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

## Infobox (award)

- **name**: Academy Award for Best Film Editing
- **presenter**: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- **country**: United States
- **year**: 7th Academy Awards, 1935
- **holder label**: Most recent winner
- **holder**: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
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