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 Miserables--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--Francoise 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--Noelle 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--Herve 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 Cuaron, Alex Rodriguez
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