German Film Award / Best Editing

All winners of the German Film Award in the Best Editing category can be found on this page. Until 2004, Best Cut was one of the categories that were not awarded annually and that were determined without a nomination.

Prize winner from 1972–2004

year	Award winners	Movie title
1975	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus	In danger and greatest need, the middle path brings death for everyone and God against everyone
	Peter Przygodda	Wrong move
1976- 1977	Prize not awarded
1978	Peter Przygodda	The American friend The glass cell The left-handed woman
1979	Dagmar Hirtz	The Judge and His Hangman
1980	Siegrun hunter	The riot
1981- 1983	Prize not awarded
1984	Helga Borsche	Edith's diary
1985- 1989	Prize not awarded
1990	Dagmar Hirtz	Georg Elser - One from Germany
1991	Juliane Lorenz	Malina
1992	Prize not awarded
1993	Adolf Winkelmann	North curve
1994	Ulrike Schwarzenberger	Boiled beef
1995	Prize not awarded
1996	Alexander Berner	Sleep Brother How time flies
1997	Inez Regnier	Rossini - or the murderous question of who slept with whom Real Guys
1998	Peter R. Adam	Comedian Harmonists
1999	Mathilde Bonnefoy	Lola runs
2000	Monika Schindler	Hans Warns - My 20th Century
2001	Christian Lonk	alaska.de
2002	Hana Müllner	The rock
2003	Peter R. Adam	Good bye Lenin!
2004	Sarah Clara Weber	Silent as a mouse

Award winners and nominees from 2005

2000s

2005

Dirk Grau and Martin Hoffmann - Rhythm Is It!

• Peter R. Adam - The ninth day
• Elena Bromund - Everything on sugar!

2006

Dirk Grau - tough

• Patricia Rommel - The Lives of Others
• Bernd Schlegel and Hansjörg Weißbrich - Requiem

2007

Alexander Berner - Perfume - The story of a murderer

• Susanne Hartmann and Anja Pohl - Those who die earlier are dead longer
• Uta Schmidt - four minutes
• Hansjörg Weißbrich - The wish for love

2008

Andrew Bird - On the other hand

• Ueli Christen - The Wave
• Hansjörg Weißbrich - Trade - Welcome to America

2009

Sebastian Thümler - Chiko

• Anne Fabini - Berlin Calling
• Peter Przygodda , Mirko Scheel , Oli Weiss - Palermo Shooting
• Patricia Rommel - One year in winter

2010s

2010

Hansjörg Weißbrich - Storm

• Andrew Bird - Soul Kitchen
• Andrea Mertens - The Stranger
• Andreas Radtke - The door
• Monika Willi - The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story

2011

Mathilde Bonnefoy - Three

• Ueli Christen - We are the night
• Hansjörg Weißbrich - who if not us

2012

Peter R. Adam - Anonymous

• Bettina Böhler - Barbara
• Jörg Hauschild - stop on the open road

2013

Alexander Berner - Cloud Atlas

• Anne Fabini - More than Honey
• Anja Siemens - Oh boy

2014

Hansjörg Weißbrich - Two Lives

• Anne Fabini - Houston
• Andreas Wodraschke - Wetlands

2015

Robert Rzesacz - Who Am I - No system is safe

• Mathilde Bonnefoy - Citizenfour
• Sven Budelmann - Stereo
• Alexander Dittner - Elser - He would have changed the world
• Jörg Hauschild - When we were dreaming

2016

Alexander Berner - A hologram of the King (A Hologram for the King)

• Peter R. Adam - Me and Kaminski
• Hansjörg Weißbrich - Colonia Dignidad - There is no going back

2017

Heike Parplies - Toni Erdmann

• Andrew Bird - Tschick
• Bettina Böhler - Wild

2018

Stephan Krumbiegel and Olaf Voigtländer - Beuys

• Michał Czarnecki - The Captain
• Jan Ruschke - Once upon a time there was Indian land

2019

Anne Fabini - Of Fathers and Sons

• Jörg Hauschild - Gundermann
• Ana de Mier y Ortuño - The most beautiful girl in the world
• Monika Willi - Styx

2020s

2020

Stephan Bechinger , Julia Kovalenko - system sprinkler

• Bettina Böhler - Schlingensief - Screaming into the silence
• Heike Gnida - pelican blood
• Andreas Menn - My end. Your beginning.