Who Won Film Editing Oscars?

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Academy Award: Film Editing

From "Eskimo" in 1935 to "Oppenheimer" in 2024, the Academy Awards have recognized great achievement in film editing throughout the years. Other classic films to have won the Oscar for Film Editing include "The Matrix", "Forrest Gump", "Jaws", "The Sound of Music" and "Gone With the Wind".

2024 (96th)
OppenheimerOppenheimer
Jennifer Lame, editor
Other Nominees: Anatomy Of A Fall; The Holdovers; Killers Of The Flower Moon; Poor Things
2023 (95th)
Everything Everywhere All At OnceEverything Everywhere All At Once
Paul Rogers
Other Nominees: The Banshees Of Inisherin; Elvis; Tar; Top Gun: Maverick
2022 (94th)
DuneDune
Joe Walker
Other Nominees: Don't Look Up; King Richard; The Power of the Dog; Tick, Tick... Boom!
2021 (93rd)
Sound of MetalSound of Metal
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Other Nominees: The Father; Nomadland; Promising Young Woman; The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Year      
2020 Ford v Ferrari Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker Ford v Ferrari
2019 Bohemian Rhapsody John Ottman Bohemian Rhapsody
2018 Dunkirk Lee Smith Dunkirk
2017 Hacksaw Ridge   Hacksaw Ridge
2016 Mad Max: Fury Road Margaret Sixel Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 Whiplash Tom Cross Whiplash
2014 Gravity Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger Gravity
2013 Argo William Goldenberg Argo
2012 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
2011 The Social Network Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter The Social Network
2010 The Hurt Locker Bob Murawski and Chris Innis The Hurt Locker
2009 Slumdog Millionaire Chris Dickens Slumdog Millionaire
2008 The Bourne Ultimatum Christopher Rouse The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 The Departed Thelma Schoonmaker The Departed
2006 Crash Hughes Winborne Crash
2005 The Aviator Thelma Schoonmaker The Aviator
2004 The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Jamie Selkirk The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
2003 Chicago Martin Walsh Chicago
2002 Black Hawk Down Pietro Scalia Black Hawk Down
2001 Traffic Stephen Mirrione Traffic
2000 The Matrix Zach Staenberg The Matrix
1999 Saving Private Ryan Michael Kahn Saving Private Ryan
1998 Titanic Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris Titanic
1997 The English Patient Walter Murch The English Patient
1996 Apollo 13 Mike Hill, Dan Hanley Apollo 13
1995 Forrest Gump Arthur Schmidt Forrest Gump
1994 Schindler's List Michael Kahn Schindler's List
1993 Unforgiven Joel Cox Unforgiven
1992 JFK Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia JFK
1991 Dances With Wolves Neil Travis Dances With Wolves
1990 Born On The Fourth Of July David Brenner & Joe Hutshing Born On The Fourth Of July
1989 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Arthur Schmidt Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 The Last Emperor Gabriella Cristiani The Last Emperor
1987 Platoon Claire Simpson Platoon
1986 Witness Thom Noble Witness
1985 The Killing Fields Jim Clark The Killing Fields
1984 The Right Stuff Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf The Right Stuff
1983 Gandhi John Bloom Gandhi
1982 Raiders Of The Lost Ark Michael Kahn Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1981 Raging Bull Thelma Schoonmaker Raging Bull
1980 All That Jazz Alan Heim All That Jazz
1979 The Deer Hunter Peter Zinner The Deer Hunter
1978 Star Wars Paul Hirsch; Marcia Lucas; Richard Chew  
1977 Rocky Richard Halsey; Scott Conrad Rocky
1976 Jaws Verna Fields  
1975 The Towering Inferno Harold F Kress; Carl Kress  
1974 The Sting William Reynolds The Sting
1973 Cabaret David Bretherton Cabaret

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1972 The French Connection  
Jerry Greenberg
Other Nominees: The Andromeda Strain; A Clockwork Orange; Kotch; Summer of '42
1971 Patton  
Hugh S Fowler
Other Nominees: Airport; M*A*S*H; Tora!Tora! Tora!; Woodstock
1970 Z  
Francoise Bonnot
Other Nominees: Hello Dolly!; Midnight Cowboy; The Secret of Santa Vittoria; They Shoot Horses Don't They?
1969 Bullitt  
Frank P Keller
Other Nominees: Funny Girl; The Odd Couple; Oliver!; Wild In the Streets
1968 In The Heat Of The Night  
Hal Ashby
Other Nominees: Beach Red; The Dirty Dozen; Doctor Dolittle; Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
1967 Grand Prix  
Fredric Steinkamp; Henry Berman; Stewart Linder; Frank Santillo
Other Nominees: Frantastic Voyage; The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming; The Sand Pebbles; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 The Sound Of Music  
William Reynolds
Other Nominees: Cat Ballou; Doctor Zhivago; The Flight of the Phoenix; The Great Race
1965 Mary Poppins  
Cotton Warburton
Other Nominees: Becket; Father Goose; Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; My Fair Lady
1964 How the West Was Won  
Harold F Kress
Other Nominees: The Cardinal; Cleopatra; The Great Escape; It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963 Lawrence of Arabia  
Anne Coates
Other Nominees: The Longest Day; The Manchurian Candidate; The Music Man; Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 West Side Story  
Thomas Stanford
Other Nominees: Fanny; The Guns of Navarone; Judgment at Nuremberg; The Parent Trap
1961 The Apartment  
Daniel Mandell
Other Nominees: The Alamo; Inherit the Wind; Pepe; Spartacus
1960 Ben-Hur  
Ralph E Winters; John D Dunning
Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder; North by Northwest; The Nun's Story; On the Beach
1959 Gigi  
Adrienne Fazan
Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Cowboy; The Defiant Ones; I Want To Live!
1958 The Bridge On The River Kwai  
Peter Taylor
Other Nominees: Gunfight At the O.K. Corral; Pal Joey; Sayonara; Witness For the Prosecution
1957 Around The World In 80 Days  
Gene Ruggiero; Paul Weatherwax
Other Nominees: The Brave One; Giant; Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Ten Commandments
1956 Picnic  
Charles Nelson; William A Lyon
Other Nominees: Blackboard Jungle; The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Oklahoma!; The Rose Tattoo
1955 On The Waterfront  
Gene Milford
Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny; The High and the Mighty; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 20000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 From Here To Eternity  
William Lyon
Other Nominees: Crazylegs; The Moon Is Blue; Roman Holiday; The War of the Worlds
1953 High Noon  
Elmo Williams; Harry Gerstad
Other Nominees: Come Back Little Sheba; Flat Top; The Greatest Show On Earth; Moulin Rouge
1952 A Place In The Sun  
William Hornbeck
Other Nominees: An American In Paris; Decision Before Dawn; Quo Vadis; The Well
1951 King Solomon's Mines  
Ralph E Winters; Conrad A Nervig
Other Nominees: All About Eve; Annie Get Your Gun; Sunset Blvd; The Third Man
1950 Champion  
Harry Gerstad
Other Nominees: All the King's Men; Battleground; Sands of Iwo Jima; The Window
1949 The Naked City  
Paul Weatherwax
Other Nominees: Joan of Arc; Johnny Belinda; Red River; The Red Shoes
1948 Body and Soul  
Francis Lyon; Robert Parrish
Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife; Gentleman's Agreement; Green Dolphin Street; Odd Man Out
1947 The Best Years Of Our Lives  
Daniel Mandell
Other Nominees: It's A Wonderful Life; The Jolson Story; The Killers; The Yearling
1946 National Velvet  
Robert J Kern
Other Nominees: The Bells of St Mary's; The Lost Weekend; Objective Burma!; A Song To Remember
1945 Wilson  
Barbara McLean
Other Nominees: Going My Way; Janie; None But the Lonely Heart; Since You Went Away
1944 Air Force  
George Amy
Other Nominees: Casablanca; Five Graves To Cairo; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Song of Bernadette
1943 The Pride of the Yankees  
Daniel Mandell
Other Nominees: Mrs Miniver; The Talk of the Town; This Above All; Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 Sergeant York  
William Holmes
Other Nominees: Citizen Kane; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; How Green Was My Valley; The Little Foxes
1941 North West Mounted Police  
Anne Bauchens
Other Nominees: The Grapes of Wrath; The Letter; The Long Voyage Home; Rebecca
1940 Gone With the Wind  
Hal C Kern; James E Newcom
Other Nominees: Goodbye Mr Chips; Mr Smith Goes To Washington; The Rains Came; Stagecoach
1939 The Adventures of Robin Hood  
Ralph Dawson
Other Nominees: Alexander's Ragtime Band; The Great Waltz; Test Pilot; You Can't Take It With You
1938 Lost Horizon  
Gene Havlick; Gene Milford
Other Nominees: The Awful Truth; Captains Courageous; The Good Earth; One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937 Anthony Adverse  
Ralph Dawson
Other Nominees: Come and Get It; The Great Ziegfeld; Lloyds of London; A Tale of Two Cities; Theodora Goes Wild
1936 A Midsummer Night's Dream  
Ralph Dawson
Other Nominees: David Copperfield; The Informer; Les Miserables; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer; Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 Eskimo  
Conrad Nervig
Other Nominees: Cleopatra; One Night Of Love