Academy Award for Best Film Editing

These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.^[2]

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

• BAFTA Award for Best Editing