
From "Eskimo" in 1935 to "The Hurt Locker" in 2010, the Academy Awards have recognized great achievement in film editing throughout the years.
Other classic films to have won the Oscar for Film Editing include "The Matrix", "Forrest Gump", "Jaws", "The Sound of Music" and "Gone With the Wind".
| 2010 The Hurt Locker | |
| Bob Murawski; Chris Innis | |
| Other Nominees: Avatar; District 9; Inglourious Basterds; Precious | |
| 2009 Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Chris Dickens | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk | |
| 2008 The Bourne Ultimatum | |
| Christopher Rouse | |
| Other Nominees: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Into the Wild; No Country For Old Men; There Will Be Blood | |
| 2007 The Departed | |
| Thelma Schoonmaker | |
| Other Nominees: Babel; Blood Diamond; Children of Men; United 93 | |
| 2006 Crash | |
| Hughes Winbourne | |
| Other Nominees: Cinderella Man; The Constant Gardener; Munich; Walk the Line | |
| 2005 The Aviator | |
| Thelma Schoonmaker | |
| Other Nominees: Collateral; Finding Neverland; Million Dollar Baby; Ray | |
| 2004 The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King | |
| Jamie Selkirk | |
| Other Nominees: City of God; Cold Mountain; Master and Commander; Seabiscuit | |
| 2003 Chicago | |
| Martin Walsh | |
| Other Nominees: Gangs of New York; The Hours; Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Pianist | |
| 2002 Black Hawk Down | |
| Pietro Scalia | |
| Other Nominees: A Beautiful Mind; Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring; Memento; Moulin Rouge | |
| 2001 Traffic | |
| Stephen Mirrione | |
| Other Nominees: Almost Famous; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Gladiator; Wonder Boys | |
| 2000 The Matrix | |
| Zach Staenberg | |
| Other Nominees: American Beauty; The Cider House Rules; The Insider; The Sixth Sense | |
| 1999 Saving Private Ryan | |
| Michael Kahn | |
| Other Nominees: Life Is Beautiful; Out of Sight; Shakespeare In Love; The Thin Red Line | |
| 1998 Titanic | |
| Conrad Bluff; James Cameron; Richard A Harris | |
| Other Nominees: Air Force One; As Good As It Gets; Good Will Hunting; LA Confidential | |
| 1997 The English Patient | |
| Walter Murch | |
| Other Nominees: Evita; Fargo; Jerry Maguire; Shine | |
| 1996 Apollo 13 | |
| Mike Hill; Dan Hanley | |
| Other Nominees: Babe; Braveheart; Crimson Tide; Seven | |
| 1995 Forrest Gump | |
| Arthur Schmidt | |
| Other Nominees: Hoop Dreams; Pulp Fiction; The Shawshank Redemption; Speed | |
| 1994 Schindler's List | |
| Michael Kahn | |
| Other Nominees: The Fugitive; In the Line Of Fire; In the Name of the Father; The Piano | |
| 1993 Unforgiven | |
| Joel Cox | |
| Other Nominees: Basic Instinct; The Crying Game; A Few Good Men; The Player | |
| 1992 JFK | |
| Joe Hutshing; Pietro Scalia | |
| Other Nominees: The Commitments; The Silence of the Lambs; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Thelma & Louise | |
| 1991 Dances With Wolves | |
| Neil Travis | |
| Other Nominees: Ghost; The Godfather Part III; Good Fellas; The Hunt For Red October | |
| 1990 Born on the Fourth of July | |
| David Brenner; Joe Hutshing | |
| Other Nominees: The Bear; Driving Miss Daisy; The Fabulous Baker Boys; Glory | |
| 1989 Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
| Arthur Schmidt | |
| Other Nominees: Die Hard; Gorillas In the Mist; Mississippi Burning; Rain Man | |
| 1988 The Last Emperor | |
| Gabriella Cristiani | |
| Other Nominees: Broadcast News; Empire of the Sun; Fatal Attraction; RoboCop | |
| 1987 Platoon | |
| Claire Simpson | |
| Other Nominees: Aliens; Hannah and Her Sisters; The Mission; Top Gun | |
| 1986 Witness | |
| Thom Noble | |
| Other Nominees: A Chorus Line; Out Of Africa; Prizzi's Honor; Runaway Train | |
| 1985 The Killing Fields | |
| Jim Clark | |
| Other Nominees: Amadeus; The Cotton Club; A Passage To India; Romancing The Stone | |
| 1984 The Right Stuff | |
| Glenn Farr; Lisa Fruchtman; Stephen A Rotter; Douglas Stewart; Tom Rolf | |
| Other Nominees: Blue Thunder; Flashdance; Silkwood; Terms of Endearment | |
| 1983 Gandhi | |
| John Bloom | |
| Other Nominees: Das Boot; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial; An Officer And A Gentleman; Tootsie | |
| 1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark ("Raiders Of The Lost Ark") | |
| Michael Kahn | |
| Other Nominees: Chariots of Fire; The French Lieutenant's Woman; On Golden Pond; Reds | |
| 1981 Raging Bull | |
| Thelma Schoonmaker | |
| Other Nominees: Coal Miner's Daughter; The Competition; The Elephant Man; Fame | |
| 1980 All That Jazz | |
| Alan Heim | |
| Other Nominees: Apocalypse Now; The Black Stallion; Kramer vs Kramer; The Rose | |
| 1979 The Deer Hunter | |
| Peter Zinner | |
| Other Nominees: The Boys From Brazil; Coming Home; Midnight Express; Superman | |
| 1978 Star Wars | |
| Paul Hirsch; Marcia Lucas; Richard Chew | |
| Other Nominees: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Julia; Smokey and the Bandit; The Turning Point | |
| 1977 Rocky | |
| Richard Halsey; Scott Conrad | |
| Other Nominees: All the President's Men; Bound for Glory; Network; Two-Minute Warning | |
| 1976 Jaws | |
| Verna Fields | |
| Other Nominees: Dog Day Afternoon; The Man Who Would Be King; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Three Days Of the Condor | |
| 1975 The Towering Inferno | |
| Harold F Kress; Carl Kress | |
| Other Nominees: Blazing Saddles; Chinatown; Earthquake; The Longest Yard | |
| 1974 The Sting | |
| William Reynolds | |
| Other Nominees: American Graffiti; The Day of the Jackal; The Exorcist; Jonathan Livingston Seagull | |
| 1973 Cabaret | |
| David Bretherton | |
| Other Nominees: Deliverance; The Godfather; The Hot Rock; The Poseidon Adventure | |
| 1972 The French Connection | |
| Jerry Greenberg | |
| Other Nominees: The Andromeda Strain; A Clockwork Orange; Kotch; Summer of '42 | |
| 1971 Patton | |
| Hugh S Fowler | |
| Other Nominees: Airport; M*A*S*H; Tora!Tora! Tora!; Woodstock | |
| 1970 Z | |
| Francoise Bonnot | |
| Other Nominees: Hello Dolly!; Midnight Cowboy; The Secret of Santa Vittoria; They Shoot Horses Don't They? | |
| 1969 Bullitt | |
| Frank P Keller | |
| Other Nominees: Funny Girl; The Odd Couple; Oliver!; Wild In the Streets | |
| 1968 In The Heat Of The Night | |
| Hal Ashby | |
| Other Nominees: Beach Red; The Dirty Dozen; Doctor Dolittle; Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | |
| 1967 Grand Prix | |
| Fredric Steinkamp; Henry Berman; Stewart Linder; Frank Santillo | |
| Other Nominees: Frantastic Voyage; The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming; The Sand Pebbles; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| 1966 The Sound Of Music | |
| William Reynolds | |
| Other Nominees: Cat Ballou; Doctor Zhivago; The Flight of the Phoenix; The Great Race | |
| 1965 Mary Poppins | |
| Cotton Warburton | |
| Other Nominees: Becket; Father Goose; Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte; My Fair Lady | |
| 1964 How the West Was Won | |
| Harold F Kress | |
| Other Nominees: The Cardinal; Cleopatra; The Great Escape; It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World | |
| 1963 Lawrence of Arabia | |
| Anne Coates | |
| Other Nominees: The Longest Day; The Manchurian Candidate; The Music Man; Mutiny on the Bounty | |
| 1962 West Side Story | |
| Thomas Stanford | |
| Other Nominees: Fanny; The Guns of Navarone; Judgment at Nuremberg; The Parent Trap | |
| 1961 The Apartment | |
| Daniel Mandell | |
| Other Nominees: The Alamo; Inherit the Wind; Pepe; Spartacus | |
| 1960 Ben-Hur | |
| Ralph E Winters; John D Dunning | |
| Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder; North by Northwest; The Nun's Story; On the Beach | |
| 1959 Gigi | |
| Adrienne Fazan | |
| Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Cowboy; The Defiant Ones; I Want To Live! | |
| 1958 The Bridge On The River Kwai | |
| Peter Taylor | |
| Other Nominees: Gunfight At the O.K. Corral; Pal Joey; Sayonara; Witness For the Prosecution | |
| 1957 Around The World In 80 Days | |
| Gene Ruggiero; Paul Weatherwax | |
| Other Nominees: The Brave One; Giant; Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Ten Commandments | |
| 1956 Picnic | |
| Charles Nelson; William A Lyon | |
| Other Nominees: Blackboard Jungle; The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Oklahoma!; The Rose Tattoo | |
| 1955 On The Waterfront | |
| Gene Milford | |
| Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny; The High and the Mighty; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 20000 Leagues Under the Sea | |
| 1954 From Here To Eternity | |
| William Lyon | |
| Other Nominees: Crazylegs; The Moon Is Blue; Roman Holiday; The War of the Worlds | |
| 1953 High Noon | |
| Elmo Williams; Harry Gerstad | |
| Other Nominees: Come Back Little Sheba; Flat Top; The Greatest Show On Earth; Moulin Rouge | |
| 1952 A Place In The Sun | |
| William Hornbeck | |
| Other Nominees: An American In Paris; Decision Before Dawn; Quo Vadis; The Well | |
| 1951 King Solomon's Mines | |
| Ralph E Winters; Conrad A Nervig | |
| Other Nominees: All About Eve; Annie Get Your Gun; Sunset Blvd; The Third Man | |
| 1950 Champion | |
| Harry Gerstad | |
| Other Nominees: All the King's Men; Battleground; Sands of Iwo Jima; The Window | |
| 1949 The Naked City | |
| Paul Weatherwax | |
| Other Nominees: Joan of Arc; Johnny Belinda; Red River; The Red Shoes | |
| 1948 Body and Soul | |
| Francis Lyon; Robert Parrish | |
| Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife; Gentleman's Agreement; Green Dolphin Street; Odd Man Out | |
| 1947 The Best Years Of Our Lives | |
| Daniel Mandell | |
| Other Nominees: It's A Wonderful Life; The Jolson Story; The Killers; The Yearling | |
| 1946 National Velvet | |
| Robert J Kern | |
| Other Nominees: The Bells of St Mary's; The Lost Weekend; Objective Burma!; A Song To Remember | |
| 1945 Wilson | |
| Barbara McLean | |
| Other Nominees: Going My Way; Janie; None But the Lonely Heart; Since You Went Away | |
| 1944 Air Force | |
| George Amy | |
| Other Nominees: Casablanca; Five Graves To Cairo; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Song of Bernadette | |
| 1943 The Pride of the Yankees | |
| Daniel Mandell | |
| Other Nominees: Mrs Miniver; The Talk of the Town; This Above All; Yankee Doodle Dandy | |
| 1942 Sergeant York | |
| William Holmes | |
| Other Nominees: Citizen Kane; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; How Green Was My Valley; The Little Foxes | |
| 1941 North West Mounted Police | |
| Anne Bauchens | |
| Other Nominees: The Grapes of Wrath; The Letter; The Long Voyage Home; Rebecca | |
| 1940 Gone With the Wind | |
| Hal C Kern; James E Newcom | |
| Other Nominees: Goodbye Mr Chips; Mr Smith Goes To Washington; The Rains Came; Stagecoach | |
| 1939 The Adventures of Robin Hood | |
| Ralph Dawson | |
| Other Nominees: Alexander's Ragtime Band; The Great Waltz; Test Pilot; You Can't Take It With You | |
| 1938 Lost Horizon | |
| Gene Havlick; Gene Milford | |
| Other Nominees: The Awful Truth; Captains Courageous; The Good Earth; One Hundred Men and a Girl | |
| 1937 Anthony Adverse | |
| Ralph Dawson | |
| Other Nominees: Come and Get It; The Great Ziegfeld; Lloyds of London; A Tale of Two Cities; Theodora Goes Wild | |
| 1936 A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Ralph Dawson | |
| Other Nominees: David Copperfield; The Informer; Les Miserables; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer; Mutiny on the Bounty | |
| 1935 Eskimo | |
| Conrad Nervig | |
| Other Nominees: Cleopatra; One Night Of Love | |