The Academy Award for Film Editing

Film editing

Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...

 is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...

. Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only...

. Since 1981, 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. 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 generally eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the members of the Editing Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...

; there were 233 members of the Editing Branch in 2008. 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. 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

BAFTA Award for Best Editing

The BAFTA Award for Best Editing is one of several annual awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category; only the principal editor for each film are named, which excludes additional...

 are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.

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.

Superlatives

Category	Name	Superlative	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Michael Kahn Michael Kahn (film editor) Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors... Thelma Schoonmaker Thelma Schoonmaker Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull... Daniel Mandell Daniel Mandell Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966... Ralph Dawson Ralph Dawson Ralph Dawson was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting...	3 awards 3 awards 3 awards 3 awards	1998 2006 1960 1938	Awards resulted from 7 nominations Awards resulted from 6 nominations Awards resulted from 5 nominations Awards resulted from 4 nominations
Most Nominations	Michael Kahn Michael Kahn (film editor) Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors... Barbara McLean Barbara McLean Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy... William H. Reynolds William H. Reynolds William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...	7 nominations	2005 1951 1977	Nominations resulted in 3 awards Nominations resulted in 1 award Nominations resulted in 2 awards
Most Nominations without a Win	Gerry Hambling Gerry Hambling Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor... Frederic Knudtson Frederic Knudtson Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...	Six nominations	1996 1963	Retired Died in 1964

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

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
  Ray Mala
  Ray Mala was the first Native American movie star and is the most prolific film star that the state of Alaska has thus far produced. Ray Mala was recently named a "Top Ten Alaskan" by TIME Magazine...
  
  )—Conrad A. Nervig
  Conrad A. Nervig
  Conrad Albinus Nervig was an American film editor with 81 film credits....
  
  
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1934 film)
    Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt....
    
    —Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra...
    
    
  • One Night of Love
    One Night of Love
    One Night of Love is a 1934 romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare...
    
    —Gene Milford
• 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr...
  
  —Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting...
  
  
  • David Copperfield
    Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 American film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield...
    
    —Robert J. Kern
  • The Informer—George Hively
    George Hively
    George Hively was a film writer and film editor from 1917 to 1945. He was born in Springfield, Missouri and died in Los Angeles, CA...
    
    
  • Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (1935 film)
    Les Misérables is a 1935 American drama film based upon the famous Victor Hugo novel of the same name. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski...
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
  • Lives of a Bengal Lancer—Ellsworth Hoagland
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.The film was one of the biggest hits of its time...
    
    —Margaret Booth
    Margaret Booth
    Margaret Booth was an American film editor.Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by D. W. Griffith, around 1915. Later she worked for Louis B...
    
    
• 1936 Anthony Adverse
  Anthony Adverse
  Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen.-Plot:...
  
  —Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting...
  
  
  • Come and Get It
    Come and Get It (film)
    Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber.-Plot:...
    
    —Edward Curtiss
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    The Great Ziegfeld
    The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 musical film produced by MGM. A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin...
    
    —William S. Gray
    William S. Gray
    Dr. William S. Gray was an American educator and literacy advocate.-Life and career:Gray was born in the town of Coatsburg, Illinois on June 5, 1885. He graduated from High School in 1904 and began teaching in a one room school house in Adams County, Illinois...
    
    
  • Lloyd's of London
    Lloyd's of London (film)
    Lloyd's of London is a 1936 American drama film directed by Henry King. It stars Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, and Guy Standing. The supporting cast includes Freddie Bartholomew, George Sanders, Virginia Field, and C. Aubrey Smith. Loosely based on history, the film follows the dealings of a man...
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
  • A Tale of Two Cities
    A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
    A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna Mae Oliver. It was directed by Jack...
    
    —Conrad A. Nervig
    Conrad A. Nervig
    Conrad Albinus Nervig was an American film editor with 81 film credits....
    
    
  • Theodora Goes Wild
    Theodora Goes Wild
    Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a small town which is incensed by a risqué novel, little knowing that it was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard...
    
    —Otto Meyer
• 1937 Lost Horizon
  Lost Horizon (film)
  Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton....
  
  —Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
  • The Awful Truth
    The Awful Truth
    The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades...
    
    —Al Clark
  • Captains Courageous—Elmo Vernon
  • The Good Earth
    The Good Earth (film)
    The Good Earth is a film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S...
    
    —Basil Wrangell
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl
    One Hundred Men and a Girl
    One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster...
    
    —Bernard W. Burton
    Bernard W. Burton
    Bernard W. Burton was a Hollywood editor whose career began in 1928 and lasted through to 1965. He was responsible for editing James Whale’s 1936 version of Show Boat and a string of B-movies throughout the 30s and 40s. With the coming of the 1950s, he migrated to television and worked on such...
    
    
• 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
  The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)
  The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.-Plot:...
  
  —Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson
  Ralph Dawson was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting...
  
  
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band
    Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
    Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film released by Twentieth Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in Ragtime instead of in "serious" music...
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
  • The Great Waltz
    The Great Waltz (film)
    The Great Waltz is a 1938 American biographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is comparatively minor as Strauss' wife, Poldi Volgelhuber...
    
    —Tom Held
  • Test Pilot
    Test Pilot (film)
    Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot , his wife , and his best friend...
    
    —Tom Held
  • You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You (film)
    You Can't Take It With You Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold....
    
    —Gene Havlick
• 1939 Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind (film)
  Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...
  
  —Hal C. Kern, James E. Mewcom
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, and Paul Henreid. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West and Eric...
    
    —Charles Frend
    Charles Frend
    Charles Frend was an English film director.Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent , Sabotage and...
    
    
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...
    
    —Gene Havlick, Al Clark
  • The Rains Came
    The Rains Came
    The Rains Came is the title of a novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937, as well as the 1939 20th Century Fox film version which followed it...
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
  • Stagecoach—Otho Lovering
    Otho Lovering
    Otto Lovering , also credited as Otho Lovering, was an American film editor. He edited John Ford's classic Westerns Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, among many other films...
    
    , Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...
    
    

1940s

• 1940 North West Mounted Police
  North West Mounted Police (film)
  North West Mounted Police is a 1940 American action adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Madeleine Carroll. This was DeMille's...
  
  —Anne Bauchens
  Anne Bauchens
  Anne Bauchens was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra...
  
  
  • The Grapes of Wrath
    The Grapes of Wrath (film)
    The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F...
    
    —Robert L. Simpson
    Robert L. Simpson (film editor)
    Robert L. Simpson, A.C.E., was an American film editor.-Biography:Born in Missouri, Simpson began his career at Paramount Pictures in 1935. By the end of the decade, he had joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for more than 35 years....
    
    
  • The Letter
    The Letter (1940 film)
    The Letter is a 1940 American film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, originally filmed in 1929.-Plot:...
    
    —Warren Low
  • The Long Voyage Home
    The Long Voyage Home
    The Long Voyage Home is an American drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....
    
    —Sherman Todd
  • Rebecca—Hal C. Kern
• 1941 Sergeant York
  Sergeant York
  Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
  
  —William Holmes
  • Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...
    
    —Robert Wise
    Robert Wise
    Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director...
    
    
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1941 horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Rather than being a new film version of the novel, it is a direct remake of the 1931 film of the same name, which differs greatly from the novel. The movie was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's...
    
    —Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
    
    
  • How Green Was My Valley
    How Green Was My Valley (film)
    How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...
    
    —James B. Clark
  • The Little Foxes
    The Little Foxes (film)
    The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name...
    
    —Daniel Mandell
    Daniel Mandell
    Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966...
    
    
• 1942 The Pride of the Yankees
  The Pride of the Yankees
  The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral...
  
  —Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966...
  
  
  • Mrs. Miniver
    Mrs. Miniver (film)
    Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright. Based on the fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, the film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture,...
    
    —Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
    
    
  • The Talk of the Town—Otto Meyer
  • This Above All—Walter Thompson
    Walter A. Thompson
    Walter Thompson was an American film editor with 69 film credits from 1930 to 1975. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing for This Above All and for The Nun's Story...
    
    
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.The movie was written by...
    
    —George Amy
    George Amy
    George Amy started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s...
    
    
• 1943 Air Force—George Amy
  George Amy
  George Amy started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s...
  
  
  • Casablanca
    Casablanca (film)
    Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...
    
    —Owen Marks
  • Five Graves to Cairo
    Five Graves to Cairo
    Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. It is one of a number of films based on Lajos Biró's play Színmü négy felvonásban, including Hotel Imperial .-Plot:...
    
    —Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison was an American film editor and producer whose career spanned four decades. For nearly twenty years, from 1935-1954, Harrison was a prolific editor of films for Paramount Pictures, including eleven films with director Mitchell Leisen...
    
    
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)
    For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film...
    
    —Sherman Todd and John Link
  • The Song of Bernadette
    The Song of Bernadette (film)
    The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King....
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
• 1944 Wilson
  Wilson (film)
  Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.The movie was written by Lamar Trotti and directed by Henry King...
  
  —Barbara McLean
  Barbara McLean
  Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
  
  
  • Going My Way
    Going My Way
    Going My Way is a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy-drama about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran . Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was...
    
    —Leroy Stone
  • Janie—Owen Marks
  • None but the Lonely Heart—Roland Gross
  • Since You Went Away
    Since You Went Away
    Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret...
    
    —Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom
• 1945 National Velvet
  National Velvet (film)
  National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....
  
  —Robert J. Kern
  • The Bells of St. Mary's
    The Bells of St. Mary's
    The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 American film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down. It stars Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman...
    
    —Harry Marker
  • The Lost Weekend—Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison was an American film editor and producer whose career spanned four decades. For nearly twenty years, from 1935-1954, Harrison was a prolific editor of films for Paramount Pictures, including eleven films with director Mitchell Leisen...
    
    
  • Objective, Burma!
    Objective, Burma!
    Objective, Burma! is an Oscar-nominated 1945 war film which was loosely based on the six month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War...
    
    —George Amy
    George Amy
    George Amy started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s...
    
    
  • A Song to Remember
    A Song to Remember
    A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin...
    
    —Charles Nelson
• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell, a United States paratrooper who lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States...
  
  —Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966...
  
  
  • It's a Wonderful Life
    It's a Wonderful Life
    It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
    
    —William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck was an American film editor.He was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and won the award for A Place in the Sun . Other important credits include It's a Wonderful Life , Giant , and I Want to Live!...
    
    
  • The Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.The...
    
    —William A. Lyon
  • The Killers
    The Killers (1946 film)
    The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film features Burt Lancaster in his screen debut, as well as Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, and Sam Levene...
    
    —Arthur Hilton
    Arthur Hilton
    Arthur Hilton was a British-born film editor.He was born in London and edited his first film in England in 1928. Shortly after, he emigrated to Hollywood where he worked on such films as the W. C...
    
    
  • The Yearling—Harold Kress
• 1947 Body and Soul
  Body and Soul (1947 film)
  Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxer who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
  
  —Francis Lyon
  Francis D. Lyon
  Francis D. Lyon was an American film director and film editor. He and Robert Parrish won the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....
  
   and Robert Parrish
  Robert Parrish
  Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....
  
  
  • The Bishop's Wife
    The Bishop's Wife
    The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. It was released by RKO. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E...
    
    —Monica Collingwood
  • Gentleman's Agreement
    Gentleman's Agreement
    Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut...
    
    —Harmon Jones
  • Green Dolphin Street
    Green Dolphin Street
    Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Plot summary:In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man...
    
    —George White
    George White (film editor)
    George White first became a Hollywood editor in 1942, spending most of his career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Accomplishments:...
    
    
  • Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out is a 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green.-Plot:The film's opening intertitle reads:...
    
    —Fergus McDonnell
• 1948 The Naked City
  The Naked City
  The Naked City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Jules Dassin. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City, featuring landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge the Whitehall Building and an apartment building on West 83rd...
  
  —Paul Weatherwax
  • Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc (1948 film)
    Joan of Arc is a 1948 Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine, which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the...
    
    —Frank Sullivan
    Frank Sullivan (film editing)
    Frank Sullivan was a film editor who began his work in the 1920s...
    
    
  • Johnny Belinda
    Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
    Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film based on the play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and directed by Jean Negulesco....
    
    —David Weisbart
    David Weisbart
    David M. Weisbart was an American film editor and producer.A native of Los Angeles, California, Weisbart began working in the film industry in 1942 as an editor...
    
    
  • Red River—Christian Nyby
    Christian Nyby
    Christian Nyby was an American television and film director.Born in Los Angeles, California, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s. During this period, he worked on four films for famous director Howard Hawks, of which one led to an Academy Award nomination...
    
    
  • The Red Shoes—Reginald Mills
    Reginald Mills
    Reginald Cuthbert Mills was an English film editor.He graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages in 1934...
    
    
• 1949 Champion
  Champion (1949 film)
  Champion is an American film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by...
  
  —Harry Gerstad
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)
    All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...
    
    —Robert Parrish
    Robert Parrish
    Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....
    
    , Al Clark
  • Battleground
    Battleground (1949 film)
    Battleground is a 1949 American war film that tells the story of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon of Item Company, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. It stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo...
    
    —John Dunning
    John Dunning (film editor)
    John "Jack" D. Dunning was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970...
    
    
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...
    
    —Richard L. Van Enger
    Richard L. Van Enger
    Editor Richard van Enger made his debut as an assistant on Gone with the Wind in 1939. Up until his retirement in 1976, he worked on a myriad of projects - mainly B movies - before moving to television in the 50s where he worked on such shows as Bonanza, The High Chaparral and Alias Smith and Jones...
    
    
  • The Window
    The Window
    The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr. for $210,000 but earned much more, making it a box office hit for RKO Pictures...
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
    

1950s

• 1950 King Solomon's Mines
  King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)
  King Solomon's Mines is a 1950 adventure film loosely based on the 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger and Richard Carlson. It was adapted by Helen Deutsch, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  —Ralph E. Winters
  Ralph E. Winters
  Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
  
  , Conrad A. Nervig
  Conrad A. Nervig
  Conrad Albinus Nervig was an American film editor with 81 film credits....
  
  
  • All About Eve
    All About Eve
    All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...
    
    —Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean
    Barbara McLean was an American film editor with 62 film credits. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the Studio's most conspicuous editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.She won the 1944 Academy...
    
    
  • Annie Get Your Gun
    Annie Get Your Gun (film)
    Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney...
    
    —James E. Newcom
  • Sunset Boulevard—Arthur P. Schmidt
    Arthur P. Schmidt
    Arthur P. Schmidt was an American film editor and producer. He had more than sixty film credits for editing from 1934 through 1962. In the 1950s, Schmidt edited five films directed by Billy Wilder, who has been called one of the great 20th Century filmmakers...
    
    , Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison
    Doane Harrison was an American film editor and producer whose career spanned four decades. For nearly twenty years, from 1935-1954, Harrison was a prolific editor of films for Paramount Pictures, including eleven films with director Mitchell Leisen...
    
    
  • The Third Man
    The Third Man
    The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
    
    —Oswald Hafenrichter
    Oswald Hafenrichter
    Oswald Hafenrichter was a Yugoslavian-born film editor began his career with a series of German films in the early 1930s and some Italian films in the mid-1940s....
    
    
• 1951 A Place in the Sun—William Hornbeck
  William Hornbeck
  William Hornbeck was an American film editor.He was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and won the award for A Place in the Sun . Other important credits include It's a Wonderful Life , Giant , and I Want to Live!...
  
  
  • An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (film)
    An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner...
    
    —Adrienne Fazan
    Adrienne Fazan
    Adrienne Fazan was an American film editor.She first started cutting films in 1933. She worked on many MGM films, including The Tell-Tale Heart , Anchors Aweigh , and Kismet...
    
    
  • Decision Before Dawn
    Decision Before Dawn
    Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II...
    
    —Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...
    
    
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis (1951 film)
    Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's classic 1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography...
    
    —Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
    
    
  • The Well
    The Well (1951 film)
    The Well is a 1951 American film noir which tackled the issue of racial tensions and collective behavior. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.- Plot :...
    
    —Chester Schaeffer
    Chester Schaeffer
    Chester Schaeffer was an American film and television editor with about thirty documentary and feature film credits, often for B movies....
    
    
• 1952 High Noon
  High Noon
  High Noon is a 1952 American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself...
  
  —Elmo Williams
  Elmo Williams
  Elmo Williams is an American film and television editor, director, producer, and executive. His work on the film High Noon received the Academy Award for Film Editing...
  
  , Harry Gerstad
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
    Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)
    Come Back, Little Sheba is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house. The film stars Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth with Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
    
    —Warren Low
  • Flat Top—William Austin
  • The Greatest Show on Earth
    The Greatest Show on Earth
    The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture...
    
    —Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra...
    
    
  • Moulin Rouge
    Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
    Moulin Rouge is a 1952 film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists. The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the city's bohemian sub-culture in and around the...
    
    —Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a notable collaboration with director John Huston on six films between 1951 and 1966...
    
    
• 1953 From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...
  
  —William A. Lyon
  • Crazylegs
    Crazylegs (film)
    Crazylegs is a 1953 film about Elroy Hirsch's football career. In college his unconventional dynamic running style allowed him to change directions in a multitude of ways. The media dubbed him "Crazylegs". The name stuck all through his professional career and life. The bulk of this film is...
    
    —Irvine (Cotton) Warburton
    Cotton Warburton
    Irvine "Cotton" Warburton was an All-American college quarterback who became an Academy Award-winning film editor in the late 20th century.-Biography:Warburton was born October 8, 1911, in San Diego, California, to Margaret Warburton...
    
    
  • The Moon Is Blue
    The Moon Is Blue
    The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, based on his 1951 play of the same title, focuses on a young woman who meets an architect on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and quickly turns his life...
    
    —Otto Ludwig
    Otto Ludwig (film editor)
    Otto Ludwig was a film editor who worked on American and British films.-Partial filmography:*Brown on Resolution *You Can't Cheat an Honest Man...
    
    
  • Roman Holiday—Robert Swink
    Robert Swink
    Robert Swink was an American film editor who worked on nearly sixty projects during a career that spanned forty-six years....
    
    
  • The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
    The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on-screen loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name...
    
    —Everett Douglas
• 1954 On the Waterfront
  On the Waterfront
  On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...
  
  —Gene Milford
  • The Caine Mutiny
    The Caine Mutiny (film)
    The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film...
    
    —William A. Lyon
  • The High and the Mighty
    The High and the Mighty (film)
    The High and the Mighty is a 1954 American "disaster" film directed by William A. Wellman and written by Ernest K. Gann who also wrote the novel on which his screenplay was based. The film's cast was headlined by John Wayne, who was also the project's co-producer...
    
    —Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting...
    
    
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers—Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
    
    
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions, as well as the only science-fiction...
    
    —Elmo Williams
    Elmo Williams
    Elmo Williams is an American film and television editor, director, producer, and executive. His work on the film High Noon received the Academy Award for Film Editing...
    
    
• 1955 Picnic—Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon
  • Blackboard Jungle
    Blackboard Jungle
    Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter.-Plot:...
    
    —Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster was an American film editor with about seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Blackboard Jungle , The Manchurian Candidate , and The Great Escape .Webster was raised in the state of Washington, and was a student at the University of Southern...
    
    
  • The Bridges at Toko-Ri
    The Bridges at Toko-Ri
    The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War. It was made into a motion picture by Paramount Pictures and won the Special Effects Oscar at the 28th Academy Awards...
    
    —Alma Macrorie
  • Oklahoma!—Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
  • The Rose Tattoo—Warren Low
• 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
  Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)
  Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson. It was produced by Michael Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay was written by James...
  
  —Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
  • The Brave One
    The Brave One (1956 film)
    The Brave One is a 1956 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., and Elsa Cárdenas. It tells the story of a young Mexican boy who tries to save his beloved bull Gitano from the bullfighting arena....
    
    —Merrill G. White
  • Giant—William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck was an American film editor.He was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and won the award for A Place in the Sun . Other important credits include It's a Wonderful Life , Giant , and I Want to Live!...
    
    , Philip W. Anderson
    Philip W. Anderson (editor)
    Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than fifty film credits commencing with the 1939 films, Marine Circus and Dark Magic. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for three films: Giant , Sayonara Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than...
    
    , Fred Bohanan
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Somebody Up There Likes Me (film)
    Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 American drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography . The film also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956...
    
    —Albert Akst
    Albert Akst
    Albert Akst was an American musician turned film editor, played saxophone in Meyer Davis Orchestra and on vaudeville until 1930. He became a film cutter of short subjects and later became an editor on 53 feature films, including Forbidden Passage, Johnny Eager, Ziegfeld Follies, Summer Stock,...
    
    
  • The Ten Commandments
    The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
    The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...
    
    —Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens
    Anne Bauchens was an American film editor who is particularly noted for her collaboration over 40 years with the director Cecil B. DeMille. When the Academy Award for Film Editing was created in 1934, Bauchens received one of the three nominations for her editing of Cleopatra...
    
    
• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William...
  
  —Peter Taylor
  Peter Taylor (editor)
  For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.Peter Taylor was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits...
  
  
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)
    The film was based on a real event which took place on October 26, 1881. It was directed by John Sturges and featuring a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris, and the movie's supporting cast included Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet, Martin Milner, Dennis Hopper, Jack Elam, Lee Van...
    
    —Warren Low
  • Pal Joey
    Pal Joey (film)
    Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novak's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin...
    
    —Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
  • Sayonara
    Sayonara
    Sayonara is a 1957 color American film starring Marlon Brando. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an "ace" fighter pilot during the Korean War....
    
    —Arthur P. Schmidt
    Arthur P. Schmidt
    Arthur P. Schmidt was an American film editor and producer. He had more than sixty film credits for editing from 1934 through 1962. In the 1950s, Schmidt edited five films directed by Billy Wilder, who has been called one of the great 20th Century filmmakers...
    
    , Philip W. Anderson
    Philip W. Anderson (editor)
    Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than fifty film credits commencing with the 1939 films, Marine Circus and Dark Magic. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for three films: Giant , Sayonara Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than...
    
    
  • Witness for the Prosecution—Daniel Mandell
    Daniel Mandell
    Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966...
    
    
• 1958 Gigi
  Gigi (1958 film)
  Gigi is a 1958 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette...
  
  —Adrienne Fazan
  Adrienne Fazan
  Adrienne Fazan was an American film editor.She first started cutting films in 1933. She worked on many MGM films, including The Tell-Tale Heart , Anchors Aweigh , and Kismet...
  
  
  • Auntie Mame
    Auntie Mame (film)
    Auntie Mame is a 1958 film based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta...
    
    —William Ziegler
  • Cowboy—William A. Lyon, Al Clark
  • The Defiant Ones
    The Defiant Ones
    The Defiant Ones is a 1958 drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw, and Lon Chaney, Jr...
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
    
  • I Want to Live!
    I Want to Live!
    I Want to Live! is a 1958 film noir produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Robert Wise which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution. It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore...
    
    —William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck was an American film editor.He was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and won the award for A Place in the Sun . Other important credits include It's a Wonderful Life , Giant , and I Want to Live!...
    
    
• 1959 Ben-Hur
  Ben-Hur (1959 film)
  Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...
  
  —Ralph E. Winters
  Ralph E. Winters
  Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
  
  , John D. Dunning
  John Dunning (film editor)
  John "Jack" D. Dunning was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970...
  
  
  • Anatomy of a Murder
    Anatomy of a Murder
    Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom crime drama film. It was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver...
    
    —Louis R. Loeffler
    Louis R. Loeffler
    Louis R. Loeffler was an American film editor. Through his five-decade career, he worked on over one hundred films, including In Old Arizona , In the Meantime, Darling , Laura , The Iron Curtain , How to Marry a Millionaire , River of No Return , and Anatomy of a Murder...
    
    
  • North by Northwest
    North by Northwest
    North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...
    
    —George Tomasini
    George Tomasini
    George Tomasini was an American film editor, born in Springfield, Massachusetts who had a notable collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, editing nine of his movies in the decade 1954-1964...
    
    
  • The Nun's Story
    The Nun's Story (film)
    The Nun's Story is a 1959 Warner Brothers film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathryn Hulme, the story tells of the life of Sister Luke , a young Belgian woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices...
    
    —Walter Thompson
    Walter A. Thompson
    Walter Thompson was an American film editor with 69 film credits from 1930 to 1975. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing for This Above All and for The Nun's Story...
    
    
  • On the Beach
    On the Beach (1959 film)
    On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name. The film features Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins...
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
    

1960s

• 1960 The Apartment
  The Apartment
  The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow-up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and, like its predecessor, was a commercial and critical hit, grossing $25...
  
  —Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell
  Daniel Mandell was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits. His career spanned films from The Turmoil in 1924 to The Fortune Cookie in 1966...
  
  
  • The Alamo
    The Alamo (1960 film)
    The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic released by United Artists. The film was directed by John Wayne, who also starred as Davy Crockett. The cast also includes Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B...
    
    —Stuart Gilmore
  • Inherit the Wind
    Inherit the Wind (1960 film)
    Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer....
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
    
  • Pepe
    Pepe (film)
    Pepe is a 1960 film starring Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably Around the World in Eighty Days, produced by Mike Todd in 1956.The film failed to...
    
    —Viola Lawrence, Al Clark
  • Spartacus—Robert Lawrence
• 1961 West Side Story
  West Side Story (film)
  West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno,...
  
  —Thomas Stanford
  • Fanny—William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
    
    
  • The Guns of Navarone
    The Guns of Navarone (film)
    The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American Action/Adventure war film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley...
    
    —Alan Osbiston
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American drama film dealing with the Holocaust and the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials. It was written by Abby Mann, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy...
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
    
  • The Parent Trap—Philip W. Anderson
    Philip W. Anderson (editor)
    Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than fifty film credits commencing with the 1939 films, Marine Circus and Dark Magic. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for three films: Giant , Sayonara Philip W. Anderson is an American film editor with more than...
    
    
• 1962 Lawrence of Arabia
  Lawrence of Arabia (film)
  Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...
  
  —Anne V. Coates
  Anne V. Coates
  Anne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962...
  
  
  • The Longest Day
    The Longest Day (film)
    The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II....
    
    —Samuel E. Beetley
  • The Manchurian Candidate
    The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
    The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury, and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver...
    
    —Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster was an American film editor with about seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Blackboard Jungle , The Manchurian Candidate , and The Great Escape .Webster was raised in the state of Washington, and was a student at the University of Southern...
    
    
  • The Music Man
    The Music Man (1962 film)
    The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson...
    
    —William Ziegler
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 film starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh...
    
    —John McSweeney, Jr.
• 1963 How the West Was Won
  How the West Was Won (film)
  How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean...
  
  —Harold F. Kress
  Harold F. Kress
  Harold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
  
  
  • The Cardinal
    The Cardinal
    The Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
    
    —Louis R. Loeffler
    Louis R. Loeffler
    Louis R. Loeffler was an American film editor. Through his five-decade career, he worked on over one hundred films, including In Old Arizona , In the Meantime, Darling , Laura , The Iron Curtain , How to Marry a Millionaire , River of No Return , and Anatomy of a Murder...
    
    
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)
    Cleopatra is a 1963 British-American-Swiss epic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy...
    
    —Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...
    
    
  • The Great Escape
    The Great Escape (film)
    The Great Escape is a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough...
    
    —Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster
    Ferris Webster was an American film editor with about seventy-two film credits. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his work on Blackboard Jungle , The Manchurian Candidate , and The Great Escape .Webster was raised in the state of Washington, and was a student at the University of Southern...
    
    
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers...
    
    —Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964...
    
     (posthumous nomination), Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones , sometimes credited as Robert Jones, is a screenwriter and film editor. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Coming Home . As an editor, Jones has had notable collaborations with the directors Arthur Hiller and Hal Ashby...
    
    , Gene Fowler Jr.
    Gene Fowler Jr.
    Gene Fowler Jr. , the eldest son of Gene Fowler, Denver, was a prominent Hollywood film editor. His work included films of Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller and movies like Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , John Cassavetes' A Child is Waiting and Hang 'Em High .He was also the director...
    
    
• 1964 Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins (film)
  Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...
  
  —Cotton Warburton
  Cotton Warburton
  Irvine "Cotton" Warburton was an All-American college quarterback who became an Academy Award-winning film editor in the late 20th century.-Biography:Warburton was born October 8, 1911, in San Diego, California, to Margaret Warburton...
  
  
  • Becket—Anne V. Coates
    Anne V. Coates
    Anne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962...
    
    
  • Father Goose
    Father Goose (film)
    Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...
    
    —Ted J. Kent
  • Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 American thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....
    
    —Michael Luciano
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...
    
    —William Ziegler
• 1965 The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music (film)
  Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...
  
  —William H. Reynolds
  William H. Reynolds
  William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
  
  
  • Cat Ballou
    Cat Ballou
    Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy/Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected...
    
    —Charles Nelson
  • Doctor Zhivago—Norman Savage
  • The Flight of the Phoenix
    The Flight of the Phoenix
    The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves...
    
    —Michael Luciano
  • The Great Race
    The Great Race
    The Great Race is a 1965 slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn,...
    
    —Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
    
    
• 1966 Grand Prix—Fredric Steinkamp
  Fredric Steinkamp
  Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
  
  , Henry Berman, Stewart Linder
  Stu Linder
  Stewart Bridgewater "Stu" Linder was an American film editor with 25 credits. He shared the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1966 film Grand Prix , which was the very first film on which Linder was credited as an editor...
  
  , Frank Santillo
  • Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage
    Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it....
    
    —William B. Murphy
    William B. Murphy
    William B. Murphy was an American film editor who, in the course of a twenty-year career, served as president of American Cinema Editors from 1952 to 1955 and was distinguished in 1966 with ACE's Eddie Award for his work on the science fiction film, Fantastic Voyage, which also earned him an...
    
    
  • The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
    The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
    The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is an American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, the film was directed by Norman Jewison and adapted for the screen by William Rose....
    
    —Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor.-Birth and early years:Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his...
    
    , J. Terry Williams
  • The Sand Pebbles
    The Sand Pebbles (film)
    The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate aboard the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo in 1920s China....
    
    —William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
    
    
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee...
    
    —Sam O'Steen
    Sam O'Steen
    Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994...
    
    
• 1967 In the Heat of the Night—Hal Ashby
  Hal Ashby
  Hal Ashby was an American film director and film editor.-Birth and early years:Born William Hal Ashby in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and his...
  
  
  • Beach Red
    Beach Red
    Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island...
    
    —Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977...
    
    
  • The Dirty Dozen
    The Dirty Dozen
    The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...
    
    —Michael Luciano
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Doctor Dolittle (film)
    Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 American musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It's adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting, primarily The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor...
    
    —Samuel E. Beetly, Marjorie Fowler
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton...
    
    —Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones , sometimes credited as Robert Jones, is a screenwriter and film editor. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Coming Home . As an editor, Jones has had notable collaborations with the directors Arthur Hiller and Hal Ashby...
    
    
• 1968 Bullitt
  Bullitt
  Bullitt is a 1968 American police procedural film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L....
  
  —Frank P. Keller
  Frank P. Keller
  Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977...
  
  
  • Funny Girl
    Funny Girl (film)
    Funny Girl is a 1968 romantic musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title...
    
    —Robert Swink
    Robert Swink
    Robert Swink was an American film editor who worked on nearly sixty projects during a career that spanned forty-six years....
    
    , Maury Winetrobe, William Sands
  • The Odd Couple
    The Odd Couple (film)
    The Odd Couple is a 1968 comedy film written by Neil Simon, based on his play The Odd Couple, directed by Gene Saks, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau...
    
    —Frank Bracht
  • Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)
    Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....
    
    —Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a notable collaboration with director John Huston on six films between 1951 and 1966...
    
    
  • Wild in the Streets
    Wild in the Streets
    Wild in the Streets is a 1968 film featuring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. It was produced by American International Pictures and based on a short story by writer Robert Thom...
    
    —Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
• 1969 Z
  Z (film)
  Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek...
  
  —Françoise Bonnot
  Françoise Bonnot
  Françoise Bonnot is a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits.Bonnot is the daughter of Monique Bonnot, a film editor noted for several films directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In her first film credit, Françoise Bonnot was the assistant to her mother on Melville's 1959 film, Two...
  
  
  • Hello, Dolly!—William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
    
    
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Midnight Cowboy
    Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John...
    
    —Hugh A. Robertson
    Hugh A. Robertson
    Hugh A. Robertson ) was an African-American film director and editor. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Midnight Cowboy , and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the same film.Robertson subsequently edited Gordon Parks' 1971 film Shaft, which was his last credit...
    
    
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria
    The Secret of Santa Vittoria
    The Secret of Santa Vittoria is a 1969 film made by Stanley Kramer Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the novel by Robert Crichton...
    
    —William A. Lyon, Earle Herdan
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?—Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
    
    

1970s

• 1970 Patton
  Patton (film)
  Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...
  
  —Hugh S. Fowler
  Hugh S. Fowler
  Hugh S. Fowler was an American film editor.Fowler spent his virtually his entire editing career at Twentieth Century-Fox. After spending years helping other film editors, including Louis Loeffler, Barbara McLean, William H...
  
  
  • Airport—Stuart Gilmore
  • MASH
    MASH (film)
    MASH is a 1970 American satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise...
    
    —Danford B. Greene
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
    is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...
    
    —James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya
  • Woodstock
    Woodstock (film)
    Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made...
    
    —Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
    
    
• 1971 The French Connection
  The French Connection (film)
  This article is about the 1971 film. For the British fashion label, see French Connection .The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore...
  
  —Gerald B. Greenberg
  Gerald B. Greenberg
  Gerald B. Greenberg is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film The French Connection ....
  
  
  • The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda Strain (film)
    The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. The film is about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed by Robert Wise, the film...
    
    —Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination), John W. Holmes
  • A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange (film)
    A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...
    
    —Bill Butler
  • Kotch
    Kotch
    Kotch is a 1971 American comedy film which tells the story of an elderly man who runs away so as not to be put into a nursing home, and strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenage girl. It stars Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman and Ellen Geer.The film was adapted...
    
    —Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters , born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors.After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 1940s, including several in the Dr...
    
    
  • Summer of '42
    Summer of '42
    Summer of '42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket Island, off the coast of New England, embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Dorothy,...
    
    —Folmar Blangsted
• 1972 Cabaret
  Cabaret (film)
  Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....
  
  —David Bretherton
  David Bretherton
  David Bretherton was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996....
  
  
  • Deliverance
    Deliverance
    Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty in his film debut. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the...
    
    —Tom Priestly
  • The Godfather
    The Godfather
    The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
    
    —William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
    
    , Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner was an Austrian-born American filmmaker who worked as a film editor, sound editor, and producer...
    
    
  • The Hot Rock
    The Hot Rock (film)
    The Hot Rock is a 1972 comic caper film written by William Goldman and directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Redford, George Segal and Moses Gunn. The film was based upon Donald E...
    
    —Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977...
    
    , Fred W. Berger
  • The Poseidon Adventure—Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress
    Harold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
    
    
• 1973 The Sting
  The Sting
  The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Created by...
  
  —William H. Reynolds
  William H. Reynolds
  William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
  
  
  • American Graffiti
    American Graffiti
    American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age film co-written/directed by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford...
    
    —Verna Fields
    Verna Fields
    Verna Fields was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. In the first phase of her career, from 1954 through to about 1970, Fields mostly worked on smaller projects that gained little recognition. She was the sound editor for...
    
    , Marcia Lucas
    Marcia Lucas
    Marcia Lucas is an American film editor.In 1974, Lucas and Verna Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for their work on American Graffiti...
    
    
  • The Day of the Jackal
    The Day of the Jackal (film)
    The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French film, set in August 1963 and based on the novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, it stars Edward Fox as the assassin known only as "the Jackal" who is hired to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.- Synopsis :The film opens...
    
    —Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen
    Ralph Kemplen was a British film editor with more than fifty film credits between 1933 and 1982. Kemplen had a notable collaboration with director John Huston on six films between 1951 and 1966...
    
    
  • The Exorcist
    The Exorcist (film)
    The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...
    
    —Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull (film)
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a 1973 American film directed by Hall Bartlett, adapted from the novella by Richard Bach. The film, which has no human actors on screen, tells the story of a young seabird who, after being outcast by his stern flock, goes on an odyssey to discover how to break the...
    
    —Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller
    Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977...
    
    , James Galloway
• 1974 The Towering Inferno
  The Towering Inferno
  The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.A co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros...
  
  —Harold F. Kress
  Harold F. Kress
  Harold F. Kress was an American film editor best known for the 1962 film How the West Was Won and the 1974 film The Towering Inferno.-Biography:...
  
  , Carl Kress
  • Blazing Saddles
    Blazing Saddles
    Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft. The movie was nominated for three...
    
    —John C. Howard, Danford Greene
  • Chinatown—Sam O'Steen
    Sam O'Steen
    Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994...
    
    
  • Earthquake
    Earthquake (film)
    Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations...
    
    —Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer
    Dorothy Spencer was an American film editor. Nominated for an Academy Award on several occasions she is remembered for editing several of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach and what film critic Roger Ebert calls, "Ford's greatest Western," My Darling Clementine.She was...
    
    
  • The Longest Yard—Michael Luciano
• 1975 Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
  —Verna Fields
  Verna Fields
  Verna Fields was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. In the first phase of her career, from 1954 through to about 1970, Fields mostly worked on smaller projects that gained little recognition. She was the sound editor for...
  
  
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...
    
    —Dede Allen
    Dede Allen
    Dorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios, and one of cinema's all-time celebrated 'auteur' film editors....
    
    
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    The Man Who Would Be King (film)
    The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling .The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of...
    
    —Russell Lloyd
    Russell Lloyd (film editor)
    Russell Lloyd was a British-born American film editor who amassed fifty credits on feature films. Lloyd had a notable collaboration with the director John Huston that extended over eleven films...
    
    
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey....
    
    —Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
    Sheldon Kahn
    Sheldon F. Kahn is a film editor and producer. He was jointly awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, with Lynzee Klingman and Richard Chew, for their work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.-Filmography:* Ghostbusters...
    
    
  • Three Days of the Condor
    Three Days of the Condor
    Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American action thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr...
    
    —Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
    
    , Don Guidice
• 1976 Rocky
  Rocky
  Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
  
  —Richard Halsey
  Richard Halsey
  Richard Halsey is an American film editor with more than 60 credits from 1970 onwards. An alumnus of Hollywood High School, he won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 49th Academy Awards for editing Rocky with Scott Conrad and has been nominated for one BAFTA and one Emmy Award. He...
  
  , Scott Conrad
  • All the President's Men
    All the President's Men (film)
    All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...
    
    —Robert L. Wolfe
  • Bound for Glory—Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones , sometimes credited as Robert Jones, is a screenwriter and film editor. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Coming Home . As an editor, Jones has had notable collaborations with the directors Arthur Hiller and Hal Ashby...
    
    , Pembroke J. Herring
  • Network
    Network (film)
    Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet...
    
    —Alan Heim
    Alan Heim
    Alan Heim is an American film editor with more than thirty feature-film credits. He had an extended collaboration with the director Bob Fosse; Heim's editing of Fosse's film, All That Jazz , was honored by the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American...
    
    
  • Two-Minute Warning
    Two-Minute Warning
    Two-Minute Warning is a 1976 suspense and action film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, and David Janssen. It was based on the novel of the same name written by George La Fountaine, Sr...
    
    —Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann
• 1977 Star Wars
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...
  
  —Paul Hirsch
  Paul Hirsch (film editor)
  Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor.A native of New York City, after graduating from Columbia he began to pursue a career in editing. In the late 1960s, while editing trailers in NYC, he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma...
  
  , Marcia Lucas
  Marcia Lucas
  Marcia Lucas is an American film editor.In 1974, Lucas and Verna Fields were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for their work on American Graffiti...
  
  , Richard Chew
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey...
    
    —Michael Kahn
    Michael Kahn (film editor)
    Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
    
    
  • Julia—Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
    
    , Marcel Durham
  • Smokey and the Bandit
    Smokey and the Bandit
    Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. It inspired several other trucking films, including two sequels, Smokey and the Bandit II, and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3...
    
    —Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
  • The Turning Point
    The Turning Point (1977 film)
    The Turning Point is a 1977 film written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell.-Plot:This film tells the story of...
    
    —William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds
    William H. Reynolds was an American film editor whose career spanned six decades. His credits include such notable films as The Sound of Music, The Godfather, The Sting, and The Turning Point...
    
    
• 1978 The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...
  
  —Peter Zinner
  Peter Zinner
  Peter Zinner was an Austrian-born American filmmaker who worked as a film editor, sound editor, and producer...
  
  
  • The Boys from Brazil
    The Boys from Brazil (film)
    The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British/American science fiction/thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, with James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles...
    
    —Robert E. Swink
  • Coming Home—Don Zimmerman
    Don Zimmerman (film editor)
    Don Zimmerman is an American film editor with more than 40 credits from 1978 onwards. His first job as lead editor was the film Coming Home, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award at the 51st Academy Awards.-Filmography:...
    
    
  • Midnight Express
    Midnight Express (film)
    Released on October 6, 1978, the soundtrack to Midnight Express was composed by Italian synth-pioneer Giorgio Moroder. The score won the Academy Award for Best Original Score of 1978.Side A:#Chase – Giorgio Moroder...
    
    —Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
  • Superman—Stuart Baird
    Stuart Baird
    Stuart Baird is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over twenty major motion pictures.-Life and career:...
    
    
• 1979 All That Jazz
  All That Jazz
  All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...
  
  —Alan Heim
  Alan Heim
  Alan Heim is an American film editor with more than thirty feature-film credits. He had an extended collaboration with the director Bob Fosse; Heim's editing of Fosse's film, All That Jazz , was honored by the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American...
  
  
  • Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
    
    —Richard Marks
    Richard Marks
    Richard Marks is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration , he has edited all of director James L...
    
    , Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
    
    , Gerald B. Greenberg
    Gerald B. Greenberg
    Gerald B. Greenberg is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film The French Connection ....
    
    , Lisa Fruchtman
  • The Black Stallion
    The Black Stallion (film)
    The Black Stallion is a 1979 American film based on the 1941 classic children's novel The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, who is shipwrecked on a desert island, together with a wild Arabian stallion whom he befriends...
    
    —Robert Dalva
    Robert Dalva
    Robert Dalva is a noted American film editor. Filmography as editor includes The Black Stallion, Raising Cain, Jumanji, Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo...
    
    
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son...
    
    —Gerald B. Greenberg
    Gerald B. Greenberg
    Gerald B. Greenberg is an American film editor who received both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film The French Connection ....
    
    
  • The Rose
    The Rose (film)
    The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...
    
    —Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O'Meara

1980s

• 1980 Raging Bull—Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
  
  
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
    Coal Miner's Daughter
    Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music icon Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The film was...
    
    —Arthur Schmidt
  • The Competition
    The Competition (film)
    The Competition is a 1980 American drama film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving, directed by Joel Oliansky.-Plot:Paul Dietrich is an extremely gifted but disillusioned classical pianist, running out of time to prove himself...
    
    —David Blewitt
    David Blewitt
    David Edward Blewitt was an American Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning film editor, whose credits included Ghostbusters in 1984. Blewitt earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on The Competition in 1980....
    
    
  • The Elephant Man
    The Elephant Man (film)
    The Elephant Man is a 1980 American drama film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick , a severely deformed man in 19th century London...
    
    —Anne V. Coates
    Anne V. Coates
    Anne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962...
    
    
  • Fame—Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
• 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
  —Michael Kahn
  Michael Kahn (film editor)
  Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
  
  
  • Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
    
    —Terry Rawlings
    Terry Rawlings
    Terry Rawlings is a British film editor and sound editor with several BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination...
    
    
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
    The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)
    The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the novel of the same title by John Fowles...
    
    —John Bloom
    John Bloom (film editor)
    John Bloom is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator. He is the brother of actress Claire Bloom....
    
    
  • On Golden Pond
    On Golden Pond (1981 film)
    On Golden Pond is a 1981 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his 1979 play of the same title. Henry Fonda won the Academy Award in what was his final film role. Co-star Katharine Hepburn also received an Oscar, as did Thompson for his...
    
    —Robert L. Wolfe (posthumous nomination)
  • Reds—Dede Allen
    Dede Allen
    Dorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios, and one of cinema's all-time celebrated 'auteur' film editors....
    
    , Craig McKay
    Craig McKay (film editor)
    Craig McKay, born in New York's Hudson Valley, is a feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he has edited more...
    
    
• 1982 Gandhi
  Gandhi (film)
  Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...
  
  —John Bloom
  John Bloom (film editor)
  John Bloom is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator. He is the brother of actress Claire Bloom....
  
  
  • Das Boot
    Das Boot
    Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann...
    
    —Hannes Nikel
    Hannes Nikel
    Johannes Maria Bernhard Nikel , better known as Hannes Nikel, was a German film editor.-Life and work:Hannes Nikel was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for his work in the film Das Boot ....
    
    
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote...
    
    —Carol Littleton
    Carol Littleton
    Carol Littleton is an American feature film editor. Her work includes E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Big Chill and Body Heat...
    
    
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
    An Officer and a Gentleman
    A Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him. It was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford...
    
    —Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner was an Austrian-born American filmmaker who worked as a film editor, sound editor, and producer...
    
    
  • Tootsie
    Tootsie
    Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, with a supporting cast that includes Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman,...
    
    —Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
    
    , William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp is an American film editor with more than 20 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from Tootsie through the director's last film, The Interpreter .-Relative assistance:Steinkamp's first...
    
    
• 1983 The Right Stuff—Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf
  • Blue Thunder
    Blue Thunder
    Blue Thunder is a 1983 feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider...
    
    —Frank Morriss
    Frank Morriss
    Frank E. Morriss is a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968. Morriss was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss has been nominated twice...
    
    , Edward Abroms
  • Flashdance
    Flashdance
    Another song used in the film, "Maniac", was also nominated for an Academy Award. It was written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky, and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so that it could be used in Flashdance...
    
    —Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
  • Silkwood
    Silkwood
    Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she...
    
    —Sam O'Steen
    Sam O'Steen
    Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994...
    
    
  • Terms of Endearment
    Terms of Endearment
    Terms of Endearment is a 1983 romantic comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson...
    
    —Richard Marks
    Richard Marks
    Richard Marks is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration , he has edited all of director James L...
    
    
• 1984 The Killing Fields
  The Killing Fields (film)
  The Killing Fields is a 1984 British drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. The film, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Sam Waterston as...
  
  —Jim Clark
  Jim Clark (film editor)
  Jim Clark is a British film editor and director.Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. Clark moved to London, and in 1951 he began work as an assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios. Subsequently, Clark worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by...
  
  
  • Amadeus
    Amadeus (film)
    Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...
    
    —Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
  • The Cotton Club
    The Cotton Club (film)
    The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a famed Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.The movie was co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines...
    
    —Barry Malkin
    Barry Malkin
    Barry M. Malkin is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He is noted for his extended collaboration with director Francis Ford Coppola, having edited most of Coppola's films from 1969-1997...
    
    , Robert O. Lovett
  • A Passage to India
    A Passage to India (film)
    A Passage to India is a 1984 drama film written and directed by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster and the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau that was inspired by the novel....
    
    —David Lean
    David Lean
    Sir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...
    
    
  • Romancing the Stone
    Romancing the Stone
    Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American action-adventure romantic comedy. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film was followed by a 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile....
    
    —Donn Cambern
    Donn Cambern
    Donn Cambern is a film editor. Cambern was born in Los Angeles, California, and obtained a B.A. in music from UCLA. Cambern is presently senior filmmaker-in-residence at the American Film Institute Conservatory....
    
    , Frank Morriss
    Frank Morriss
    Frank E. Morriss is a film and television editor with more than fifty film and television program credits dating from 1968. Morriss was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss has been nominated twice...
    
    
• 1985 Witness
  Witness (1985 film)
  Witness is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. The screenplay by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W...
  
  —Thom Noble
  Thom Noble
  Thom Noble is a British film editor who won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the film Witness , and who was nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Thelma and Louise ....
  
  
  • A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line (film)
    A Chorus Line is a 1985 musical film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante...
    
    —John Bloom
    John Bloom (film editor)
    John Bloom is a British film editor with nearly fifty film credits commencing with the 1960 film, The Impersonator. He is the brother of actress Claire Bloom....
    
    
  • Out of Africa—Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp
    Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor with more than 40 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? through Sabrina .Steinkamp began his career working part-time in the...
    
    , William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp is an American film editor with more than 20 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from Tootsie through the director's last film, The Interpreter .-Relative assistance:Steinkamp's first...
    
    , Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn
    Sheldon Kahn
    Sheldon F. Kahn is a film editor and producer. He was jointly awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, with Lynzee Klingman and Richard Chew, for their work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.-Filmography:* Ghostbusters...
    
    
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Prizzi's Honor
    Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American black comedy film directed by John Huston. It stars Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia and Anjelica Huston.The film was adapted by Richard Condon and Janet Roach from Condon's novel of the same name...
    
    —Rudi Fehr
    Rudi Fehr
    Rudi Fehr was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive. He had more than thirty credits as an editor, and worked for more than twenty years as the head of production at the Warner Brothers studio....
    
    , Kaja Fehr
  • Runaway Train
    Runaway Train (film)
    Runaway Train is a 1985 film about two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. It stars Jon Voight as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts as Buck, John P. Ryan as Associate Warden Ranken and Rebecca De Mornay as Sara...
    
    —Henry Richardson
• 1986 Platoon
  Platoon (film)
  Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....
  
  —Claire Simpson
  Claire Simpson
  Claire Simpson is a British film editor whose work has been honored with an Academy Award and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for The Constant Gardener. She was mentored by Dede Allen and in turn mentored such notable and renowned Academy Award winning film editors such as Pietro Scalia, David...
  
  
  • Aliens
    Aliens (film)
    Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...
    
    —Ray Lovejoy
    Ray Lovejoy
    Ray Lovejoy was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits. He had a notable collaboration with director Peter Yates that extended over six films including The Dresser , which was nominated for numerous BAFTA Awards and Academy Awards.Lovejoy was an assistant to editor Anne V...
    
    
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner...
    
    —Susan E. Morse
    Susan E. Morse
    Susan E. Morse is an American film editor with more than 30 film credits. She had a notable collaboration with director Woody Allen from 1977-1998...
    
    
  • The Mission—Jim Clark
    Jim Clark (film editor)
    Jim Clark is a British film editor and director.Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. Clark moved to London, and in 1951 he began work as an assistant editor at the legendary Ealing Studios. Subsequently, Clark worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by...
    
    
  • Top Gun
    Top Gun
    Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
    
    —Billy Weber
    Billy Weber
    Billy Weber is an American film editor with more than twenty film credits dating from Days of Heaven .One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, Badlands . Badlands was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film Days...
    
    , Chris Lebenzon
    Chris Lebenzon
    Christopher John Lebenzon is an American film editor with more than 36 film credits dating from 1976. Lebenzon has been nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films Top Gun and Crimson Tide . He has become a member of the American Cinema Editors for his work on Sweeney Todd and...
    
    
• 1987 The Last Emperor
  The Last Emperor
  The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures...
  
  —Gabriella Cristiani
  Gabriella Cristiani
  Gabriella Cristiani is an Italian film editor with about twenty feature film credits. She has had a notable collaboration with director Bernardo Bertolucci. Early in her career she assisted editor Franco Arcalli on two of Bertolucci's films, Last Tango in Paris and 1900...
  
  
  • Broadcast News
    Broadcast News (film)
    Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer , who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival...
    
    —Richard Marks
    Richard Marks
    Richard Marks is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration , he has edited all of director James L...
    
    
  • Empire of the Sun
    Empire of the Sun (film)
    Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...
    
    —Michael Kahn
    Michael Kahn (film editor)
    Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
    
    
  • Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American thriller blended with horror, directed by Adrian Lyne and stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. The film centers around a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end, resulting in emotional blackmail, stalking...
    
    —Michael Kahn
    Michael Kahn (film editor)
    Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
    
    , Peter E. Berger
    Peter E. Berger
    Peter E. Berger was a film editor. He won the 1989 BAFTA for Best Editing for Fatal Attraction with Michael Kahn. He also received Academy Award and American Cinema Editors nominations in the previous year for that work....
    
    
  • RoboCop
    RoboCop
    RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...
    
    —Frank J. Urioste
    Frank J. Urioste
    Frank Jospeh Urioste is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for RoboCop , Die Hard , and Basic Instinct .In addition to his work as an editor, Urioste served on the Board of...
    
    
• 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...
  
  —Arthur Schmidt
  • Die Hard
    Die Hard
    Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which...
    
    —Frank J. Urioste
    Frank J. Urioste
    Frank Jospeh Urioste is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for RoboCop , Die Hard , and Basic Instinct .In addition to his work as an editor, Urioste served on the Board of...
    
    , John F. Link
  • Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
    Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
    Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey. It tells the true-life story of her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards....
    
    —Stuart Baird
    Stuart Baird
    Stuart Baird is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over twenty major motion pictures.-Life and career:...
    
    
  • Mississippi Burning
    Mississippi Burning
    Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964. The film focuses on two fictional FBI agents who investigate the murders...
    
    —Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
  • Rain Man
    Rain Man
    Rain Man is a 1988 drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son,...
    
    —Stu Linder
    Stu Linder
    Stewart Bridgewater "Stu" Linder was an American film editor with 25 credits. He shared the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1966 film Grand Prix , which was the very first film on which Linder was credited as an editor...
    
    
• 1989 Born on the Fourth of July
  Born on the Fourth of July (film)
  Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...
  
  —David Brenner
  David Brenner (editor)
  David Brenner is an American film editor best known for having been one of director Oliver Stone's 'hot shot' group of up-and-coming film editors....
  
  , Joe Hutshing
  Joe Hutshing
  Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe...
  
  
  • Driving Miss Daisy
    Driving Miss Daisy
    Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same name. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy...
    
    —Mark Warner
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 American romantic drama musical film written and directed by Steve Kloves, and starring real life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge jazz pianists in Seattle...
    
    —William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp is an American film editor with more than 20 film credits. He had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Sydney Pollack, editing nearly all of Pollack's films from Tootsie through the director's last film, The Interpreter .-Relative assistance:Steinkamp's first...
    
    
  • Glory—Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum is a film editor who has edited close to twenty films. He has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Edward Zwick, and has edited all of his films since Glory...
    
    
  • The Bear (L'Ours) (France)—Noëlle Boisson

1990s

• 1990 Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...
  
  —Neil Travis
  Neil Travis
  Neil Travis is an American film and television editor with about 28 film credits dating from 1970.Travis was born in Los Angeles, California, and received a bachelor's degree in film and theater arts from the University of California, Los Angeles....
  
  
  • Ghost
    Ghost (film)
    Ghost is a 1990 romantic drama film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. It was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker.-Plot:...
    
    —Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
    
    
  • The Godfather Part III
    The Godfather Part III
    The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American gangster film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin who tries to legitimize his criminal empire...
    
    —Barry Malkin
    Barry Malkin
    Barry M. Malkin is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He is noted for his extended collaboration with director Francis Ford Coppola, having edited most of Coppola's films from 1969-1997...
    
    , Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
    
    
  • Goodfellas
    Goodfellas
    Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese...
    
    —Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
    
    
  • The Hunt for Red October
    The Hunt for Red October (film)
    The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan...
    
    —Dennis Virkler
    Dennis Virkler
    Dennis Virkler is an American film editor with more than forty credits dating from 1973. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.-Filmography :...
    
    , John Wright
    John Wright (film editor)
    John Wright is an ACE-certified film editor.Wright has received two Academy Awards nominations for his work on The Hunt for Red October and Speed...
    
    
• 1991 JFK
  JFK (film)
  JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
  
  —Joe Hutshing
  Joe Hutshing
  Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe...
  
  , Pietro Scalia
  Pietro Scalia
  Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
  
  
  • The Commitments
    The Commitments (film)
    The Commitments , the soundtrack for the film, was released on 13 Aug 1991. "Mustang Sally" was released as a single. Most of the songs on the album are performed by the cast band, but two are by Irish singer Niamh Kavanagh.-Track listing:-Chart positions:-The Commitments, Vol...
    
    —Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
  • The Silence of the Lambs—Craig McKay
    Craig McKay (film editor)
    Craig McKay, born in New York's Hudson Valley, is a feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he has edited more...
    
    
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr.. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong...
    
    —Conrad Buff
    Conrad Buff
    Conrad Buff is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits since 1985. Buff is known for winning an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and an ACE Eddie Award for Titanic ; the awards were shared with his co-editors James Cameron and Richard A. Harris...
    
    , Mark Goldblatt
    Mark Goldblatt
    Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominated, American film editor, and director. A graduate of the London Film School, he is a member, and a former president, of the American Cinema Editors, or ACE society, as well as, a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...
    
    , Richard A. Harris
    Richard A. Harris
    Richard A. Harris is a film editor with a career spanning nearly forty years. He graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California in 1956.-Awards:...
    
    
  • Thelma & Louise—Thom Noble
    Thom Noble
    Thom Noble is a British film editor who won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the film Witness , and who was nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Thelma and Louise ....
    
    
• 1992 Unforgiven
  Unforgiven
  Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming...
  
  —Joel Cox
  Joel Cox
  Joel Cox is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.-Life and career:Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest . He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961.His first film as an assistant editor was The...
  
  
  • Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct is a 1992 erotic thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone....
    
    —Frank J. Urioste
    Frank J. Urioste
    Frank Jospeh Urioste is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for RoboCop , Die Hard , and Basic Instinct .In addition to his work as an editor, Urioste served on the Board of...
    
    
  • The Crying Game
    The Crying Game
    The Crying Game is a 1992 psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles...
    
    —Kant Pan
    Kant Pan
    Kant Pan is a sound and film editor. At the beginning of his career he worked as an assistant film editor for Giro City, Clockwise, Never Say Never Again and also David Cronenberg's The Fly. Later, working from London, UK, he worked as a sound editor on Wish You Were Here, Dangerous Liaisons and...
    
    
  • A Few Good Men
    A Few Good Men (film)
    A Few Good Men is a 1992 drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. It was adapted for the screen by Aaron Sorkin from his play of the same name. A courtroom drama, the film revolves around the trial of two U.S...
    
    —Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton (film editor)
    Robert Leighton is a British film editor who resides in the United States. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the feature film, A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicolson and Demi Moore. He has had an extended collaboration with film director Rob Reiner over...
    
    
  • The Player
    The Player
    The Player is a 1992 American satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name....
    
    —Geraldine Peroni
    Geraldine Peroni
    Geraldine Peroni was an American film editor who was best known for working with Robert Altman.-Life and career:...
    
    
• 1993 Schindler's List
  Schindler's List
  Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...
  
  —Michael Kahn
  Michael Kahn (film editor)
  Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
  
  
  • The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (1993 film)
    The Fugitive is a 1993 American thriller film based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was one of the few movies associated with a television series to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best...
    
    —Dennis Virkler
    Dennis Virkler
    Dennis Virkler is an American film editor with more than forty credits dating from 1973. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.-Filmography :...
    
    , David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brochu, Richard Nord, Dov Hoenig
  • In the Line of Fire
    In the Line of Fire
    In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American thriller film about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him...
    
    —Anne V. Coates
    Anne V. Coates
    Anne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962...
    
    
  • In the Name of the Father—Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
  • The Piano
    The Piano
    The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
    
    —Veronika Jenet
• 1994 Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...
  
  —Arthur Schmidt
  • Hoop Dreams
    Hoop Dreams
    Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players....
    
    —Frederick Marx
    Frederick Marx
    Frederick Marx is an Oscar and Emmy nominated producer/director. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. Frederick Marx achieved international notoriety for his Oscar nominated film Hoop...
    
    , Steve James
    Steve James (producer)
    Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine...
    
    , William Haugse
  • Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction (film)
    Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
    
    —Sally Menke
    Sally Menke
    Sally JoAnne Menke was an American film editor with more than 20 film credits since 1984. She had a long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino, having edited all of his films...
    
    
  • The Shawshank Redemption
    The Shawshank Redemption
    The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman....
    
    —Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Film Editing.- Career :...
    
    
  • Speed—John Wright
    John Wright (film editor)
    John Wright is an ACE-certified film editor.Wright has received two Academy Awards nominations for his work on The Hunt for Red October and Speed...
    
    
• 1995 Apollo 13
  Apollo 13 (film)
  Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...
  
  —Mike Hill
  Mike Hill (film editor)
  Mike Hill, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hill and his editing partner Dan Hanley have had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift .Hill was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and...
  
  , Daniel P. Hanley
  Daniel P. Hanley
  Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hanley and his editing partner Mike Hill have had a notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift...
  
  
  • Babe
    Babe (film)
    Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...
    
    —Marcus D'Arcy
    Marcus D'Arcy
    Marcus D'Arcy is a film editor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing in 1995 for his work on Babe.-Selected filmography:* Babe * Swimming Upstream * Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid -External links:...
    
    , Jay Friedkin
  • Braveheart
    Braveheart
    Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...
    
    —Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum is a film editor who has edited close to twenty films. He has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Edward Zwick, and has edited all of his films since Glory...
    
    
  • Crimson Tide
    Crimson Tide (film)
    The film has uncredited additional writing by Quentin Tarantino, much of it being the pop-culture reference-laden dialogue.The U.S. Navy objected to many of the elements in the script — particularly the aspect of mutiny on board a U.S. naval vessel — and as such, the film was produced...
    
    —Chris Lebenzon
    Chris Lebenzon
    Christopher John Lebenzon is an American film editor with more than 36 film credits dating from 1976. Lebenzon has been nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films Top Gun and Crimson Tide . He has become a member of the American Cinema Editors for his work on Sweeney Todd and...
    
    
  • Seven
    Seven (film)
    Seven is a 1995 American thriller film, which also contains horror and neo-noir elements, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was distributed by New Line Cinema and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R...
    
    —Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Film Editing.- Career :...
    
    
• 1996 The English Patient
  The English Patient (film)
  The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...
  
  —Walter Murch
  Walter Murch
  Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
  
  
  • Evita
    Evita (film)
    Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. It starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce...
    
    —Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling
    Gerry Hambling is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor...
    
    
  • Fargo
    Fargo (film)
    Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...
    
    —Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (as Roderick Jaynes)
  • Jerry Maguire
    Jerry Maguire
    Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding, Jr. It was written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe...
    
    —Joe Hutshing
    Joe Hutshing
    Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe...
    
    
  • Shine
    Shine (film)
    Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris...
    
    —Pip Karmel
    Pip Karmel
    Philippa Karmel is an Australian filmmaker. As a film editor, she has worked exclusively with director Scott Hicks in a notable collaboration from 1988 through 2007; their work together includes the widely recognized film Shine...
    
    
• 1997 Titanic
  Titanic (1997 film)
  Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
  
  —Conrad Buff
  Conrad Buff
  Conrad Buff is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits since 1985. Buff is known for winning an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and an ACE Eddie Award for Titanic ; the awards were shared with his co-editors James Cameron and Richard A. Harris...
  
  , James Cameron
  James Cameron
  James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...
  
  , Richard A. Harris
  Richard A. Harris
  Richard A. Harris is a film editor with a career spanning nearly forty years. He graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California in 1956.-Awards:...
  
  
  • Air Force One
    Air Force One (film)
    Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle...
    
    —Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Film Editing.- Career :...
    
    
  • As Good as It Gets
    As Good as It Gets
    As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with an asthmatic son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was...
    
    —Richard Marks
    Richard Marks
    Richard Marks is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration , he has edited all of director James L...
    
    
  • Good Will Hunting
    Good Will Hunting
    Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård...
    
    —Pietro Scalia
    Pietro Scalia
    Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
    
    
  • L.A. Confidential
    L.A. Confidential (film)
    L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...
    
    —Peter Honess
    Peter Honess
    Peter Honess is a British film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973. Honess received the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on L.A. Confidential....
    
    
• 1998 Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan
  Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....
  
  —Michael Kahn
  Michael Kahn (film editor)
  Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
  
  
  • Out of Sight
    Out of Sight
    Out of Sight is a 1998 American crime film. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was released on June 26, 1998. It was nominated for two...
    
    —Anne V. Coates
    Anne V. Coates
    Anne Voase Coates is a British film editor with a more than 40-year long career in film editing. She is perhaps best known as the editor of director David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia in 1962...
    
    
  • Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British-American comedy film directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....
    
    —David Gamble
  • The Thin Red Line
    The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
    The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...
    
    —Billy Weber
    Billy Weber
    Billy Weber is an American film editor with more than twenty film credits dating from Days of Heaven .One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, Badlands . Badlands was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film Days...
    
    , Leslie Jones
    Leslie Jones (editor)
    Leslie Jones is an American film editor with more than a dozen film credits and nominations for several major film editing awards.Jones is the daughter of the film editor Robert C. Jones and the granddaughter of the editor Harmon Jones, each of whom has been nominated for an Academy Award for editing...
    
    , Saar Klein
    Saar Klein
    Saar Klein is an American film editor who has been nominated twice for Academy Awards , and who received an ACE Eddie Award for editing the latter film....
    
    
  • Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...
    
    —Simona Paggi
    Simona Paggi
    Simona Paggi is an Italian film editor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for her work in the film Life Is Beautiful . She won the David di Donatello for Best Editing for her work in The Stolen Children...
    
    

With the rise of digital non-linear editing system

Non-linear editing system

In video, a non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing digital audio workstation system which can perform random access non-destructive editing on the source material...

s, the award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999.

• 1999 The Matrix
  The Matrix
  The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
  
  —Zach Staenberg
  Zach Staenberg
  Zach Staenberg is a film editor best known for the Matrix Trilogy. Staenberg won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of The Matrix...
  
  
  • American Beauty
    American Beauty (film)
    American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
    
    —Tariq Anwar
  • The Cider House Rules
    The Cider House Rules (film)
    The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four other nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards...
    
    —Lisa Zeno Churgin
    Lisa Zeno Churgin
    Lisa Zeno Churgin is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules . Since 2002, Churgin has also served as the president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild...
    
    
  • The Insider
    The Insider (film)
    The Insider is a 1999 film based on the true story of a 60 Minutes television series segment, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because of objections by CBS’ then-owner, Laurence Tisch, who...
    
    —William Goldenberg
    William Goldenberg
    William Goldenberg is a film editor with more than twenty credits since 1992. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films Seabiscuit and The Insider...
    
    , Paul Rubell
    Paul Rubell
    Paul Rubell is a film editor. His career spans 25 years in both film and television.Rubell obtained his bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Rubell worked for a time with editor Lou Lombardo. His first editing credit was for the film The Final Terror...
    
    , David Rosenbloom
    David Rosenbloom
    David Rosenbloom is a film and television editor with more than 20 film credits, as well as many television editing and directing credits. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and the American Cinema Editors "Eddie" for The Insider ....
    
    
  • The Sixth Sense
    The Sixth Sense
    The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear , a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him...
    
    —Andrew Mondshein
    Andrew Mondshein
    Andrew S. Mondshein is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits. He was widely recognized for his editing of the film The Sixth Sense Andrew S. Mondshein (born 1957) is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits. He was widely recognized for his editing of the film The...
    
    

2000s

• 2000
  73rd Academy Awards
  The 73rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 2000 and was held on March 25, 2001. It was the last Academy Awards to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium...
  
    Traffic
  Traffic (2000 film)
  Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the...
  
  —Stephen Mirrione
  Stephen Mirrione
  Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic .-Life and career:...
  
  
  • Almost Famous
    Almost Famous
    Almost Famous is a 2000 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and telling the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater , and his efforts to get his first cover story published...
    
    —Joe Hutshing
    Joe Hutshing
    Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe...
    
    , Saar Klein
    Saar Klein
    Saar Klein is an American film editor who has been nominated twice for Academy Awards , and who received an ACE Eddie Award for editing the latter film....
    
    
  • Gladiator
    Gladiator (2000 film)
    Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...
    
    —Pietro Scalia
    Pietro Scalia
    Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
    
    
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...
    
    —Tim Squyres
    Tim Squyres
    Tim Squyres is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. Squyres has had an extended collaboration with the Taiwanese director Ang Lee, having edited all but one of Lee's feature films....
    
    
  • Wonder Boys
    Wonder Boys (film)
    Wonder Boys is a dark comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same title by Michael Chabon. Directed by Curtis Hanson, it stars Michael Douglas as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university...
    
    —Dede Allen
    Dede Allen
    Dorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios, and one of cinema's all-time celebrated 'auteur' film editors....
    
    

• 2001
  74th Academy Awards
  The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2001 and took place March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. It was the first ceremony to take place...
  
    Black Hawk Down—Pietro Scalia
  Pietro Scalia
  Pietro Scalia is an Italian-American film editor.-Life and career:He was born in Catania , but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education...
  
  
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring—John Gilbert
    John Gilbert (film editor)
    John Gilbert is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand. He was nominated for three major awards for the editing of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring : an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and an ACE Eddie Award...
    
    
  • A Beautiful Mind
    A Beautiful Mind (film)
    A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar...
    
    —Mike Hill
    Mike Hill (film editor)
    Mike Hill, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hill and his editing partner Dan Hanley have had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift .Hill was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and...
    
    , Daniel P. Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hanley and his editing partner Mike Hill have had a notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift...
    
    
  • Memento—Dody Dorn
    Dody Dorn
    Dody Dorn born 20 April 1955 is an American film and sound editor best known for working with director Christopher Nolan on several films including Memento...
    
    
  • Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
    
    —Jill Bilcock
    Jill Bilcock
    Jill Bilcock is an Australian film editor.Bilcock was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a graduate of the Swinburne College of Technology. She won the 2002 Eddie Award for Moulin Rouge!, for which she also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing...
    
    

• 2002
  75th Academy Awards
  The 75th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted for the second time by Steve Martin....
  
   Chicago
  Chicago (2002 film)
  Chicago is a 2002 musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz-age Chicago....
  
  —Martin Walsh
  Martin Walsh
  Martin Walsh is a film editor with more than 30 film credits dating from 1985. Walsh won the Academy Award for Film Editing and the ACE Eddie Award for the film Chicago...
  
  
  • Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York
    Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...
    
    —Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
    
    
  • The Hours
    The Hours (film)
    The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham....
    
    —Peter Boyle
    Peter Boyle (film editor)
    Peter Boyle is an English film editor. His work on the film The Hours was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the ACE Eddie.Boyle has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors....
    
    
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers—Michael Horton
    Michael J. Horton
    Michael J. Horton is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers that was directed by Peter Jackson....
    
    
  • The Pianist
    The Pianist (2002 film)
    The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
    
    —Hervé de Luze
    Hervé de Luze
    Hervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates , including the much honored...
    
    

• 2003
  76th Academy Awards
  The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2003 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 29, 2004 . The show was produced by Joe Roth and was hosted for the eighth time by comedian Billy Crystal.The...
  
   The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...
  
  —Jamie Selkirk
  Jamie Selkirk
  Jamie Selkirk is a film editor and producer who has worked primarily in New Zealand. He is particularly noted for his work on the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which he co-produced with Peter Jackson...
  
  
  • City of God—Daniel Rezende
    Daniel Rezende
    Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on the 2002 film City of God and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the same film...
    
    
  • Cold Mountain
    Cold Mountain (film)
    Cold Mountain is a 2003 war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier...
    
    —Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
    
    
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios...
    
    —Lee Smith
    Lee Smith (editor)
    Lee Smith is an ACE-certified Australian film editor. He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm , The Piano , The Portrait of a Lady and Holy Smoke!...
    
    
  • Seabiscuit
    Seabiscuit (film)
    Seabiscuit is a 2003 American biographical film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand...
    
    —William Goldenberg
    William Goldenberg
    William Goldenberg is a film editor with more than twenty credits since 1992. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films Seabiscuit and The Insider...
    
    

• 2004
  77th Academy Awards
  The 77th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2004 and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock.The nominees were announced on January 25, 2005...
  
   The Aviator—Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
  
  
  • Collateral
    Collateral (film)
    Collateral is a 2004 crime thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. It was Mann's first feature film to be shot mostly with high-definition cameras. Mann had previously used the format for portions of Ali and for his CBS drama...
    
    —Jim Miller
    Jim Miller (film editor)
    Jim Miller is an American film editor. Along with Paul Rubell, Miller was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Collateral ....
    
     and Paul Rubell
    Paul Rubell
    Paul Rubell is a film editor. His career spans 25 years in both film and television.Rubell obtained his bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Rubell worked for a time with editor Lou Lombardo. His first editing credit was for the film The Final Terror...
    
    
  • Finding Neverland
    Finding Neverland
    Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...
    
    —Matt Chesse
    Matt Chesse
    Matt Chesse is an American film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with Independent films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Finding Neverland...
    
    
  • Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman...
    
    —Joel Cox
    Joel Cox
    Joel Cox is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.-Life and career:Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest . He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961.His first film as an assistant editor was The...
    
    
  • Ray
    Ray (film)
    Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.Charles was set to...
    
    —Paul Hirsch
    Paul Hirsch (film editor)
    Paul Hirsch is an American motion picture editor.A native of New York City, after graduating from Columbia he began to pursue a career in editing. In the late 1960s, while editing trailers in NYC, he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma...
    
    

• 2005
  78th Academy Awards
  The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005 and were held on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, with Tom Kane making his first appearance as the show's announcer...
  
   Crash
  Crash (2004 film)
  Crash is a 2004 American drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video...
  
  —Hughes Winborne
  Hughes Winborne
  Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood film editor. He has edited 20 films, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also edited Sling Blade and The Pursuit of Happyness ....
  
  
  • Cinderella Man
    Cinderella Man
    Cinderella Man is a 2005 American drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story. The film was produced by Howard, Penny Marshall, and Brian Grazer.-Plot:James J...
    
    —Mike Hill
    Mike Hill (film editor)
    Mike Hill, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hill and his editing partner Dan Hanley have had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift .Hill was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and...
    
     and Dan Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hanley and his editing partner Mike Hill have had a notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift...
    
    
  • The Constant Gardener
    The Constant Gardener (film)
    The Constant Gardener is a 2005 drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on the John le Carré novel of the same name. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a man who seeks to find the motivating forces behind his wife's murder.The film stars Ralph Fiennes,...
    
    —Claire Simpson
    Claire Simpson
    Claire Simpson is a British film editor whose work has been honored with an Academy Award and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for The Constant Gardener. She was mentored by Dede Allen and in turn mentored such notable and renowned Academy Award winning film editors such as Pietro Scalia, David...
    
    
  • Munich
    Munich (film)
    Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation attacks after the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September terrorist group during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film stars Eric Bana and was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg...
    
    —Michael Kahn
    Michael Kahn (film editor)
    Michael Kahn is an American film editor. His credits range from TV's Hogan's Heroes to feature films directed by George C. Scott and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration over more than thirty years.Kahn is a member of the American Cinema Editors...
    
    
  • Walk the Line
    Walk the Line
    Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
    
    —Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker is an American film editor. He edited the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line. McCusker was mentored by film editor, David Brenner....
    
    

• 2006
  79th Academy Awards
  The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the best films of 2006 and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.The nominees were...
  
   The Departed
  The Departed
  The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
  
  —Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker
  Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull...
  
  
  • Babel—Douglas Crise
    Douglas Crise
    -Biography:Douglas Crise was born to Glenn Crise, a retired mail carrier, and Catherine, a homemaker. The middle child of the family, Crise grew up in Smithton, Pennsylvania. In 1979, Crise graduated from Yough High School and soon began to work as a meat cutter at Shop 'n Save in Mount Pleasant,...
    
    , Stephen Mirrione
    Stephen Mirrione
    Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic .-Life and career:...
    
    
  • Blood Diamond
    Blood Diamond (film)
    Blood Diamond is a 2006 political thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou...
    
    —Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum
    Steven Rosenblum is a film editor who has edited close to twenty films. He has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Edward Zwick, and has edited all of his films since Glory...
    
    
  • Children of Men
    Children of Men
    Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last...
    
    —Alfonso Cuarón
    Alfonso Cuarón
    Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...
    
    , Alex Rodríguez
    Alex Rodríguez (film editor)
    Alex Rodríguez is a Mexican film editor with more than twenty film credits.Rodríguez was born in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France. He has edited several films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, commencing with Y tu mamá también . He and Cuarón were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the...
    
    
  • United 93
    United 93 (film)
    United 93 is a 2006 fact-based historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks...
    
    —Clare Douglas
    Clare Douglas
    Clare Douglas is a British film editor who received a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the 2006 film United 93. Douglas has worked extensively on British television, and she has been nominated four times for BAFTA Television Editing Awards.-Biography:...
    
    , Richard Pearson
    Rick Pearson
    Richard "Rick" Pearson is an American film editor, producer, and director, who is mainly associated with action films. Pearson, with Clare Douglas and Christopher Rouse, received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film United 93 ....
    
    , Christopher Rouse
    Christopher Rouse (editor)
    Christopher Russell Rouse is an American film and television editor who has about a dozen feature-film credits and numerous television credits. Rouse won the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the ACE Eddie Award for the film The Bourne Ultimatum .Rouse was born...
    
    

• 2007
  80th Academy Awards
  The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...
  
   The Bourne Ultimatum
  The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
  The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same title. This film is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy...
  
  —Christopher Rouse
  Christopher Rouse (editor)
  Christopher Russell Rouse is an American film and television editor who has about a dozen feature-film credits and numerous television credits. Rouse won the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the ACE Eddie Award for the film The Bourne Ultimatum .Rouse was born...
  
  
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
    
    —Juliette Welfling
    Juliette Welfling
    Juliette Welfling is a French film editor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for her work in the 2007 movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...
    
    
  • Into the Wild
    Into the Wild (film)
    Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless with...
    
    —Jay Cassidy
    Jay Cassidy
    Jay Cassidy is an American film editor with more than 30 credits since 1978. He began his career in the 1970s working on documentaries and political advertising. He has had a notable collaboration with Sean Penn, having edited all of the films directed by Penn...
    
    
  • No Country for Old Men
    No Country for Old Men (film)
    No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The film was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name...
    
    —Roderick Jaynes (Jaynes is a pseudonym for the Coen brothers
    Coen Brothers
    Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
    
    )
  • There Will Be Blood
    There Will Be Blood
    There Will Be Blood is a 2007 drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!. It tells the story of a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and...
    
    —Dylan Tichenor
    Dylan Tichenor
    Dylan Tichenor is a film editor.As a child, he grew up watching movies with his father. He graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1986....
    
    

• 2008
  81st Academy Awards
  The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2008 and took place February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST...
  
   Slumdog Millionaire
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...
  
  —Chris Dickens
  Chris Dickens
  Chris Dickens is a British film and television editor with more than 25 film credits. His work on Slumdog Millionaire , directed by Danny Boyle, won the Academy Award for Film Editing, BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film .Chris went to...
  
  
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
    
    —Kirk Baxter
    Kirk Baxter
    Kirk Baxter is an Australian film editor. His editing, with Angus Wall, of the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award.Baxter was raised in Sydney, Australia and...
    
     and Angus Wall
    Angus Wall
    Angus Wall is a film editor and film title designer. His editing, with Kirk Baxter, of the film The Social Network won the Academy Award for Film Editing...
    
    
  • The Dark Knight
    The Dark Knight (film)
    The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
    
    —Lee Smith
    Lee Smith (editor)
    Lee Smith is an ACE-certified Australian film editor. He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm , The Piano , The Portrait of a Lady and Holy Smoke!...
    
    
  • Frost/Nixon
    Frost/Nixon (film)
    Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the 2006 play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film was directed by Ron Howard and produced for Universal Pictures by Howard, Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working...
    
    —Mike Hill
    Mike Hill (film editor)
    Mike Hill, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hill and his editing partner Dan Hanley have had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift .Hill was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and...
    
     and Dan Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley
    Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 . Hanley and his editing partner Mike Hill have had a notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift...
    
    
  • Milk
    Milk (film)
    Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
    
    —Elliot Graham
    Elliot Graham
    Elliot Graham is an American film editor whose work on the film Milk was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award....
    
    

• 2009
  82nd Academy Awards
  The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after...
  
   The Hurt Locker
  The Hurt Locker
  The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
  
  —Chris Innis
  Chris Innis
  Christina Jean "Chris" Innis is an American film editor and filmmaker. She was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt Locker, shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski...
  
  , Bob Murawski
  Bob Murawski
  Bob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
  
  
  • Avatar—James Cameron
    James Cameron
    James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...
    
    , John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin
    Stephen E. Rivkin
    Stephen E. Rivkin is a film editor and producer with more than 30 film credits. His career started in 1976 on the short film, Ain't We Having Fun?. Since 1994 he has been the principal editor working with director Norman Jewison. Rivkin has been elected a member of the American Cinema Editors...
    
    
  • District 9
    District 9
    District 9 is a 2009 South African science fiction thriller film directed by Neill Blomkamp. It was written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James...
    
    —Julian Clarke
    Julian Clarke
    Julian Clarke is a Canadian film editor. Clarke graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School before enrolling at the University of British Columbia as a film major. After graduating from UBC in 2000, Clarke immediately began to find work as a professional film editor...
    
    
  • Inglourious Basterds—Sally Menke
    Sally Menke
    Sally JoAnne Menke was an American film editor with more than 20 film credits since 1984. She had a long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino, having edited all of his films...
    
    
  • Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire—Joe Klotz
    Joe Klotz
    Joe Klotz is an American film editor. A graduate of Syracuse University, Klotz fell into the film editing industry while trying to pay off student loans. After editing for local commercials, news stations, and television shows in New York City he moved into the world of film editing...
    
    

2010s

• 2010
  83rd Academy Awards
  The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...
  
   The Social Network
  The Social Network
  The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits...
  
  —Angus Wall
  Angus Wall
  Angus Wall is a film editor and film title designer. His editing, with Kirk Baxter, of the film The Social Network won the Academy Award for Film Editing...
  
   and Kirk Baxter
  Kirk Baxter
  Kirk Baxter is an Australian film editor. His editing, with Angus Wall, of the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award.Baxter was raised in Sydney, Australia and...
  
  
  • Black Swan
    Black Swan (film)
    Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. Its plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires a ballerina to...
    
    —Andrew Weisblum
    Andrew Weisblum
    Andrew Weisblum is a film editor and a visual effects editor. He has collaborated frequently with directors Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson. Weisblum was nominated a American Cinema Editors's Eddie Award for Best Edited Animated Feature Film for his work on Fantastic Mr...
    
    
  • 127 Hours
    127 Hours
    127 Hours is a 2010 biographical adventure drama film co-written, produced and directed by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003....
    
    —Jon Harris
    Jon Harris (director)
    Jonathan Harris is a film editor, special effect artist and director.-Biography:Harris was born in Sheffield. His best known work was editing The Descent, with the sequel The Descent: Part 2 being his directorial debut...
    
    
  • The Fighter—Pamela Martin
    Pamela Martin (film editor)
    Pamela Martin is an American film editor. Martin received a nomination for an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Musical or Comedy for her work on Little Miss Sunshine...
    
    
  • The King's Speech—Tariq Anwar