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Academy Award for Best Film Editing - Nominees

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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WINNERS LIST | SITE MAP

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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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  • Cleopatra

    1

  • One Night of Love

    2

  • Eskimo

    3

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    4

  • David Copperfield

    5

  • The Informer

    6

  • Les Misérables

    7

  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    8

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    9

  • The Great Ziegfeld

    10

  • Anthony Adverse

    11

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    12

  • Come and Get It

    13

  • Lloyd's of London

    14

  • Theodora Goes Wild

    15

  • The Awful Truth

    16

  • Captains Courageous

    17

  • The Good Earth

    18

  • Lost Horizon

    19

  • One Hundred Men and a Girl

    20

  • You Can't Take It with You

    21

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood

    22

  • Alexander's Ragtime Band

    23

  • Test Pilot

    24

  • The Great Waltz

    25

  • Gone with the Wind

    26

  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    27

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    28

  • Stagecoach

    29

  • The Rains Came

    30

  • Rebecca

    31

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    32

  • The Letter

    33

  • The Long Voyage Home

    34

  • North West Mounted Police

    35

  • How Green Was My Valley

    36

  • Citizen Kane

    37

  • The Little Foxes

    38

  • Sergeant York

    39

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    40

  • Mrs. Miniver

    41

  • The Pride of the Yankees

    42

  • The Talk of the Town

    43

  • Yankee Doodle Dandy

    44

  • This Above All

    45

  • Casablanca

    46

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    47

  • The Song of Bernadette

    48

  • Air Force

    49

  • Five Graves to Cairo

    50

  • Going My Way

    51

  • Since You Went Away

    52

  • Wilson

    53

  • Janie

    54

  • None But the Lonely Heart

    55

  • The Lost Weekend

    56

  • The Bells of St. Mary's

    57

  • National Velvet

    58

  • Objective, Burma!

    59

  • A Song to Remember

    60

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    61

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    62

  • The Yearling

    63

  • The Jolson Story

    64

  • The Killers

    65

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    66

  • The Bishop's Wife

    67

  • Body and Soul

    68

  • Green Dolphin Street

    69

  • Odd Man Out

    70

  • Johnny Belinda

    71

  • The Red Shoes

    72

  • Joan of Arc

    73

  • The Naked City

    74

  • Red River

    75

  • All the King's Men

    76

  • Battleground

    77

  • Champion

    78

  • Sands of Iwo Jima

    79

  • The Window

    80

  • All About Eve

    81

  • King Solomon's Mines

    82

  • Sunset Boulevard

    83

  • Annie Get Your Gun

    84

  • The Third Man

    85

  • An American in Paris

    86

  • Decision Before Dawn

    87

  • A Place in the Sun

    88

  • Quo Vadis

    89

  • The Well

    90

  • The Greatest Show on Earth

    91

  • High Noon

    92

  • Moulin Rouge

    93

  • Come Back, Little Sheba

    94

  • Flat Top

    95

  • From Here to Eternity

    96

  • Roman Holiday

    97

  • Crazylegs

    98

  • The Moon Is Blue

    99

  • The War of the Worlds

    100