# Saturn Award for Best Editing

The Saturn Award for Best Editing (originally Saturn Award for Outstanding Editing) is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the 5th Saturn Awards.
The award was discontinued after being awarded again at the following ceremony, but was reactivated for the 38th ceremony in 2012. Paul Hirsch, who won the inaugural award for Star Wars (1977), sharing the award with Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew, won it again thirty-four years later for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011); he is currently the only editor to have won it twice.

## Winners and nominees
### 1970s

| Year | Editors | Film |
| 1977 (5th) | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (Juried) | Star Wars |
| 1978 (6th) | Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (Juried) | Piranha |

### 2010s

| Year | Editor(s) | Film |
| 2011 (38th) | Paul Hirsch | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol |
| 2011 (38th) | Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey | Super 8 |
| 2011 (38th) | Mark Day | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 |
| 2011 (38th) | Michael Kahn | The Adventures of Tintin |
| 2011 (38th) | Thelma Schoonmaker | Hugo |
| 2011 (38th) | Christian Wagner, Fred Raskin, and Kelly Matsumoto | Fast Five |
| 2012 (39th) | Alexander Berner | Cloud Atlas |
| 2012 (39th) | Stuart Baird and Kate Baird | Skyfall |
| 2012 (39th) | Bob Ducsay | Looper |
| 2012 (39th) | Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek | The Avengers |
| 2012 (39th) | John Gilroy | The Bourne Legacy |
| 2012 (39th) | Tim Squyres | Life of Pi |
| 2013 (40th) | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger | Gravity |
| 2013 (40th) | Peter Amundson and John Gilroy | Pacific Rim |
| 2013 (40th) | Alan Edward Bell | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire |
| 2013 (40th) | Mark Day | About Time |
| 2013 (40th) | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill | Rush |
| 2013 (40th) | Christian Wagner, Kelly Matsumoto, and Dylan Highsmith | Fast & Furious 6 |
| 2014 (41st) | James Herbert and Laura Jennings | Edge of Tomorrow |
| 2014 (41st) | Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt | Captain America: The Winter Soldier |
| 2014 (41st) | William Goldenberg and Tim Squyres | Unbroken |
| 2014 (41st) | John Ottman | X-Men: Days of Future Past |
| 2014 (41st) | Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne, and Craig Wood | Guardians of the Galaxy |
| 2014 (41st) | Lee Smith | Interstellar |
| 2015 (42nd) | Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey | Star Wars: The Force Awakens |
| 2015 (42nd) | Eddie Hamilton and Jon Harris | Kingsman: The Secret Service |
| 2015 (42nd) | Dan Lebental and Colby Parker, Jr. | Ant-Man |
| 2015 (42nd) | Margaret Sixel | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2015 (42nd) | Kevin Stitt | Jurassic World |
| 2015 (42nd) | Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith, Kirk Morri, and Leigh Folsom Boyd | Furious 7 |
| 2016 (43rd) | Michael Kahn | The BFG |
| 2016 (43rd) | Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt | Captain America: Civil War |
| 2016 (43rd) | John Gilroy, Colin Goudie, and Jabez Olssen | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
| 2016 (43rd) | Stefan Grube | 10 Cloverfield Lane |
| 2016 (43rd) | Mark Livolsi | The Jungle Book |
| 2016 (43rd) | Joe Walker | Arrival |
| 2017 (44th) | Bob Ducsay | Star Wars: The Last Jedi |
| 2017 (44th) | Debbie Berman and Michael P. Shawver | Black Panther |
| 2017 (44th) | Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt | Logan |
| 2017 (44th) | Gregory Plotkin | Get Out |
| 2017 (44th) | Paul Rubell and Christian Wagner | The Fate of the Furious |
| 2017 (44th) | Sidney Wolinsky | The Shape of Water |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt | Avengers: Endgame |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | James Herbert | Aladdin |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Nicholas Monsour | Us |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Kirk Morri | Aquaman |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Evan Schiff | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Christopher Tellefsen | A Quiet Place |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Bob Ducsay | Knives Out |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Maryann Brandon and Stefan Grube | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Mike Flanagan | Doctor Sleep |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Yang Jin-mo | Parasite |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Jennifer Lame | Tenet |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Fred Raskin | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |

### 2020s

| Year | Editor(s) | Film |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Eddie Hamilton | Top Gun: Maverick |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Jeffrey Ford and Leigh Folsom Boyd | Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | William Hoy and Tyler Nelson | The Batman |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Cam McLauchlin | Nightmare Alley |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Nicholas Monsour | Nope |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Paul Rogers | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Pietro Scalia, Doug Brandt, and Calvin Wimmer | Ambulance |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Jennifer Lame | Oppenheimer |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, and James Cameron | Avatar: The Way of Water |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Dylan Highsmith, Kelly Matsumoto, Corbin Mehl, and Laura Yanovich | Fast X |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, and Dirk Westervelt | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Nathan Orloff | John Wick: Chapter 4 |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Eddie Hamilton | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One |

## Multiple nominations
### 5 nominations

* Jeffrey Ford

### 4 nominations

* Christian Wagner

### 3 nominations

* Maryann Brandon
* Bob Ducsay
* John Gilroy
* Eddie Hamilton
* Dylan Highsmith
* Kelly Matsumoto
* Fred Raskin
* Matthew Schmidt

### 2 nominations

* Leigh Folsom Boyd
* Mark Day
* Stefan Grube
* James Herbert
* Michael Kahn
* Jennifer Lame
* Mary Jo Markey
* Michael McCusker
* Nicholas Monsour
* Kirk Morri
* Tim Squyres
* Dirk Westervelt

## Multiple wins
### 2 wins

* Bob Ducsay
* Paul Hirsch