Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing is one of the Critics' Choice Movie Awards given to people working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association. It was first given out in 2010.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Editor(s)	Ref.
2009	Avatar	James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin	[1]
	The Hurt Locker	Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
	Inglourious Basterds	Sally Menke
	Nine	Claire Simpson and Wyatt Smith
	Up in the Air	Dana E. Glauberman

2010s

Year	Film	Editor(s)	Ref.
2010	Inception	Lee Smith	[2]
	127 Hours	Jon Harris
	Black Swan	Andrew Weisblum
	The Social Network	Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall	[3]
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion
	Drive	Matthew Newman
	Hugo	Thelma Schoonmaker
	War Horse	Michael Kahn
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor	[4]
	Argo	William Goldenberg
	Les Misérables	Chris Dickens and Melanie Oliver
	Life of Pi	Tim Squyres
	Lincoln	Michael Kahn
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger	[5]
	12 Years a Slave	Joe Walker
	American Hustle	Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, and Crispin Struthers
	Captain Phillips	Christopher Rouse
	Rush	Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Thelma Schoonmaker
2014	Birdman	Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione	[6]
	Boyhood	Sandra Adair
	Gone Girl	Kirk Baxter
	Interstellar	Lee Smith
	Whiplash	Tom Cross
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	Margaret Sixel	[7]
	The Big Short	Hank Corwin
	The Martian	Pietro Scalia
	The Revenant	Stephen Mirrione
	Spotlight	Tom McArdle
2016	La La Land	Tom Cross	[8]
	Arrival	Joe Walker
	Hacksaw Ridge	John Gilbert
	Moonlight	Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders
	Sully	Blu Murray
2017	Baby Driver (TIE)	Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos (TIE)	[9]
	Dunkirk (TIE)	Lee Smith (TIE)
	Blade Runner 2049	Joe Walker
	The Post	Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar
	The Shape of Water	Sidney Wolinsky
2018	First Man	Tom Cross	[10]
	The Favourite	Yorgos Mavropsaridis
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough
	A Star Is Born	Jay Cassidy
	Vice	Hank Corwin
	Widows	Joe Walker
2019	1917	Lee Smith	[11]
	Ford v Ferrari	Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker
	The Irishman	Thelma Schoonmaker
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Fred Raskin
	Parasite	Yang Jin-mo
	Uncut Gems	Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie

2020s

Year	Film	Editor(s)	Ref.
2020	Sound of Metal (TIE)	Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (TIE)	[12]
	The Trial of the Chicago 7 (TIE)	Alan Baumgarten (TIE)
	The Father	Yorgos Lamprinos
	Mank	Kirk Baxter
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	Tenet	Jennifer Lame
2021	West Side Story	Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar	[13]
	Belfast	Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
	Dune	Joe Walker
	Licorice Pizza	Andy Jurgensen
	The Power of the Dog	Peter Sciberras
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Paul Rogers	[14]
	Avatar: The Way of Water	Stephen E. Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, and James Cameron
	Babylon	Tom Cross
	Elvis	Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
	Tár	Monika Willi
	Top Gun: Maverick	Eddie Hamilton
2023	Oppenheimer	Jennifer Lame	[15]
	Air	William Goldenberg
	Barbie	Nick Houy
	Poor Things	Yorgos Mavropsaridis
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Thelma Schoonmaker
	Maestro	Michelle Tesoro
2024	Challengers	Marco Costa	[16]
	Anora	Sean Baker
	Conclave	Nick Emerson
	The Brutalist	Dávid Jancsó
	Dune: Part Two	Joe Walker
	September 5	Hansjörg Weißbrich

Multiple winners

3 wins

• Lee Smith

2 wins

• Tom Cross

Multiple nominees (3 or more)

6 nominations

• Joe Walker

4 nominations

• Tom Cross
• Michael Kahn
• Thelma Schoonmaker
• Lee Smith

3 nominations

• Kirk Baxter
• William Goldenberg

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Editing
• Academy Award for Best Film Editing
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing
• American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
• American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical