Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first presented in 2013, with American editor Nat Sanders being the first recipient of the award for his work in Short Term 12.

Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing
Awarded for	Best Editing
Country	United States
Presented by	Film Independent
First award	2013
Currently held by	Hansjörg Weißbrich for September 5 (2024)
Website	www.filmindependent.org

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2013 [1]	Short Term 12	Nat Sanders
	Upstream Color	Shane Carruth and David Lowery
	Museum Hours	Jem Cohen and Marc Vives
	Frances Ha	Jennifer Lame
	Una noche	Cindy Lee
2014 [2]	Whiplash	Tom Cross
	Boyhood	Sandra Adair
	Nightcrawler	John Gilroy
	A Most Violent Year	Ron Patane
	The Guest	Adam Wingard
2015 [3]	Spotlight	Tom McArdle
	Heaven Knows What	Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie
	Room	Nathan Nugent
	It Follows	Julio C. Perez IV
	Manos sucias	Kristan Sprague
2016 [4]	Moonlight	Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders
	Swiss Army Man	Matthew Hannam
	Manchester by the Sea	Jennifer Lame
	Hell or High Water	Jake Roberts
	Jackie	Sebastián Sepúlveda
2017 [5]	I, Tonya	Tatiana S. Riegel
	Good Time	Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie
	Call Me by Your Name	Walter Fasano
	The Rider	Alex O'Flinn
	Get Out	Gregory Plotkin
2018 [6]	You Were Never Really Here	Joe Bini
	We the Animals	Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates, and Jeremiah Zagar
	American Animals	Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart
	The Tale	Anne Fabini, Alex Hall, and Gary Levy
	Mid90s	Nick Houy
2019 [7]	Uncut Gems	Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie
	The Third Wife	Julie Béziau
	Sword of Trust	Tyler L. Cook
	The Lighthouse	Louise Ford
	Give Me Liberty	Kirill Mikhanovsky

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 [8]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	The Invisible Man	Andy Canny
	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Scott Cummings
	Residue	Merawi Gerima
	I Carry You with Me	Enat Sidi
2021 [9]	Zola	Joi McMillon
	A Chiara	Affonso Gonçalves
	The Nowhere Inn	Ali Greer
	The Novice	Lauren Hadaway and Nathan Nugent
	The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain	Enrico Natale
2022 [10]	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Paul Rogers
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley
	The Cathedral	Ricky D'Ambrose
	Aftersun	Blair McClendon
	Tár	Monika Willi
2023 [11]	How to Blow Up a Pipeline	Daniel Garber
	Rotting in the Sun	Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz and Sofía Subercaseaux
	We Grown Now	Stephanie Filo
	Theater Camp	Jon Philpot
	Upon Entry	Emanuele Tiziani
2024 [12]	September 5	Hansjörg Weißbrich
	Jazzy	Laura Colwell and Vanara Taing
	The Apprentice	Olivier Bugge Coutté and Olivia Neergaard-Holm
	Nightbitch	Anne McCabe
	Dìdi	Arielle Zakowski

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Editing
• Academy Award for Best Film Editing
• Critics' Choice Movie 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