Saturn Award for Best Editing

The Saturn Award for Best Editing (originally Saturn Award for Outstanding Editing) is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the 5th Saturn Awards.^[1]

Saturn Award for Best Editing
Awarded for	Best editing of the year for a genre film
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First award	1977
Currently held by	Jennifer Lame for Oppenheimer (2022/2023)
Website	www.saturnawards.org

The award was discontinued after being awarded again at the following ceremony, but was reactivated for the 38th ceremony in 2012. Paul Hirsch, who won the inaugural award for Star Wars (1977), sharing the award with Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew, won it again thirty-four years later for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011);^[1] he is currently the only editor to have won it twice.^[2]

Winners and nominees

1970s

Year	Editors	Film
1977 (5th)	Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (Juried)	Star Wars
1978 (6th)	Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (Juried)	Piranha

2010s

Year	Editor(s)	Film
2011 (38th) [3]	Paul Hirsch	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
	Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey	Super 8
	Mark Day	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
	Michael Kahn	The Adventures of Tintin
	Thelma Schoonmaker	Hugo
	Christian Wagner, Fred Raskin, and Kelly Matsumoto	Fast Five
2012 (39th) [4]	Alexander Berner	Cloud Atlas
	Stuart Baird and Kate Baird	Skyfall
	Bob Ducsay	Looper
	Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek	The Avengers
	John Gilroy	The Bourne Legacy
	Tim Squyres	Life of Pi
2013 (40th) [5]	Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger	Gravity
	Peter Amundson and John Gilroy	Pacific Rim
	Alan Edward Bell	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
	Mark Day	About Time
	Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill	Rush
	Christian Wagner, Kelly Matsumoto, and Dylan Highsmith	Fast & Furious 6
2014 (41st) [6]	James Herbert and Laura Jennings	Edge of Tomorrow
	Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt	Captain America: The Winter Soldier
	William Goldenberg and Tim Squyres	Unbroken
	John Ottman	X-Men: Days of Future Past
	Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne, and Craig Wood	Guardians of the Galaxy
	Lee Smith	Interstellar
2015 (42nd) [7]	Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey	Star Wars: The Force Awakens
	Eddie Hamilton and Jon Harris	Kingsman: The Secret Service
	Dan Lebental and Colby Parker, Jr.	Ant-Man
	Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Kevin Stitt	Jurassic World
	Christian Wagner, Dylan Highsmith, Kirk Morri, and Leigh Folsom Boyd	Furious 7
2016 (43rd) [8]	Michael Kahn	The BFG
	Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt	Captain America: Civil War
	John Gilroy, Colin Goudie, and Jabez Olssen	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
	Stefan Grube	10 Cloverfield Lane
	Mark Livolsi	The Jungle Book
	Joe Walker	Arrival
2017 (44th) [9]	Bob Ducsay	Star Wars: The Last Jedi
	Debbie Berman and Michael P. Shawver	Black Panther
	Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt	Logan
	Gregory Plotkin	Get Out
	Paul Rubell and Christian Wagner	The Fate of the Furious
	Sidney Wolinsky	The Shape of Water
2018/2019 (45th) [10]	Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt	Avengers: Endgame
	James Herbert	Aladdin
	Nicholas Monsour	Us
	Kirk Morri	Aquaman
	Evan Schiff	John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
	Christopher Tellefsen	A Quiet Place
2019/2020 (46th) [11]	Bob Ducsay	Knives Out
	Maryann Brandon and Stefan Grube	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
	Mike Flanagan	Doctor Sleep
	Yang Jin-mo	Parasite
	Jennifer Lame	Tenet
	Fred Raskin	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year	Editor(s)	Film
2021/2022 (50th) [12]	Eddie Hamilton	Top Gun: Maverick
	Jeffrey Ford and Leigh Folsom Boyd	Spider-Man: No Way Home
	William Hoy and Tyler Nelson	The Batman
	Cam McLauchlin	Nightmare Alley
	Nicholas Monsour	Nope
	Paul Rogers	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Pietro Scalia, Doug Brandt, and Calvin Wimmer	Ambulance
2022/2023 (51st) [13]	Jennifer Lame	Oppenheimer
	Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, and James Cameron	Avatar: The Way of Water
	Dylan Highsmith, Kelly Matsumoto, Corbin Mehl, and Laura Yanovich	Fast X
	Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, and Dirk Westervelt	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
	Nathan Orloff	John Wick: Chapter 4
	Eddie Hamilton	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Multiple nominations

5 nominations

• Jeffrey Ford

4 nominations

• Christian Wagner

3 nominations

• Maryann Brandon
• Bob Ducsay
• John Gilroy
• Eddie Hamilton
• Dylan Highsmith
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Fred Raskin
• Matthew Schmidt

2 nominations

• Leigh Folsom Boyd
• Mark Day
• Stefan Grube
• James Herbert
• Michael Kahn
• Jennifer Lame
• Mary Jo Markey
• Michael McCusker
• Nicholas Monsour
• Kirk Morri
• Tim Squyres
• Dirk Westervelt

Multiple wins

2 wins

• Bob Ducsay
• Paul Hirsch