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Gabriella Cristiani |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | Richard Marks |
| 1987 | Fatal Attraction | Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning (TIE) | Gerry Hambling |
| 1988 | Rain Man (TIE) | Stu Linder |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1989 | Glory | Steven Rosenblum |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | David Brenner and Joe Hutshing |
| 1989 | Field of Dreams | Ian Crafford |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Neil Travis |
| 1990 | Ghost | Walter Murch |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1991 | JFK | Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Craig McKay |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, and Richard A. Harris |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Joel Cox |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | Robert Leighton |
| 1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | Dov Hoenig and Arthur Schmidt |
| 1992 | The Player | Geraldine Peroni |
| 1992 | Scent of a Woman | William Steinkamp, Michael Tronick, and Harvey Rosenstock |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Michael Kahn |
| 1993 | The Fugitive | Dennis Virkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brochu, Richard Nord, and Dov Hoenig |
| 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Anne V. Coates |
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father | Gerry Hambling |
| 1993 | The Piano | Veronika Jenet |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Sally Menke |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 1994 | Speed | John Wright |
| 1994 | True Lies | Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, and Richard A. Harris |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Steven Rosenblum |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill |
| 1995 | Casino | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Chris Lebenzon |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | John Ottman |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Walter Murch |
| 1996 | Evita | Gerry Hambling |
| 1996 | Fargo | Roderick Jaynes |
| 1996 | The Rock | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 1996 | Shine | Pip Karmel |
| 1997 | Titanic | Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris |
| 1997 | Air Force One | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 1997 | As Good as It Gets | Richard Marks |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Pietro Scalia |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Peter Honess |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Michael Kahn |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Hank Corwin, Freeman Davies, and Tom Rolf |
| 1998 | Out of Sight | Anne V. Coates |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | David Gamble |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein |
Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 1999 | The Matrix | Zach Staenberg |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury |
| 1999 | The Insider | William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, and David Rosenbloom |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Andrew Mondshein |
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Walter Murch |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Pietro Scalia |
| 2000 | Billy Elliot | John Wilson |
| 2000 | Cast Away | Arthur Schmidt |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Tim Squyres |
| 2000 | Traffic | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | Pietro Scalia |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | John Gilbert |
| 2001 | Memento | Dody Dorn |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Kevin Tent |
| 2002 | The Hours | Peter Boyle |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Michael J. Horton |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Michael Kahn |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Jamie Selkirk |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Walter Murch |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Lee Smith |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Joel Cox |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | William Goldenberg |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2004 | Collateral | Jim Miller and Paul Rubell |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland | Matt Chesse |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Sally Menke |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Virginia Katz |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Joel Cox |
| 2005 | Crash | Hughes Winborne |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Claire Simpson |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2005 | Munich | Michael Kahn |
| 2006 | Babel (TIE) | Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione |
| 2006 | The Departed (TIE) | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2006 | Casino Royale | Stuart Baird |
| 2006 | The Queen | Lucia Zucchetti |
| 2006 | United 93 | Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Christopher Rouse |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Jay Cassidy |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | John Gilroy |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Roderick Jaynes |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Dylan Tichenor |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Chris Dickens |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Lee Smith |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill |
| 2008 | Milk | Elliot Graham |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Chris Innis and Bob Murawski |
| 2009 | Avatar | James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin |
| 2009 | District 9 | Julian Clarke |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Dana E. Glauberman |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Andrew Weisblum |
| 2010 | The Fighter | Pamela Martin |
| 2010 | Inception | Lee Smith |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Tariq Anwar |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Kevin Tent |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
| 2011 | Hugo | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Christopher Tellefsen |
| 2011 | War Horse | Michael Kahn |
| 2012 | Argo | William Goldenberg |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Tim Squyres |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Michael Kahn |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Stuart Baird |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Christopher Rouse |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Joe Walker |
| 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger |
| 2013 | Her | Jeff Buchanan and Eric Zumbrunnen |
| 2013 | Saving Mr. Banks | Mark Livolsi |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Sandra Adair |
| 2014 | American Sniper | Joel Cox and Gary Roach |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Kirk Baxter |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | William Goldenberg |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | John Gilroy |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Tom Cross |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Margaret Sixel |
| 2015 | The Martian | Pietro Scalia |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Stephen Mirrione |
| 2015 | Sicario | Joe Walker |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey |
| 2016 | Arrival | Joe Walker |
| 2016 | Hacksaw Ridge | John Gilbert |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Jake Roberts |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Jennifer Lame |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Lee Smith |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Joe Walker |
| 2017 | Molly's Game | Alan Baumgarten, Josh Schaeffer, and Elliot Graham |
| 2017 | The Post | Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Sidney Wolinsky |
| 2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | John Ottman |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Barry Alexander Brown |
| 2018 | First Man | Tom Cross |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Jay Cassidy |
| 2019 | Parasite | Yang Jin-mo |
| 2019 | Ford v Ferrari | Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2019 | Joker | Jeff Groth |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Jennifer Lame |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Editor(s) |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Alan Baumgarten |
| 2020 | Mank | Kirk Baxter |
| 2020 | Minari | Harry Yoon |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Mikkel E. G. Nielsen |
| 2021 | King Richard | Pamela Martin |
| 2021 | Belfast | Úna Ní Dhonghaíle |
| 2021 | Dune | Joe Walker |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Elliot Graham and Tom Cross |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Peter Sciberras |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Eddie Hamilton |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Sven Budelmann |
| 2022 | Elvis | Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond |
| 2022 | Tár | Monika Willi |
| 2022 | The Woman King | Terilyn A. Shropshire |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Jennifer Lame |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Laurent Sénéchal |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2023 | Maestro | Michelle Tesoro |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Keith Fraase |
| 2024 | Civil War | Jake Roberts |
| 2024 | Conclave | Nick Emerson |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Joe Walker |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Juliette Welfling |
| 2024 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel |