Academy Award for Best Film Editing

This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.

Directors David Lean, Steve James, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (under the alias "Roderick Jaynes"), Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias "John Mac McMurphy"), Chloé Zhao and Sean Baker have been nominated for editing their own films as well, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice.

These films include Somebody Up There Likes Me, I Want to Live!, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, and The Andromeda Strain for Wise; Bound for Glory and Coming Home for Ashby; and Crazylegs for Lyon.

Superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[8] These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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 .