Academy Award for Best Film Editing
annual award for Best Film Editing
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Presented by
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- First award
- February 27, 1935 ; 91 years ago ( 1935-02-27 ) (for films released in 1934 )
- Most recent winner
- Andy Jurgensen , One Battle After Another ( 2025 )
- Website
- oscars .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
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Thelma Schoonmaker (left) and Columba Powell (right) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Schoonmaker is among the deans of film editing; Powell is the son of Michael Powell, a prominent film director to whom Schoonmaker was married until his death in 1990. Conrad A. Nervig was the inaugural winner, winning for Eskimo (1933). He also won for King Solomon's Mines (1950), alongside Ralph E. Winters.
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and only 38 of the 98 Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible.