The Academy Award for Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it 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. The New York Times published an article by Mark Harris in 2008 discussing the award.[1] Nominations for this particular "Oscar" award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. Since 1981, every film selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. Harris notes that this correlation may surprise the many moviegoers who are unaware of the role of editing (the "invisible art") in moviemaking.
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 generally eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the members of the Editing Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; there were 233 members of the Editing Branch in 2008.[1]. 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.[2] 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.[3]
A publicly accessible database of Academy Award nominations and awards is maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been used to generate the following listing.[4] A listing of the editors with the largest numbers of awards and of nominations is presented in the "Superlatives" section at the end of this article.
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1930s
- 1934 Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent (see Ray Mala) - 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 (Film Editor)
- 1937 Lost Horizon - Gene Havlick, Gene Milford
- The Awful Truth - Al Clark
- Captains Courageous - Elmo Vernon
- The Good Earth - Basil Wrangell
- One Hundred 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 L. 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
- 1943 Air Force - George Amy
- Casablanca - Owen Marks
- Five Graves to Cairo - Doane Harrison
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Sherman Todd and 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 and 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
- 1947 Body and Soul - Francis Lyon and 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
- 1949 Champion - Harry Gerstad
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
- 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
- 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
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
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Anne V. 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
- 1964 Mary Poppins - Cotton Warburton
- Becket - Anne V. Coates
- Father Goose - Ted J. Kent
- Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Michael Luciano
- My Fair Lady - William Ziegler
- 1965 The Sound of Music - William H. 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 - Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, Frank Santillo
- 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! - Ralph Kemplen
- Wild in the Streets - Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
- 1969 Z - Françoise Bonnot
1970s
- 1970 Patton - Hugh S. Fowler
- Airport - Stuart Gilmore
- MASH - 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 (posthumous nomination), 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 H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner
- The Hot Rock - Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
- The Poseidon Adventure - Harold F. Kress
- 1973 The Sting - William H. 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 - Fredric Steinkamp, Don Guidice
- 1976 Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
- All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe
- Bound for Glory - Robert C. 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 H. 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 (posthumous nomination)
- Reds - Dede Allen, Craig McKay
- 1982 Gandhi - John Bloom
- 1983 The Right Stuff - Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Steward, Tom Rolf
- Blue Thunder - Frank Morriss, 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 - Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn
- Prizzi's Honor - Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr
- Runaway Train - Henry Richardson
- 1986 Platoon - Claire Simpson
- 1987 The Last Emperor - Gabriella Cristiani
- 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Arthur Schmidt
- 1989 Born on the Fourth of July - David Brenner, Joe Hutshing
- Driving Miss Daisy - Mark Warner
- The Fabulous Baker Boys - William Steinkamp
- Glory - Steven Rosenblum
- The Bear (L'Ours) (France) - Noëlle Boisson
1990s
- 1990 Dances with Wolves - Neil 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
- 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 Menke
- 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 Rosenblum
- Crimson Tide - Chris Lebenzon
- Seven - Richard Francis-Bruce
- 1996 The English Patient - Walter Murch
- Evita - Gerry Hambling
- Fargo - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (as Roderick Jaynes)
- Jerry Maguire - Joe Hutshing
- Shine - Pip Karmel
- 1997 Titanic - Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris
- 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 Staenberg
2000s
- 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum - Christopher Rouse
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Juliette Welfling
- Into the Wild - Jay Cassidy
- No Country for Old Men - Roderick Jaynes (Jaynes is a pseudonym for the Coen Brothers.)
- There Will Be Blood - Dylan Tichenor
Superlatives
The following table lists the editors with the largest numbers of Academy Awards and with the largest numbers of nominations.[5]
| Editor | Nominations | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Kahn | 7 | 3 |
| Barbara McLean | 7 | 1 |
| William Reynolds | 7 | 2 |
| Gerry Hambling | 6 | 0 |
| Frederic Knudtson | 6 | 0 |
| Harold Kress | 6 | 2 |
| William Lyon | 6 | 2 |
| Walter Murch | 6 | 1 |
| Thelma Schoonmaker | 6 | 3 |
| Ralph Winters | 6 | 2 |
| Al Clark | 5 | 0 |
| Anne Coates | 5 | 1 |
| Daniel Mandell | 5 | 3 |
| Fredric Steinkamp | 5 | 1 |
| Ralph Dawson | 4 | 3 |
| Joe Hutshing | 4 | 2 |
| Pietro Scalia | 4 | 2 |
| Gene Milford | 3 | 2 |
| Conrad Nervig | 3 | 2 |
| Arthur Schmidt | 3 | 2 |
| Harry Gerstad | 2 | 2 |
| Paul Weatherwax | 2 | 2 |
References
- ^ a b Harris, Mark (2008). "Which Editing is a Cut Above?", New York Times, January 6, 2008.
- ^ "Rule Thirteen - Special Rules for the Film Editing Award", from 79th Academy Awards Rules for Distinguished Achievements in 2006. Online version retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ "Orange British Academy Film Awards: Rules and Guidelines 2008-2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. http://static.bafta.org/files/rule-book-bafta-film-awards-0809-23.pdf. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ^ "Academy Awards and the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved January 14, 2009. No webpage explicitly listing the nominees and awardees by category, etc., is maintained by the Academy. The Academy's search engine will generate a list of all nominations and winners for a specific award category (such as "editing") by entering the necessary range of dates.
- ^ "Film Editing Facts". Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. March, 2008. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/filmeditingfacts.html.
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