The Academy Award for Film Editing is one of the yearly awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Since 1981, every movie selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar. About two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.[1]
This award was first given for movies released in 1934. The name of this award is sometimes changed. In 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing.
These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.[2]
1930s
- 1934 Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent (see Ray Mala)—Conrad A. Nervig
- 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream—Ralph Dawson
- David Copperfield—Robert J. Kern
- The Informer—George Hively
- Les Misérables—Barbara McLean
- Lives of a Bengal Lancer—Ellsworth Hoagland
- Mutiny on the Bounty—Margaret Booth
- 1936 Anthony Adverse—Ralph Dawson
- 1937 Lost Horizon—Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
- 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood—Ralph Dawson
- Alexander's Ragtime Band—Barbara McLean
- The Great Waltz—Tom Held
- Test Pilot—Tom Held
- You Can't Take It with You—Gene Havlick
- 1939 Gone with the Wind—Hal C. Kern, James E. Mewcom
1950s
- 1950 King Solomon's Mines—Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
- 1951 A Place in the Sun—William Hornbeck
- 1952 High Noon—Elmo Williams, Harry Gerstad
- 1953 From Here to Eternity—William A. Lyon
- Crazylegs—Irvine (Cotton) Warburton
- The Moon Is Blue—Otto Ludwig
- Roman Holiday—Robert Swink
- The War of the Worlds—Everett Douglas
- 1954 On the Waterfront—Gene Milford
- 1955 Picnic—Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon
- Blackboard Jungle—Ferris Webster
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri—Alma Macrorie
- Oklahoma!—Gene Ruggiero, George Boemler
- The Rose Tattoo—Warren Low
- 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days—Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax
- The Brave One—Merrill G. White
- Giant—William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson, Fred Bohanan
- Somebody Up There Likes Me—Albert Akst
- The Ten Commandments—Anne Bauchens
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai—Peter Taylor
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral—Warren Low
- Pal Joey—Viola Lawrence, Jerome Thoms
- Sayonara—Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
- Witness for the Prosecution—Daniel Mandell
- 1958 Gigi—Adrienne Fazan
- Auntie Mame—William Ziegler
- Cowboy—William A. Lyon, Al Clark
- The Defiant Ones—Frederic Knudtson
- I Want to Live!—William Hornbeck
- 1959 Ben-Hur—Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning
1960s
- 1960 The Apartment—Daniel Mandell
- The Alamo—Stuart Gilmore
- Inherit the Wind—Frederic Knudtson
- Pepe—Viola Lawrence, Al Clark
- Spartacus—Robert Lawrence
- 1961 West Side Story—Thomas Stanford
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia—Anne V. Coates
- 1963 How the West Was Won—Harold F. Kress
- 1964 Mary Poppins—Cotton Warburton
- 1965 The Sound of Music—William H. Reynolds
- Cat Ballou—Charles Nelson
- Doctor Zhivago—Norman Savage
- The Flight of the Phoenix—Michael Luciano
- The Great Race—Ralph E. Winters
- 1966 Grand Prix—Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, Frank Santillo
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night—Hal Ashby
- 1968 Bullitt—Frank P. Keller
- Funny Girl—Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands
- The Odd Couple—Frank Bracht
- Oliver!—Ralph Kemplen
- Wild in the Streets—Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
- 1969 Z—Françoise Bonnot
1980s
- 1980 Raging Bull—Thelma Schoonmaker
- Coal Miner's Daughter—Arthur Schmidt
- The Competition—David Blewitt
- The Elephant Man—Anne V. Coates
- Fame—Gerry Hambling
- 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark—Michael Kahn
- 1982 Gandhi—John Bloom
- 1983 The Right Stuff—Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf
- Blue Thunder—Frank Morriss, Edward Abroms
- Flashdance—Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
- Silkwood—Sam O'Steen
- Terms of Endearment—Richard Marks
- 1984 The Killing Fields—Jim Clark
- 1985 Witness—Thom Noble
- A Chorus Line—John Bloom
- Out of Africa—Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn
- Prizzi's Honor—Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr
- Runaway Train—Henry Richardson
- 1986 Platoon—Claire Simpson
- 1987 The Last Emperor—Gabriella Cristiani
- Broadcast News—Richard Marks
- Empire of the Sun—Michael Kahn
- Fatal Attraction—Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
- RoboCop—Frank J. Urioste
- 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit—Arthur Schmidt
- 1989 Born on the Fourth of July—David Brenner, Joe Hutshing
1990s
The award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999.
2000s
- 2000 Traffic—Stephen Mirrione
- 2001 Black Hawk Down—Pietro Scalia
- 2005 Crash—Hughes Winborne
- 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum—Christopher Rouse