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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing, introduced in 1935 at the 7th Academy Awards, is presented annually for the best achievement in editing in a film from the previous year.

Sorted Chronologically by Awards Year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Ralph Dawson, Michael Kahn, Daniel Mandell, & Thelma Schoonmaker (3)
Most Nominations: Thelma Schoonmaker (9)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Gerry Hambling & Frederic Knudtson (6)

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  • Eskimo

    1

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    2

  • Anthony Adverse

    3

  • Lost Horizon

    4

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    5

  • Gone with the Wind

    6

  • North West Mounted Police

    7

  • Sergeant York

    8

  • The Pride of the Yankees

    9

  • Air Force

    10

  • Wilson

    11

  • National Velvet

    12

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    13

  • Body and Soul

    14

  • The Naked City

    15

  • Champion

    16

  • King Solomon's Mines

    17

  • A Place in the Sun

    18

  • High Noon

    19

  • From Here to Eternity

    20

  • On the Waterfront

    21

  • Picnic

    22

  • Around the World in 80 Days

    23

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    24

  • Gigi

    25

  • Ben-Hur

    26

  • The Apartment

    27

  • West Side Story

    28

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    29

  • How the West Was Won

    30

  • Mary Poppins

    31

  • The Sound of Music

    32

  • Grand Prix

    33

  • In the Heat of the Night

    34

  • Bullitt

    35

  • Z

    36

  • Patton

    37

  • The French Connection

    38

  • Cabaret

    39

  • The Sting

    40

  • The Towering Inferno

    41

  • Jaws

    42

  • Rocky

    43

  • Star Wars

    44

  • The Deer Hunter

    45

  • All That Jazz

    46

  • Raging Bull

    47

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    48

  • Gandhi

    49

  • The Right Stuff

    50

  • The Killing Fields

    51

  • Witness

    52

  • Platoon

    53

  • The Last Emperor

    54

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    55

  • Born on the Fourth of July

    56

  • Dances with Wolves

    57

  • JFK

    58

  • Unforgiven

    59

  • Schindler's List

    60

  • Forrest Gump

    61

  • Apollo 13

    62

  • The English Patient

    63

  • Titanic

    64

  • Saving Private Ryan

    65

  • The Matrix

    66

  • Traffic

    67

  • Black Hawk Down

    68

  • Chicago

    69

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    70

  • The Aviator

    71

  • Crash

    72

  • The Departed

    73

  • The Bourne Ultimatum

    74

  • Slumdog Millionaire

    75

  • The Hurt Locker

    76

  • The Social Network

    77

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    78

  • Argo

    79

  • Gravity

    80

  • Whiplash

    81

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    82

  • Hacksaw Ridge

    83

  • Dunkirk

    84

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    85

  • Ford v Ferrari

    86

  • Sound of Metal

    87

  • Dune

    88

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    89

  • Oppenheimer

    90

  • Anora

    91

  • One Battle After Another

    92