Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. Since 1981 until 2014, every film selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.^[1][2] Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not presently eligible.^[3] The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.^[4] The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.^[3] The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the Academy. This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.^[5]

History

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

Four film editors have won this award three times in their career...

• Ralph Dawson won for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Daniel Mandell won for The Pride of the Yankees (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Apartment (1960).
• Michael Kahn won for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
• Thelma Schoonmaker won for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006).

Superlatives

Superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[6]

Nominations and awards

These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.^[7]

1930s

1940s

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, Henry Batista
  • 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 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 H. 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 H. 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 H. 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. Beetley, 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 Priestley
  • 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
  • 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

Thelma Schoonmaker and Columba Powell at the Cannes Film Festival (2009). Schoonmaker is among the deans of film editing; Powell is the son of Michael Powell, a prominent film director to whom Schoonmaker was married until his death in 1990.

• 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 Q. 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

2000s

2010s

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Editing
• Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

References