Oscar / Best Editing

With the Oscar for best editing are film editors honored a film. The prize has been awarded in this category since 1935.

statistics
Most frequently paid film editor	Ralph Dawson , Michael Kahn , Daniel Mandell and Thelma Schoonmaker (three wins each)
Most frequently nominated film editor	Michael Kahn , Thelma Schoonmaker (eight nominations each)
Most frequently nominated film editor without a win	Gerry Hambling and Frederic Knudtson (six nominations each)

In the table below, the winners are listed according to the year in which they were awarded.

1935-1940

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1935	Conrad A. Annoying	Eskimo	Anne Bauchens for Cleopatra Gene Milford for The Shining Target
1936	Ralph Dawson	A midsummer night's dream	Margaret Booth for Mutiny on the Bounty George Hively for The Traitor Ellsworth Hoagland for Bengali Robert Kern for David Copperfield Barbara McLean for The Wretched
1937	Ralph Dawson	A restless life	Edward Curtiss for Take What You Can Get William S. Gray for The Great Ziegfeld Barbara McLean for Signals to London Otto Meyer for Theodora Goes Wild Conrad A. Annoying for Escape from Paris
1938	Gene Havlick Gene Milford	In the shackles of Shangri-La	Bernard W. Burton for 100 Men and a Girl Al Clark for The Terrible Truth Elmo Veron for Manuel Basil Wrangell for The Good Earth
1939	Ralph Dawson	Robin Hood, king of the vagabonds	Gene Havlick for the bon vivant Tom Held for The Great Waltz Tom Held for The Test Pilot Barbara McLean for Alexander's Ragtime Band
1940	Hal C. Kern James E. Newcom	Blown by the wind	Charles Frend for goodbye, Mr. Chip Gene Havlick and Al Clark for Mr. Smith goes to Washington for Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer for Ringo Barbara McLean for Night Over India

1941-1950

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1941	Anne Bauchens	The Scarlet Horsemen	Hal C. Kern for Rebecca Warren Low for The Secret of Malampur Robert L. Simpson for The Fruits of Wrath Sherman Todd for The Long Road To Cardiff
1942	William Holmes	Sergeant York	James B. Clark for Striking Weather Harold F. Kress for Doctor and Demon Daniel Mandell for The Little Foxes Robert Wise for Citizen Kane
1943	Daniel Mandell	The big hit	George Amy for Yankee Doodle Dandy Harold F. Kress for Mrs. Miniver Otto Meyer for Witness for the Prosecution Walter Thompson for This Above All
1944	George Amy	Air Force	Doane Harrison for Five Graves to Cairo Owen Marks for Casablanca Barbara McLean for The Song by Bernadette Sherman Todd and John F. Link senior for Whom the Hour Strikes
1945	Barbara McLean	Wilson	Roland Gross for None But the Lonely Heart Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom for Als du Abschiedst Owen Marks for Janie LeRoy Stone for Der Weg zum Glück
1946	Robert Kern	Little girl, big heart	George Amy for The Hero of Burma Doane Harrison for The Lost Weekend Harry Marker for The Bells of St. Mary Charles Nelson for Polonaise
1947	Daniel Mandell	The best years of our life	Arthur Hilton for Avengers of the Underworld William Hornbeck for Isn't Life Beautiful? Harold F. Kress for Die Wildnis calls William A. Lyon for Der Jazzsänger
1948	Francis D. Lyon Robert Parrish	Chasing Millions	Monica Collingwood for Every Woman Needs an Angel Harmon Jones for Taboo of the Righteous Fergus McDonell for Outcast George White for Typhoon
1949	Paul Weatherwax	City without a mask	Reginald Mills for The Red Shoes Christian Nyby for Red River Frank Sullivan for Johanna von Orleans David Weisbart for Silent Lips
1950	Harry W. Gerstad	Between women and ropes	John D. Dunning for Kesselschlacht Frederic Knudtson for The Eerie Window Robert Parrish and Al Clark for The Man Who Wanted to Rule Richard L. Van Enger for You were our comrade

1951-1960

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1951	Ralph E. Winters Conrad A. Annoying	King Solomon's diamonds	Oswald Hafenrichter for The Third Man Barbara McLean for Everything About Eva James E. Newcom for Duel in der Manege Arthur P. Schmidt and Doane Harrison for Boulevard der Twilight
1952	William Hornbeck	A place in the Sun	Adrienne Fazan for An American in Paris Chester W. Schaeffer for City in Turmoil Dorothy Spencer for Decision Before Dawn Ralph E. Winters for Quo vadis?
1953	Elmo Williams Harry W. Gerstad	Twelve noon	William Austin for Storm Squadron Comet Anne Bauchens for The Greatest Show in the World Ralph Kemplen for Moulin Rouge Warren Low for Return, little Sheba
1954	William A. Lyon	Damn to all eternity	Everett Douglas for Battle of the Worlds Otto Ludwig for Clouds are everywhere Robert Swink for A Heart and a Crown Cotton Warburton for Crazylegs
1955	Gene Milford	The fist on the neck	Ralph Dawson for It Always Comes Day William A. Lyon and Henry Batista for The Caine Was Her Destiny Elmo Williams for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ralph E. Winters for A Bride for Seven Brothers
1956	Charles Nelson William A. Lyon	picnic	Warren Low for The Tattooed Rose Alma Macrorie for The Bridges by Toko-Ri Gene Ruggiero and George Boemler for Oklahoma! Ferris Webster for The Seeds of Violence
1957	Gene Ruggiero Paul Weatherwax	In 80 days around the world	Albert Akst for The Hell Is Inside Me Anne Bauchens for The Ten Commandments William Hornbeck , Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan for Giants Merrill G. White for Red Dust
1958	Peter Taylor	The bridge on the Kwai	Viola Lawrence and Jerome Thoms for Pal Joey Warren Low for Two reckon Daniel Mandell for Witness Arthur P. Schmidt and Philip W. Anderson for Sayonara
1959	Adrienne Fazan	Gigi	William Hornbeck for Let Me Live Frederic Knudtson for Escape in Chains William A. Lyon and Al Clark for Cowboy William H. Ziegler for The Great Aunt
1960	Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning	Ben Hur	Frederic Knudtson for The Last Shore Louis R. Loeffler for Anatomy of a Murder Walter Thompson for a Nun's Story George Tomasini for The Invisible Third

1961-1970

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1961	Daniel Mandell	The apartment	Stuart Gilmore for Alamo Frederic Knudtson for Wer den Wind sät Viola Lawrence and Al Clark for Pepe - What can the world cost Robert Lawrence for Spartacus
1962	Thomas Stanford	West Side Story	Philip W. Anderson for Announcing Her Parents' Wedding Frederic Knudtson for The Judgment of Nuremberg Alan Osbiston for The Guns of Navarone William H. Reynolds for Fanny
1963	Anne V. Coates	Lawrence of Arabia	Samuel E. Beetley for The Longest Day John McSweeney Junior for Mutiny on the Bounty Ferris Webster for Ambassador of Fear William H. Ziegler for Music Man
1964	Harold F. Kress	That was the wild west	Frederic Knudtson , Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler junior for a totally, totally crazy world Louis R. Loeffler for Cardinal Dorothy Spencer for Cleopatra Ferris Webster for Broken Chains
1965	Cotton Warburton	Mary Poppins	Anne V. Coates for Becket Ted J. Kent for The Big Wolf Calls Michael Luciano for Lullaby for a Corpse William H. Ziegler for My Fair Lady
1966	William H. Reynolds	My songs, my dreams	Michael Luciano for The Flight of the Phoenix Charles Nelson for Cat Ballou - You Shall Hang in Wyoming Norman Savage for Doctor Schiwago Ralph E. Winters for The Great Race Around the World
1967	Fredric Steinkamp Henry Berman Stu Linder Frank Santillo	Grand Prix	Hal Ashby and J. Terry Williams for The Russians are coming! The Russians are Coming! William B. Murphy for The Fantastic Journey Sam O'Steen for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woold? William H. Reynolds for gunboat on the Yangtze River
1968	Hal Ashby	In the Heat of the Night	Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler for Doctor Dolittle Robert C. Jones for Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner Frank P. Keller for Bloody Beach Michael Luciano for The Dirty Dozen
1969	Frank P. Keller	Bullitt	Frank Bracht for A Strange Couple, Fred R. Feitshans junior and Eve Newman for Wild in the Streets Ralph Kemplen for Oliver Robert Swink , Maury Winetrobe and William Sands for Funny Girl
1970	Françoise Bonnot	Z	William A. Lyon and Earle Herdan for The Secret of Santa Vittoria William H. Reynolds for Hello, Dolly! Hugh A. Robertson for Asphalt Cowboy Fredric Steinkamp for Only Horses are given the coup de grace

1971-1980

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1971	Hugh S. Fowler	Patton - rebel in uniform	Stuart Gilmore for Airport Danford B. Greene for M * A * S * H James E. Newcom , Pembroke J. Herring and Inoue Chikaya for Tora! Torah! Torah! Thelma Schoonmaker for Woodstock
1972	Gerald B. Greenberg	French Connection - Brooklyn Focal Point	Folmar Blangsted for Summer '42 Bill Butler for A Clockwork Orange Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes for Andromeda - Deadly Dust from Space Ralph E. Winters for Grandpa can't help it
1973	David Bretherton	Cabaret	Frank P. Keller and Fred W. Berger for Four Weird Birds Harold F. Kress for Die Höllenfahrt der Poseidon Tom Priestley for When Die Everyone is First William H. Reynolds and Peter Zinner for The Godfather
1974	William H. Reynolds	The highlight	Jordan Leondopoulos , Bud S. Smith , Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay for The Exorcist Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas for American Graffiti Frank P. Keller and James Galloway for The Seagull Jonathan Ralph Kemplen for The Jackal
1975	Harold F. Kress Carl Kress	Flaming inferno	John C. Howard and Danford B. Greene for The Wild Wild West Michael Luciano for The Hardest Mile Sam O'Steen for Chinatown Dorothy Spencer for Earthquakes
1976	Verna Fields	The White shark	Dede Allen for Dog Days Richard Chew , Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Russell Lloyd for The Man Who Wanted to Be King Fredric Steinkamp and Don Guidice for The Three Days of the Condor
1977	Richard Halsey Scott Conrad	Rocky	Alan Heim for Network Robert C. Jones and Pembroke J. Herring for This Land is My Land Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann for Two Minute Warning Robert L. Wolfe for The Untouchables
1978	Paul Hirsch Marcia Lucas Richard Chew	war of stars	Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross for A Cooked-Out Schlitzohr Michael Kahn for Close Encounters of the Third Kind Walter Murch and Marcel Durham for Julia William H. Reynolds for At the turning point
1979	Peter Zinner	Those who go through hell	Stuart Baird for Superman Gerry Hambling for 12 noon - Midnight Express Robert Swink for The Boys from Brazil Don Zimmerman for Coming Home - They are returning home
1980	Alan Heim	Behind the spotlight	Robert Dalva for The Black Stallion Gerald B. Greenberg for Kramer against Kramer Richard Marks , Walter Murch , Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman for Apocalypse Now Robert L. Wolfe and Carroll Timothy O'Meara for The Rose

1981-1990

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1981	Thelma Schoonmaker	Like a wild bull	David E. Blewitt for The Grand Final Anne V. Coates for The Elephant Man Gerry Hambling for Fame - The Road to Fame Arthur Schmidt for Nashville Lady
1982	Michael Kahn	Hunter of the lost treasure	Dede Allen and Craig McKay for Reds John Bloom for The Beloved of French Lieutenant Terry Rawlings for The Hour of the Victor Robert L. Wolfe for At the Golden Lake
1983	John Bloom	Gandhi	Carol Littleton for ET - The Extra Terrestrial Hannes Nikel for Das Boot Fredric Steinkamp and William Steinkamp for Tootsie Peter Zinner for An Officer and a Gentleman
1984	Glenn Farr Lisa Fruchtman Stephen A. Rotter Douglas Stewart Tom Rolf	The stuff the heroes are made of	Richard Marks for Time of Tenderness Frank Morriss and Edward M. Abroms for The Flying Eye Sam O'Steen for Silkwood Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery for Flashdance
1985	Jim Clark	The Killing Fields - Screaming Land	Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss for On the Hunt for the Green Diamond Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler for Amadeus David Lean for Trip to India Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett for Cotton Club
1986	Thom Noble	The only witness	John Bloom for A Chorus Line Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr for Die Ehre der Prizzis Henry Richardson for Express in Hell Fredric Steinkamp , William Steinkamp , Pembroke J. Herring and Sheldon Kahn for Out of Africa
1987	Claire Simpson	Platoon	Jim Clark for Mission Ray Lovejoy for Aliens - The Return Susan E. Morse for Hannah and her sisters Billy Weber and Chris Lebenzon for Top Gun
1988	Gabriella Cristiani	The last emperor	Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger for a fateful affair Michael Kahn for Das Reich der Sonne Richard Marks for Nachrichtenfieber - Broadcast News Frank J. Urioste for RoboCop
1989	Arthur Schmidt	Wrong game with Roger Rabbit	Stuart Baird for Gorillas im Nebel Gerry Hambling for Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate Stu Linder for Rain Man Frank J. Urioste and John F. Link for Die Hard
1990	David Brenner Joe Hutshing	Born on July 4th	Noëlle Boisson for Der Bär Steven Rosenblum for Glory William Steinkamp for The Fabulous Baker Boys Mark Warner for Miss Daisy and her chauffeur

1991-2000

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1991	Neil Travis	The one, who dances with the wolf	Barry Malkin , Lisa Fruchtman and Walter Murch for The Godfather - Part III Walter Murch for Ghost - Message from Sam Thelma Schoonmaker for Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia Dennis Virkler and John Wright for the Hunt for Red October
1992	Joe Hutshing Pietro Scalia	JFK - Dallas crime scene	Conrad Buff IV , Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris for Terminator 2 - Judgment Day Gerry Hambling for The Commitments Craig McKay for The Silence of the Lambs Thom Noble for Thelma & Louise
1993	Joel Cox	Merciless	Robert Leighton for A Matter of Honor Kant Pan for The Crying Game Geraldine Peroni for The Player Frank J. Urioste for Basic Instinct
1994	Michael Kahn	Schindlers List	Anne V. Coates for In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance Gerry Hambling for In the Name of the Father Veronika Jenet for Das Piano Dennis Virkler , David Finfer , Dean Goodhill , Don Brochu , Richard Nord and Dov Hoenig for Auf der Flucht
1995	Arthur Schmidt	Forrest Gump	Richard Francis-Bruce for The Condemned Frederick Marx , Steve James and William Haugse for Hoop Dreams Sally Menke for Pulp Fiction John Wright for Speed
1996	Mike Hill Daniel P. Hanley	Apollo 13	Marcus D'Arcy and Jay Friedkin for A Pig Called Babe Richard Francis-Bruce for Seven Chris Lebenzon for Crimson Tide Steven Rosenblum for Braveheart
1997	Walter Murch	The English patient	Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for Fargo Gerry Hambling for Evita Joe Hutshing for Jerry Maguire - Game of Life Pip Karmel for Shine - The Path into Light
1998	Conrad Buff IV James Cameron Richard A. Harris	Titanic	Richard Francis-Bruce for Air Force One Peter Honess for LA Confidential Richard Marks for Better It Couldn't Be Pietro Scalia for Good Will Hunting
1999	Michael Kahn	The soldier James Ryan	Anne V. Coates for Out of Sight David Gamble for Shakespeare in Love Simona Paggi for Life is beautiful Billy Weber , Leslie Jones and Saar Klein for Der schmale Grat
2000	Zach Staenberg	matrix	Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury for American Beauty Lisa Zeno Churgin for God's Work & Devil's Contribution William Goldenberg , Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom for Insider Andrew Mondshein for The Sixth Sense

2001-2010

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2001	Stephen Mirrione	Traffic - power of the cartel	Dede Allen for WonderBoys Joe Hutshing and Saar Klein for Almost Famous - Almost Famous Pietro Scalia for Gladiator Tim Squyres for Tiger and Dragon
2002	Pietro Scalia	Black Hawk Down	Jill Bilcock for Moulin Rouge Dody Dorn for Memento John Gilbert for The Lord of the Rings: Companions Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley for A Beautiful Mind - Genie und Wahnsinn
2003	Martin Walsh	Chicago	Peter Boyle for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity Michael Horton for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Thelma Schoonmaker for Gangs of New York Hervé de Luze for The Pianist
2004	Jamie Selkirk	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	William Goldenberg for Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success Walter Murch for On the Road to Cold Mountain Daniel Rezende for City of God Lee Smith for Master & Commander - Until the End of the World
2005	Thelma Schoonmaker	Aviator	Matt Chessé for When Dreams Learn To Fly Joel Cox for Million Dollar Baby Paul Hirsch for Ray Jim Miller and Paul Rubell for Collateral
2006	Hughes Winborne	LA crash	Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill for Das Comeback Michael Kahn for Munich Michael McCusker for Walk the Line Claire Simpson for Der ewige Gärtner
2007	Thelma Schoonmaker	Departed - Among enemies	Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez for Children of Men Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione for Babel Clare Douglas , Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse for Flight 93 Steven Rosenblum for Blood Diamond
2008	Christopher Rouse	The Bourne ultimatum	Juliette Welfling for Butterfly and Diving Bell Jay Cassidy for Into the Wild Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men Dylan Tichenor for There Will Be Blood
2009	Christopher Dickens	Slumdog millionaire	Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for The Strange Case of Benjamin Button Lee Smith for The Dark Knight Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill for Frost / Nixon Elliot Graham for Milk
2010	Bob Murawski Chris Innis	Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker	Stephen E. Rivkin , John Refoua and James Cameron for Avatar - Departure to Pandora Julian Clarke for District 9 Sally Menke for Inglourious Basterds Joe Klotz for Precious - Life is Precious

2011-2020

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
2011	Kirk Baxter Angus Wall	The social network	Jon Harris for 127 Hours Andrew Weisblum for Black Swan Pamela Martin for The Fighter Tariq Anwar for The King's Speech
2012	Kirk Baxter Angus Wall	Delusion	Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist Thelma Schoonmaker for Hugo Cabret Christopher Tellefsen for The Art of Winning - Moneyball Kevin Tent for The Descendants - Family and Other Matters
2013	William Goldenberg	Argo	Tim Squyres for Life of Pi: Schiffbruch with Tiger Michael Kahn for Lincoln Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers for Silver Linings Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg for Zero Dark Thirty
2014	Alfonso Cuarón Mark Sanger	Gravity	Joe Walker for 12 Years a Slave Jay Cassidy , Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten for American Hustle Christopher Rouse for Captain Phillips John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa for Dallas Buyers Club
2015	Tom Cross	Whiplash	Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach for American Sniper Sandra Adair for Boyhood Barney Pilling for Grand Budapest Hotel William Goldenberg for The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life
2016	Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road	Stephen Mirrione for The Revenant Tom McArdle for Spotlight Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey for Star Wars: The Force Awakens Hank Corwin for The Big Short
2017	John Gilbert	Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision	Joe Walker for Arrival Jake Roberts for Hell or High Water Tom Cross for La La Land Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon for Moonlight
2018	Lee Smith	Dunkirk	Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos for Baby Driver Tatiana S. Riegel for I, Tonya Sidney Wolinsky for Shape of Water Jon Gregory for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2019	John Ottman	Bohemian Rhapsody	Barry Alexander Brown for BlacKkKlansman Yorgos Mavropsaridis for The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity Patrick J. Don Vito for Green Book - A Special Friendship Hank Corwin for Vice - The Second Man
2020	Andrew Buckland Michael McCusker	Le Mans 66 - Against every chance	Thelma Schoonmaker for The Irishman Tom Eagles for Jojo Rabbit Jeff Groth for Joker Yang Jin-mo for Parasite