Best Film Editing Winners

Best Film Editing

After hours and hours of film have been shot it’s up to an editor, or a team of editors, to put the footage together to tell a story. They get to sift through the hours of takes to find just the right combination. Editors have a chance to define the way people will remember a film. Great editing can make a scene come alive with suspense, comedy, or terror. For their hard work editors have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1934. It’s interesting to note that more than 45 percent of the Best Picture winners have also won this award since it was created.

Here are the winners….

1934 – Eskimo

1935 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1936 – Anthony Adverse

1937 – Lost Horizon

1938 – The Adventures of Robin Hood

1939 – Gone with the Wind

1940 – North West Mounted Police

1941 – Sergeant York

1942 – The Pride of the Yankees

1943 – Air Force

1944 – Wilson

1945 – National Velvet

1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

1947 – Body and Soul

1948 – The Naked City

1949 – Champion

1950 – King Solomon’s Mine

1951 – A Place in the Sun

1952 – High Noon

1953 – From Here to Eternity

1954 – On the Waterfront

1955 – Picnic

1956 – Around the World in 80 Days

1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

1958 – Gigi

1959 – Ben-hur

1960 – The Apartment

1961 – West Side Story

1962 – Lawrence of Arabia

1963 – How the West Was Won

1964 – Mary Poppins

1965 – The Sound of Music

1966 – Grand Prix

1967 – In the Heat of the Night

1968 – Bullitt

1969 – Z

1970 – Patton

1971 – The French Connection

1972 – Cabaret

1973 – The Sting

1974 – The Towering Inferno

1975 – Jaws

1976 – Rocky

1977 – Star Wars

1978 – The Deer Hunter

1979 – All That Jazz

1980 – Raging Bull

1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982 – Gandhi

1983 – The Right Stuff

1984 – The Killing Fields

1985 – Witness

1986 – Platoon

1987 – The Last Emperor

1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

1989 – Born on the Fourth of July

1990 – Dances with Wolves

1991 – JFK

1992 – Unforgiven

1993 – Schindler’s List

1994 – Forrest Gump

1995 – Apollo 13

1996 – The English Patient

1997 – Titanic

1998 – Saving Private Ryan

1999 – The Matrix

2000 – Traffic

2001 – Black Hawk Down

2002 – Chicago

2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004 – The Aviator

2005 – Crash

2006 – The Departed

2007 – The Bourne Ultimatum

2008 – Slumdog Millionaire

2009 – The Hurt Locker

2010 – The Social Network

2011 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2012 – Argo

2013 – Gravity

2014 – Whiplash

 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road

2016 – Hacksaw Ridge