Precursor History: American Cinema Editors

Category Details

Category Active: 1961 – Present

Key

Precursor Winner
[O] – Oscar Nominee
[O] – Oscar Winner

Decade Shortcuts

2020s | 2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s

2020s

60th American Cinema Editors (2020)

(Awards: Mar. 11, 2021)

Best Drama Editing

Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
I Care a Lot
On the Rocks
Palm Springs
Promising Young Woman

Best Animation Editing

The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary Editing

All In: The Fight for Democracy
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

2010s

59th American Cinema Editors (2019)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Joker
Marriage Story
Parasite

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Dolemite Is My Name
The Farewell
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Animation Editing

Frozen II
I Lost My Body
Toy Story 4

Best Documentary Editing

American Factory
Apollo 11
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

58th American Cinema Editors (2018)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Crazy Rich Asians
Deadpool 2
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice

Best Animation Editing

Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Editing

Free Solo
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

57th American Cinema Editors (2017)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Molly’s Game
The Post
The Shape of Water

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Baby Driver
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animation Editing

Coco
Despicable Me 3
The Lego Batman Movie

Best Documentary Editing

Cries from Syria
Jane
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
LA 92

56th American Cinema Editors (2016)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Deadpool
Hail, Caesar!
The Jungle Book
La La Land
The Lobster

Best Animation Editing

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Zootopia

Best Documentary Editing

Amanda Knox
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
O.J.: Made in America
13th
Weiner

55th American Cinema Editors (2015)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Ant-Man
The Big Short
Joy
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Trainwreck

Best Animation Editing

Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out

Best Documentary Editing

Amy
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Wrecking Crew!

54th American Cinema Editors (2014)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

American Sniper
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Nightcarwler
Whiplash

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods

Best Animation Editing

Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
The Lego Movie

Best Documentary Editing

CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

53rd American Cinema Editors (2013)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Captain Phillips
Gravity
Her
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

American Hustle
August: Osage County
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animation Editing

Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University

Best Documentary Editing

Blackfish
Tim’s Vermeer
20 Feet from Stardom

52nd (2012)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted

Best Animation Editing

Brave
Frankenweenie
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary Editing

Samsara
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis

51st (2011)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
War Horse

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

The Artist
Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Young Adult

Best Animation Editing

The Adventures of Tintin
Puss in Boots
Rango

Best Documentary Editing

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Freedom Riders
George Harrison: Living in the Material World

50th (2010)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Alice in Wonderland
Easy A
The Kids Are All Right
Made in Dagenham
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best Animation Editing

Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3

Best Documentary Editing

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job
Waiting for “Superman”

2000s

49th (2009)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up in the Air

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
A Serious Man

Best Animation Editing

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up

Best Documentary Editing

The Cove
Food, Inc.
This Is It

48th (2008)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

In Bruges
Mamma Mia!
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
WALL-E

Best Documentary Editing

Chicago 10
Frontline – “Bush’s War”
Man on Wire

47th American Cinema Editors (2007)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

The Bourne Ultimatum
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Hairspray
Juno
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ratatouille
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Documentary Editing

Darfur Now
The Pixar Story
Sicko

46th American Cinema Editors (2006)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Babel
Casino Royale
The Departed
The Queen
United 93

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Thank You for Smoking

Best Documentary Editing

Baghdad ER
An Inconvenient Truth
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts – “Part One”

45th American Cinema Editors (2005)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Munich

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Family Stone
Pride & Prejudice
Walk the Line
Wedding Crashers

Best Documentary Editing

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Family Stone
Pride & Prejudice
Walk the Line
Wedding Crashers

44th American Cinema Editors (2004)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

The Aviator
Collateral
Finding Neverland
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

De-Lovely
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
Ray
Sideways

Best Documentary Editing

Fahrenheit 9/11
My Architect
Riding Giants

43th American Cinema Editors (2003)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Cold Mountain
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Bend It Like Beckham
Finding Nemo
Lost in Translation
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
School of Rock

Best Documentary Editing

Capturing the Friedmans
The Fog of War
Spellbound

42th American Cinema Editors (2002)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

About Schmidt
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Minority Report

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

About a Boy
Adaptation.
Chicago
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Punch-Drunk Love

Best Documentary Editing

Bowling for Columbine
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Sounds of Memphis

41th American Cinema Editors (2001)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Amélie
Gosford Park
Monsters, Inc.
Moulin Rouge
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shrek

Best Documentary Editing

Chop Suey
The Endurance
New York: A Documentary Film

40th American Cinema Editors (2000)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

Billy Elliot
Cast Away
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Gladiator
Traffic

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Almost Famous
Best in Show
Chocolat
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Shanghai Noon

Best Documentary Editing

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Judy’s Time
Shooting War

1990s

39th American Cinema Editors (1999)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Drama Editing

American Beauty
The Insider
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Best Comedy/Musical Editing

Analyze This
Being John Malkovich
Election
Man on the Moon
Run Lola Run

Best Documentary Editing

Buena Vista Social Club
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Old Man River

38th American Cinema Editors (1998)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Horse Whisperer
Out of Sight
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line

Best Documentary Editing

The Cruise
Dancemaker
The Last Days

37th American Cinema Editors (1997)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Air Force One
As Good As It Gets
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
Titanic

Best Documentary Editing

Frank Capra’s American Dream
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Year of the Horse

36th American Cinema Editors (1996)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The English Patient
Evita
Fargo
The Rock
Shine

Best Documentary Editing

Looking for Richard
National Geographic Specials – “Last Feast of the Crocodiles”
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

35th American Cinema Editors (1995)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Apollo 13
Braveheart
Casino
Crimson Tide
The Usual Suspects

Best Documentary Editing

Crumb
30 Years of National Geographic Specials
Unzipped

34th American Cinema Editors (1994)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Speed
The Shawshank Redemption
True Lies

Best Documentary Editing

Africa: The Serengeti
Hoop Dreams
That’s Entertainment! III

33rd American Cinema Editors (1993)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Fugitive
In the Line of Fire
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
Schindler’s List

Best Documentary Editing

Baraka
National Geographic Specials – “Survivors of the Skeleton”
Visions of Light

32nd American Cinema Editors (1992)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

A Few Good Men
The Last of the Mohicans
The Player
Scenf of a Woman
Unforgiven

Best Documentary Editing

American Experience
Fires of Kuwait
MGM: When the Lion Roars

31st American Cinema Editors (1991)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

JFK
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Best Documentary Editing

Berkeley in the Sixties
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Madonna: Truth or Dare

30th American Cinema Editors (1990)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Dances with Wolves
Ghost
Good Fellas

Best Documentary Editing

The Civil War – Episode 9
Journey to the Forgotten River
This Report – Episode 1

1980s

29th American Cinema Editors (1989)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Born on the Fourth of July
Field of Dreams
Glory

Best Documentary Editing

Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
The Infinite Voyage – “The Great Dinosaur Hunt (#2.2)”
Roger & Me

28th American Cinema Editors (1988)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Mississippi Burning
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Documentary Editing

The Explorers: A Century of Discovery
Eyes on the Prize
The Thin Blue Line

27th American Cinema Editors (1987)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Broadcast News
The Last Emperor
Fatal Attraction

Best Documentary Editing

The Infinite Voyage – “Unseen Worlds (#1.1)
Lions of the African Night
Treasures from the Past

26th American Cinema Editors (1986)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Hoosiers
The Mission
Platoon

Best Documentary Editing

Grizzly: The Shining Mountains
Home Free: Return of the Bald Eagle
Mother Teresa
Realm of the Alligator

25th American Cinema Editors (1985)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Out of Africa
Runaway Train
Witness

Best Documentary Editing

Creation of the Universe
Land of the Tiger
The Statue of Liberty

24th American Cinema Editors (1984)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Amadeus
The Killing Fields
Romancing the Stone

Best Documentary Editing

Among the Wild Chimpanzees
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom

23rd American Cinema Editors (1983)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Flashdance
The Right Stuff
WarGames

Best Documentary Editing

Adapt or Die
Born of Fire
Say Amen, Somebody
The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time

22nd American Cinema Editors (1982)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Gandhi
Tootsie

Best Documentary Editing

Burden of Dreams
The Thames

21st American Cinema Editors (1981)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds

Best Documentary Editing

Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot
The Day After Trinity
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom – “Before the Storms of Winter”

20th American Cinema Editors (1980)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Coal Miner’s Daughter
Fame
Raging Bull

Best Documentary Editing

Can’t It Be Anyone Else
The Superliners: Twilight of an Era
Whatever Happened to Lori Jean Lloyd

1970s

19th American Cinema Editors (1979)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

All That Jazz
Apocalyspe Now
The Black Stallion

Best Documentary Editing

Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom – “Desert Spring”
National Geographic Specials – “Gold”

18th American Cinema Editors (1978)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Deer Hunter
Hooper
Superman

Best Documentary Editing

The Living Sands of Namib
Mickey’s 50
The Secret Life of Plants

17th American Cinema Editors (1977)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars
The Turning Point

Best Documentary Editing

Gentile Giants of the Pacific
Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
Oscar Presents: The War Movies and John Wayne

16th American Cinema Editors (1976)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

All the President’s Men
Network
Rocky

Best Documentary Editing

Life Goes to the Movies
The Memory of Justice
That’s Entertainment, Part II

15th American Cinema Editors (1975)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Hindenburg
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Best Documentary Editing

National Geographic Specials – “Search for the Great Apes”
National Geographic Specials – “This Britain… Heritage of the Sea”
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau – “The Seabirds of Isabela”

14th American Cinema Editors (1974)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Earthquake
The Longest Yard
The Towering Inferno

Best Documentary Editing

Beautiful People
Following the Tundra Wolf
That’s Entertainment!

13th American Cinema Editors (1973)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Day of the Jackal
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Sting

Best Documentary Editing

Flight of the Snow Geese
The Undersea World of Jacque Cousteau – “South to Fire and Ice”
Walls of Fire

12th American Cinema Editors (1972)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Cabaret
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure

Best Documentary Editing

The Bengal Tiger
Julie
The Undersea World of Jacque Cousteau – “Forgotten Mermaids”

11th American Cinema Editors (1971)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The African Elephant
Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection
Kotch
Summer of ’42
Willard

10th American Cinema Editors (1970)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Airport
The Great White Hope
M*A*S*H
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!

1960s

9th American Cinema Editors (1969)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hello, Dolly!
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

8th American Cinema Editors (1968)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

The Boston Strangler
Bullitt
Funny Girl
The Odd Couple
Oliver!

7th American Cinema Editors (1967)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Beach Red
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
Doctor Dolittle
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night

6th American Cinema Editors (1966)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Grand Prix
Fantastic Voyage
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

5th American Cinema Editors (1965)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Dear Brigitte
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Sound of Music
A Thousand Clowns
Tokyo Olympiad

Best Documentary Editing

A Slice of Sunday

4th American Cinema Editors (1964)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Becket
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
What a Way to Go!

3rd American Cinema Editors (1963)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Hud
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Tom Jones

2nd American Cinema Editors (1962)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Lawrence of Arabia
The Longest Day
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1st American Cinema Editors (1961)

(Awards: Jan. 0, 1900)

Best Editing

Fanny
Judgment at Nurember
The Parent Trap
Pocketful of Miracles
The Hustler