1930s
Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934.

1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig
Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens
One Night of Love - Gene Milford

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
Come and Get It - Edward Curtiss
The Great Ziegfeld - William S. Gray
Lloyd's of London - Barbara McLean
A Tale of Two Cities - Conrad A. Nervig
Theodora Goes Wild - Otto Meyer

1937 Lost Horizon - Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
The Awful Truth - Al Clark
Captains Courageous - Elmo Vernon
The Good Earth - Basil Wrangell
100 Men and a Girl - Bernard W. Burton

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
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Charles Frend
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Gene Havlick, Al Clark
The Rains Came - Barbara McLean
Stagecoach - Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer

1940s

1940 North West Mounted Police - Anne Bauchens
The Grapes of Wrath - Robert E. Simpson
The Letter - Warren Low
The Long Voyage Home - Sherman Todd
Rebecca - Hal C. Kern

1941 Sergeant York - William Holmes
Citizen Kane - Robert Wise
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Harold F. Kress
How Green Was My Valley - James B. Clark
The Little Foxes - Daniel Mandell

1942 The Pride of the Yankees - Daniel Mandell
Mrs. Miniver - Harold F. Kress
The Talk of the Town - Otto Meyer
This Above All - Walter Thompson
Yankee Doodle Dandy - George Amy

1943 Air Force - George Amy
Casablanca - Owen Marks
Five Graves to Cairo - Doane Harrison
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Sherman Todd. John Link
The Song of Bernadette - Barbara McLean

1944 Wilson - Barbara McLean
Going My Way - Leroy Stone
Janie - Owen Marks
None But the Lonely Heart - Roland Gross
Since You Went Away - Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom

1945 National Velvet - Robert J. Kern
The Bells of St. Mary's - Harry Marker
The Lost Weekend - Doane Harrison
Objective, Burma! - George Amy
A Song to Remember - Charles Nelson

1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Daniel Mandell
It's a Wonderful Life - William Hornbeck
The Jolson Story - William A. Lyon
The Killers - Arthur Hilton
The Yearling - Harold Kress

1947 Body and Soul - Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
The Bishop's Wife - Monica Collingwood
Gentleman's Agreement - Harmon Jones
Green Dolphin Street - George White
Odd Man Out - Fergus McDonnell

1948 The Naked City - Paul Weatherwax
Joan of Arc - Frank Sullivan
Johnny Belinda - David Weisbart
Red River - Christian Nyby
The Red Shoes - Reginald Mills

1949 Champion - Harry Gerstad
All the King's Men - Robert Parrish, Al Clark
Battleground - John Dunning
Sands of Iwo Jima - Richard L. Van Enger
The Window - Frederic Knudtson

1950s

1950 King Solomon's Mines - Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig
All About Eve - Barbara McLean
Annie Get Your Gun - James E. Newcom
Sunset Boulevard - Arthur Schmidt, Doane Harrison
The Third Man - Oswald Hafenrichter

1951 A Place in the Sun - William Hornbeck
An American in Paris - Adrienne Fazan
Decision Before Dawn - Johnny Green, Dorothy Spencer
Quo Vadis - Ralph E. Winters
The Well - Cester Schaeffer

1952 High Noon - Elmo Williams, Harry Gerstad
Come Back, Little Sheba - Warren Low
Flat Top - William Austin
The Greatest Show on Earth - Anne Bauchens
Moulin Rouge - Ralph Kemplen

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
The Caine Mutiny - Willam A. Lyon
The High and the Moghty - Ralph Dawson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Ralph E. Winters
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Elmo Williams

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
Anatomy of a Murder - Louis R. Loeffler
North by Northwest - George Tomasini
The Nun's Story - Walter Thompson
On the Beach - Frederic Knudtson

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
Fanny - William H. Reynolds
The Guns of Navarone - Alan Osbiston
Judgment at Nuremberg - Frederic Knudtson
The Parent Trap - Philip W. Anderson

1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Anne Coates
The Longest Day - Samuel E. Beetley
The Manchurian Candidate - Ferris Webster
The Music Man - William Ziegler
Mutiny on the Bounty - John McSweeney, Jr.

1963 How the West Was Won - Harold F. Kress
The Cardinal - Louis R. Loeffler
Cleopatra - Dorothy Spencer
The Great Escape - Ferris Webster
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr.

1964 Mary Poppins - Cotton Warburton
Becket - Anne Coates
Father Goose - Ted J. Kent
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Michael Luciano
My Fair Lady - William Ziegler

1965 The Sound of Music - William 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 - Frederic Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, Frank Santillo
Fantastic Voyage - William B. Murphy
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming - Hal Ashby, J. Terry Williams
The Sand Pebbles - William Reynolds
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Sam O'Steen

1967 In the Heat of the Night - Hal Ashby
Beach Red - Frank P. Keller
The Dirty Dozen - Michael Luciano
Doctor Dolittle - Samuel E. Beetly, Marjorie Fowler
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Robert C. Jones

1968 Bullitt - Frank P. Keller
Funny Girl - Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands
The Odd Couple - Frank Bracht
Oliver! - John Green
Wild in the Streets - Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman

1969 Z - Françoise Bonnot
Hello, Dolly! - William Reynolds
Midnight Cowboy - Hugh A. Robertson
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - William Lyon, Earle Herdan
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Frederic Steinkamp

1970s

1970 Patton - Hugh S. Fowler
Airport - Stuart Gilmore
M*A*S*H - Danford B. Greene
Tora! Tora! Tora! - James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya
Woodstock - Thelma Schoonmaker

1971 The French Connection - Gerald B. Greenberg
The Andromeda Strain - Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes
A Clockwork Orange - Bill Butler
Kotch - Ralph E. Winters
Summer of '42 - Folmar Blangsted

1972 Cabaret - David Bretherton
Deliverance - Tom Priestly
The Godfather - William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
The Hot Rock - Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
The Poseidon Adventure - Harold F. Kress

1973 The Sting - William Reynolds
American Graffiti - Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas
The Day of the Jackal - Ralph Kemplen
The Exorcist - Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Frank P. Keller, James Galloway

1974 The Towering Inferno - Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress
Blazing Saddles - John C. Howard, Danford Greene
Chinatown - Sam O'Steen
Earthquake - Dorothy Spencer
The Longest Yard - Michael Luciano

1975 Jaws - Verna Fields
Dog Day Afternoon - Dede Allen
The Man Who Would Be King - Russell Lloyd
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
Three Days of the Condor - Frederic Steinkamp, Don Guidice

1976 Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe
Bound for Glory - Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
Network - Alan Heim
Two-Minute Warning - Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann

1977 Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Michael Kahn
Julia - Walter Murch, Marcel Durham
Smokey and the Bandit - Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
The Turning Point - William Reynolds

1978 The Deer Hunter - Peter Zinner
The Boys from Brazil - Robert E. Swink
Coming Home - Don Zimmerman
Midnight Express - Gerry Hambling
Superman - Stuart Baird

1979 All That Jazz - Alan Heim
Apocalypse Now - Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman
The Black Stallion - Robert Dalva
Kramer vs. Kramer - Gerald B. Greenberg
The Rose - Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O'Meara

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
Chariots of Fire - Terry Rawlings
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Bloom
On Golden Pond - Robert L. Wolfe
Reds - Shirley Russell

1982 Gandhi - John Bloom
Das Boot - Hannes Nikel
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Carol Littleton
An Officer and a Gentleman - Peter Zinner
Tootsie - Frederic Steinkamp, William Steinkamp

1983 The Right Stuff - Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Steward, Tom Rolf
Blue Thunder - Frank Morris, Edward Abroms
Flashdance - Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
Silkwood - Sam O'Steen
Terms of Endearment - Richard Marks

1984 The Killing Fields - Jim Clark
Amadeus - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
The Cotton Club - Barry Malkin, Robert O. Lovett
A Passage to India - David Lean
Romancing the Stone - Donn Cambern, Frank Morriss

1985 Witness - Thom Noble
A Chorus Line - John Bloom
Out of Africa - Frederic Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn
Prizzi's Honor - Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr
Runaway Train - Henry Richardson

1986 Platoon - Claire Simpson
Aliens - Ray Lovejoy
Hannah and Her Sisters - Susan E. Morse
The Mission - Jim Clark
Top Gun - Billy Weber, Chris Lebenzon

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
Die Hard - Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossy - Stuart Baird
Mississippi Burning - Gerry Hambling
Rain Man - Stu Linder

1989 Born on the Fourth of July - David Brenner, Joe Hutshing
Driving Miss Daisy - Mark Warner
The Fabulous Baker Boys - William Steinkamp
Glory - Steven Rosenbloom
The Bear (L'Ours) (France) - Noëlle Boisson

1990s

1990 Dances with Wolves - Noel Travis
Ghost - Walter Murch
The Godfather Part III - Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch
Goodfellas - Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hunt for Red October - Dennis Virkler, John Wright

1991 JFK - Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia
The Commitments - Gerry Hambling
The Silence of the Lambs - Craig McKay
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Thelma and Louise - Thom Noble

1992 Unforgiven - Joel Cox
Basic Instinct - Frank J. Urioste
The Crying Game - Kant Pan
A Few Good Men - Robert Leighton
The Player - Geraldine Peroni

1993 Schindler's List - Michael Kahn
The Fugitive - Dennis Virkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Richard Nord, Dov Hoenig
In the Line of Fire - Anne V. Coates
In the Name of the Father - Gerry Hambling
The Piano - Veronika Jenet

1994 Forrest Gump - Arthur Schmidt
Hoop Dreams - Frederick Marx, Steve James, William Haugse
Pulp Fiction - Sally Manke
The Shawshank Redemption - Richard Francis-Bruce
Speed - John Wright

1995 Apollo 13 - Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
Babe - Marcus D'Arcy, Jay Friedkin
Braveheart - Steven Rosenbloom
Crimson Tide - Chris Lebenzon
Seven - Richard Francis-Bruce

1996 The English Patient - Walter Murch
Evita - Gerry Hambling
Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Jerry Maguire - Joe Hutshing
Shine - Pip Karmel

1997 Titanic - Conrad Biff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
Air Force One - Richard Francis-Bruce
As Good as It Gets - Richard Marks
Good Will Hunting - Pietro Scalia
L.A. Confidential - Peter Honess

1998 Saving Private Ryan - Michael Kahn
Out of Sight - Anne V. Coates
Shakespeare in Love - David Gamble
The Thin Red Line - Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, Saar Klein
Life Is Beautiful - Simona Paggi
With the rise of digital non-linear editing systems, the award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999:

1999 The Matrix - Zach Sternberg
American Beauty - Tariq Anwar
The Cider House Rules - Lisa Zeno Churgin
The Insider - William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell, David Rosenbloom
The Sixth Sense - Andrew Mondshein

2000s

2000 Traffic - Stephen Mirrione
Almost Famous - Joe Hutshing, Saar Klein
Gladiator - Pietro Scalia
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tim Squyres
Wonder Boys - Dede Allen

2001 Black Hawk Down - Pietro Scalia
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - John Gilbert
A Beautiful Mind - Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
Memento - Dody Dorn
Moulin Rouge! - Jill Bilcock

2002 Chicago - Martin Walsh
Gangs of New York - Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hours - Peter Boyle
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - D. Michael Horton
The Pianist - Hervé de Luze

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Jamie Selkirk
City of God - Daniel Rezende
Cold Mountain - Walter Murch
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Lee Smith
Seabiscuit - William Goldenberg

2004 The Aviator - Thelma Schoonmaker
Collateral - Jim Miller and Paul Rubell
Finding Neverland - Matt Chesse
Million Dollar Baby - Joel Cox
Ray - Paul Hirsch

2005 Crash - Hughes Winborne
Mike Hill and Dan Hanley Cinderella Man
Claire Simpson The Constant Gardener
Michael Kahn Munich
Michael McCusker Walk the Line