Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing is one of the yearly awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  

Since 1981, every movie selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar.  About two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. 

This award was first given for movies released in 1934. The name of this award is sometimes changed. In 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing.

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

1930s 
 1934 Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent (see Ray Mala)—Conrad A. Nervig
 Cleopatra—Anne Bauchens
 One Night of Love—Gene Milford
 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream—Ralph Dawson
 David Copperfield—Robert J. Kern
 The Informer—George Hively
 Les Misérables—Barbara McLean
 Lives of a Bengal Lancer—Ellsworth Hoagland
 Mutiny on the Bounty—Margaret Booth
 1936 Anthony Adverse—Ralph Dawson
 Come and Get It—Edward Curtiss
 The Great Ziegfeld—William S. Gray
 Lloyd's of London—Barbara McLean
 A Tale of Two Cities—Conrad A. Nervig
 Theodora Goes Wild—Otto Meyer
 1937 Lost Horizon—Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
 The Awful Truth—Al Clark
 Captains Courageous—Elmo Vernon
 The Good Earth—Basil Wrangell
 One Hundred Men and a Girl—Bernard W. Burton
 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood—Ralph Dawson
 Alexander's Ragtime Band—Barbara McLean
 The Great Waltz—Tom Held
 Test Pilot—Tom Held
 You Can't Take It with You—Gene Havlick
 1939 Gone with the Wind—Hal C. Kern, James E. Mewcom
 Goodbye, Mr. Chips—Charles Frend
 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—Gene Havlick, Al Clark
 The Rains Came—Barbara McLean
 Stagecoach—Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer

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

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

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

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

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

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

The award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999.
 1999 The Matrix—Zach Staenberg
 American Beauty—Tariq Anwar
 The Cider House Rules—Lisa Zeno Churgin
 The Insider—William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
 The Sixth Sense—Andrew Mondshein

2000s
  2000  Traffic—Stephen Mirrione
 Almost Famous—Joe Hutshing, Saar Klein
 Gladiator—Pietro Scalia
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—Tim Squyres
 Wonder Boys—Dede Allen

  2001  Black Hawk Down—Pietro Scalia
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring—John Gilbert
 A Beautiful Mind—Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
 Memento—Dody Dorn
 Moulin Rouge!—Jill Bilcock

 2002 Chicago—Martin Walsh
 Gangs of New York—Thelma Schoonmaker
 The Hours—Peter Boyle
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers—Michael Horton
 The Pianist—Hervé de Luze

 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King—Jamie Selkirk
 City of God—Daniel Rezende
 Cold Mountain—Walter Murch
 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World—Lee Smith
 Seabiscuit—William Goldenberg

 2004 The Aviator—Thelma Schoonmaker
 Collateral—Jim Miller and Paul Rubell
 Finding Neverland—Matt Chesse
 Million Dollar Baby—Joel Cox
 Ray—Paul Hirsch

 2005 Crash—Hughes Winborne
 Cinderella Man—Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
 The Constant Gardener—Claire Simpson
 Munich—Michael Kahn
 Walk the Line—Michael McCusker

 2006 The Departed—Thelma Schoonmaker
 Babel—Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
 Blood Diamond—Steven Rosenblum
 Children of Men—Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez
 United 93—Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse

 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum—Christopher Rouse
 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—Juliette Welfling
 Into the Wild—Jay Cassidy
 No Country for Old Men—Roderick Jaynes (Jaynes is a pseudonym for the Coen brothers)
 There Will Be Blood—Dylan Tichenor

 2008 Slumdog Millionaire—Chris Dickens The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
 The Dark Knight—Lee Smith
 Frost/Nixon—Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
 Milk—Elliot Graham

 2009 The Hurt Locker—Chris Innis, Bob Murawski
 Avatar—James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin
 District 9—Julian Clarke
 Inglourious Basterds—Sally Menke
 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire—Joe Klotz

2010s
 2010 - The Social Network—Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
 Black Swan—Andrew Weisblum
 127 Hours—Jon Harris
 The Fighter—Pamela Martin
 The King's Speech—Tariq Anwar

 2011 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
 The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
 The Descendants - Kevin Tent
 Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
 Moneyball - Christopher Tellefsen

Related pages
 BAFTA Award for Best Editing

References

Film Editing