Academy Award for Film Editing

• 1934 Eskimo - 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
  • Lloyds 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
  • 100 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
• 1940 North West Mounted Police - Anne Bauchens
  • The Grapes of Wrath - Robert E. 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. 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, 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, 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
• 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 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 - Johnny Green, Dorothy Spencer
  • Quo Vadis - Ralph E. Winters
  • The Well - Cester 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
  • War of the Worlds - Everett Douglas
• 1954 On the Waterfront - Gene Milford
  • The Caine Mutiny - Willam A. Lyon
  • The High and the Moghty - 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 80 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
• 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 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, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.
• 1964 Mary Poppins - Cotton Warburton
  • Becket - Anne Coates
  • Father Goose - Ted J. Kent
  • Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Michael Luciano
  • My Fair Lady - William Ziegler
• 1965 The Sound of Music - William 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 - Frederic 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 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! - John Green
  • Wild in the Streets - Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
• 1969 Z - Françoise Bonnot
  • Hello, Dolly! - William Reynolds
  • Midnight Cowboy - Hugh A. Robertson
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria - William Lyon, Earle Herdan
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Frederic Steinkamp
• 1970 Patton - Hugh S. Fowler
  • Airport - Stuart Gilmore
  • M*A*S*H - 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, 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 Reynolds, Peter Zinner
  • The Hot Rock - Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
  • The Poseidon Adventure - Harold F. Kress
• 1973 The Sting - William 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 - Frederic Steinkamp, Don Guidice
• 1976 Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
  • All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe
  • Bound for Glory - Robert 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 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
• 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
  • Reds - Shirley Russell
• 1982 Gandhi - John Bloom
  • Das Boot - Hannes Nikel
  • E. T.--The Extra-Terrestrial - Carol Littleton
  • An Officer and a Gentleman - Peter Zinner
  • Tootsie - Frederic Steinkamp, William Steinkamp
• 1983 The Right Stuff - Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Steward, Tom Rolf
  • Blue Thunder - Frank Morris, Edward Abroms
  • Flashdance - Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
  • Silkwood - Sam O'Steen
  • Terms of Endearment - Richard Marks
• 1984 The Killing Fields - Jim Clark (film editor)
  • Amadeus - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
  • The Cotton Club - Barry Malkin, Robert O. Lovett
  • A Passage to India - David Lean
  • Romancing the Stone - DonnCambern, Frank Morriss
• 1985 Witness - Thom Noble
  • A Chorus Line - John Bloom
  • Out of Africa - Frederic 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 (film editor)
  • 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 Fossy - 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 Rosenbloom
  • The Bear (L'Ours) (France) - Noëlle Boisson
• 1990 Dances with Wolves - Noel 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 IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
  • Thelma and 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, 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 Manke
  • 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 Rosenbloom
  • Crimson Tide - Chris Lebenzon
  • Seven - Richard Francis-Bruce
• 1996 The English Patient - Walter Murch
  • Evita - Gerry Hambling
  • Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Jerry Maguire - Joe Hutshing
  • Shine - Pip Karmel
• 1997 Titanic - Conrad Biff IV, 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

With the rise of digital non-linear editing systems, the award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999:

• 1999 The Matrix - Zach Sternberg
  • American Beauty - Tariq Anwar
  • The Cider House Rules - Lisa Zeno Churgin
  • The Insider - William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
  • The Sixth Sense - Andrew Mondshein
• 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 - D. Michael Horton
  • The Pianist - Hervé de Luze

See also:

• Film editing
• Academy Award

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