The Saturn Award for Best Editing (originally Saturn Award for Outstanding Editing) is one of the annual awards given by the
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The
Saturn Awards
The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films be ...
, which are the oldest
film-specialized awards to honor
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
,
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...
, and
horror in film (the
Hugo Award for
Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the
5th Saturn Awards.
The award was discontinued after being awarded again at the
following ceremony, but was reactivated for the
38th ceremony in 2012.
Paul Hirsch, who won the inaugural award for ''
Star Wars'' (1977), sharing the award with
Marcia Lucas
Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945)
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is an American film editor and film producer. She is best known for her work editing Martin Scorsese's '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1973), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and '' New York, ...
and
Richard Chew
Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ''Star Wars'' (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ...
, won it again thirty-four years later for ''
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'' (2011);
he is currently the only editor to have won it twice.
Winners and nominees
1970s
2010s
2020s
Multiple nominations
;5 nominations
* Jeffrey Ford
;4 nominations
* Christian Wagner
;3 nominations
* Maryann Brandon
* Bob Ducsay
* John Gilroy
* Fred Raskin
* Matthew Schmidt
;2 nominations
* Leigh Folsom Boyd
* Mark Day
* Stefan Grube
* Eddie Hamilton
* James Herbert
* Dylan Highsmith
* Michael Kahn
* Mary Jo Markey
* Kelly Matsumoto
* Nicholas Monsour
* Kirk Morri
* Tim Squyres
Multiple wins
;2 wins
* Bob Ducsay
* Paul Hirsch
References
External links
Official Site
{{Saturn Awards
Editing, Saturn Award for Best