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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

<p>The <b>Academy Award for Best Film Editing</b> is one of the annual awards of the <a href="/en/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" class="wl">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</a> (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the <a href="/en/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture" class="wl">Academy Award for Best Picture</a>. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Harris_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-Harris-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> Only the principal, "<a href="/en/Above-the-line_(filmmaking)" title="Above-the-line (filmmaking)" class="wl">above the line</a>" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Rule13_3-0"><a href="#cite_note-Rule13-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span></p>

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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Country,...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vevent mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Academy Award for Best Film Editing</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data location"><a href="/en/United_States" title="United States" class="wl">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Presented by</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><a href="/en/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" class="wl">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</a> (AMPAS)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">First awarded</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/7th_Academy_Awards" title="7th Academy Awards" class="wl">1935</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Most recent winner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Paul_Rogers_(film_editor)" title="Paul Rogers (film editor)" class="wl">Paul Rogers</a> <br> <i><a href="/en/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once" title="Everything Everywhere All at Once" class="wl">Everything Everywhere All at Once</a></i> (<a href="/en/95th_Academy_Awards" title="95th Academy Awards" class="wl">2022</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 33%;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://oscars.org" class="external text" target="_blank">oscars<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>

<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right wiki-thumb"><a href="/en/File:ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg/220px-ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="388" data-file-type="bitmap" height="142" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg/330px-ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg/440px-ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg 2x" alt="ThelmaSchoonmaker.jpg"></a><figcaption><a href="/en/Thelma_Schoonmaker" title="Thelma Schoonmaker" class="wl">Thelma Schoonmaker</a> (left) and Columba Powell (right) at the <a href="/en/2009_Cannes_Film_Festival" title="2009 Cannes Film Festival" class="wl">2009 Cannes Film Festival</a>. Schoonmaker is among the deans of film editing; Powell is the son of <a href="/en/Michael_Powell" title="Michael Powell" class="wl">Michael Powell</a>, a prominent film director to whom Schoonmaker was married until his death in 1990.</figcaption></figure>

<p>The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[4]</span></a></span> 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.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Rule13_3-1"><a href="#cite_note-Rule13-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span> 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 <a href="/en/British_Academy_of_Film_and_Television_Arts" title="British Academy of Film and Television Arts" class="wl">British Academy of Film and Television Arts</a> (BAFTA); nominations for the <a href="/en/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Editing" title="BAFTA Award for Best Editing" class="wl">BAFTA Award for Best Editing</a> are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[5]</span></a></span></p>



The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012. 