Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934.

• 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 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[?]
  • 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 Navaronne[?] - 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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