Academy Award For Best Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. In 1980, ''Ordinary People'' won as Best Picture, but its editor Jeff Kanew was not nominated for Best 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 currently eligible.

The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012. 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. Rules are published for each year's awards. In earlier years, different rules applied; thus Robert Parrish was nominated for ''All the King's Men'' (1949) with a credit as an "editorial consultant". 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 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.

Four film editors have won this award three times in their career:

* Ralph Dawson won for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1935), ''Anthony Adverse'' (1936), and ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938)
* Daniel Mandell won for ''The Pride of the Yankees'' (1942), ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (1946), and ''The Apartment'' (1960).
* Michael Kahn won for ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), ''Schindler's List'' (1993), and ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998).
* Thelma Schoonmaker won for ''Raging Bull'' (1980), '' The Aviator'' (2004), and ''The Departed'' (2006).

To date, three film directors have won this award: James Cameron, Alfonso Cuarón, and Sean Baker, for the films ''Titanic'', ''Gravity'', and ''Anora'', respectively. Directors David Lean, Steve James, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (under the alias "Roderick Jaynes"), Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias "John Mac McMurphy"), and Chloé Zhao have been nominated for editing their own films as well, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice. Also, Best Film Editing winner, Walter Murch, although known for film editing and sound, directed the Oscar nominated ''Return to Oz'', and is, to date, the only person with Oscars for both sound engineering and film editing—winning them in the same year for his work on ''The English Patient''.

Additionally, former film editors Robert Wise (nominee for ''Citizen Kane''), Hal Ashby (winner for '' In the Heat of the Night''), and Francis D. Lyon (co-winner for '' Body and Soul'') became directors whose films were subsequently nominated for Best Film Editing themselves. These films include '' Somebody Up There Likes Me'', ''I Want to Live!'', ''West Side Story'', ''The Sound of Music'', '' The Sand Pebbles'', and ''The Andromeda Strain'' for Wise; '' Bound for Glory'' and '' Coming Home'' for Ashby; and '' Crazylegs'' for Lyon.

Superlatives

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

Winners and nominees

These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select all "film editing" awards.

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Shortlisted finalists

Finalists for Best Film Editing were selected by branch members, who voted for ten finalists which were screened to determine the five nominees.

Multiple wins and nominations

The following editors have received multiple nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. This list is sorted by the number of total awards won (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

*3: Thelma Schoonmaker (9)
*3: Michael Kahn (8)
*3: Daniel Mandell (5)
*3: Ralph Dawson (4)
*2: William H. Reynolds (7)
*2: Harold F. Kress (6)
*2: William A. Lyon (6)
*2: Joe Hutshing (4)
*2: Pietro Scalia (4)
*2: Kirk Baxter (3)
*2: Gene Milford (3)
*2: Conrad A. Nervig (3)
*2: Arthur Schmidt (3)
*2: Angus Wall (3)
*2: Harry W. Gerstad (2)
*2: Paul Weatherwax (2)
*1: Barbara McLean (7)
*1: Walter Murch (6)
*1: Anne V. Coates (5)
*1: William Goldenberg (5)
*1: Fredric Steinkamp (5)
*1: Ralph E. Winters (5)
*1: Anne Bauchens (4)
*1: Daniel P. Hanley (4)
*1: Mike Hill (4)
*1: William Hornbeck (4)
*1: Frank P. Keller (4)
*1: James E. Newcom (4)
*1: George Amy (3)
*1: John Bloom (3)

*1: Joel Cox (3)
*1: Lisa Fruchtman (3)
*1: Gerald B. Greenberg (3)
*1: Gene Havlick (3)
*1: Hal C. Kern (3)
*1: Stephen Mirrione (3)
*1: Charles Nelson (3)
*1: Christopher Rouse (3)
*1: Lee Smith (3)
*1: Joe Walker (3)
*1: Peter Zinner (3)
*1: Hal Ashby (2)
*1: Conrad Buff (2)
*1: James Cameron (2)
*1: Richard Chew (2)
*1: Jim Clark (2)
*1: Tom Cross (2)
*1: Alfonso Cuarón (2)
*1: Adrienne Fazan (2)
*1: Verna Fields (2)
*1: John Gilbert (2)
*1: Richard A. Harris (2)
*1: Alan Heim (2)
*1: Paul Hirsch (2)
*1: Robert J. Kern (2)
*1: Marcia Lucas (2)
*1: Michael McCusker (2)
*1: Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2)
*1: Thom Noble (2)
*1: Robert Parrish (2)
*1: Gene Ruggiero (2)

*1: Claire Simpson (2)
*1: Cotton Warburton (2)
*1: Elmo Williams (2)
*0: Gerry Hambling (6)
*0: Frederic Knudtson (6)
*0: Al Clark (5)
*0: Warren Low (4)
*0: Michael Luciano (4)
*0: Richard Marks (4)
*0: Dorothy Spencer (4)
*0: Dede Allen (3)
*0: Philip W. Anderson (3)
*0: Jay Cassidy (3)
*0: Hank Corwin (3)
*0: Richard Francis-Bruce (3)
*0: Stuart Gilmore (3)
*0: Doane Harrison (3)
*0: Pembroke J. Herring (3)
*0: Robert C. Jones (3)
*0: Ralph Kemplen (3)
*0: Sam O'Steen (3)
*0: Steven Rosenblum (3)
*0: William Steinkamp (3)
*0: Frank J. Urioste (3)
*0: Ferris Webster (3)
*0: Robert L. Wolfe (3)
*0: William H. Ziegler (3)
*0: Tariq Anwar (2)
*0: Stuart Baird (2)
*0: Alan Baumgarten (2)
*0: Samuel E. Beetley (2)
*0: Danford B. Greene (2)

*0: Walter Hannemann (2)
*0: Roderick Jaynes (2)
*0: Sheldon Kahn (2)
*0: Myron Kerstein (2)
*0: Saar Klein (2)
*0: Viola Lawrence (2)
*0: Chris Lebenzon (2)
*0: Louis R. Loeffler (2)
*0: Barry Malkin (2)
*0: Owen Marks (2)
*0: Pamela Martin (2)
*0: Yorgos Mavropsaridis (2)
*0: Craig McKay (2)
*0: Sally Menke (2)
*0: Otto Meyer (2)
*0: Frank Morriss (2)
*0: Eve Newman (2)
*0: Paul Rubell (2)
*0: Arthur P. Schmidt (2)
*0: Bud S. Smith (2)
*0: Tim Squyres (2)
*0: Crispin Struthers (2)
*0: Robert Swink (2)
*0: Kevin Tent (2)
*0: Walter A. Thompson (2)
*0: Dylan Tichenor (2)
*0: Sherman Todd (2)
*0: Dennis Virkler (2)
*0: Billy Weber (2)
*0: Andrew Weisblum (2)
*0: Juliette Welfling (2)
*0: John Wright (2)

See also

* BAFTA Award for Best Editing
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing
* American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
* American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
* List of Academy Award–nominated films

References

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