Every Oscars Best Film Editing winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 25 different winners.

Thelma Schoonmaker ×2

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.

Zach Staenberg'00

Stephen Mirrione'01

Pietro Scalia'02

Martin Walsh'03

Jamie Selkirk'04

Thelma Schoonmaker'05

Hughes Winborne'06

Thelma Schoonmaker'07

Christopher Rouse'08

Chris Dickens'09

Bob Murawski & Chris Innis'10

Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter'11

Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall'12

William Goldenberg'13

Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger'14

Tom Cross'15

Margaret Sixel'16

John Gilbert'17

Lee Smith'18

John Ottman'19

Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland'20

Mikkel E. G. Nielsen'21

Joe Walker'22

Paul Rogers'23

Jennifer Lame'24

Sean Baker'25

Wins by distributor

Warner Bros.831%
Sony415%
20th Century28%
Miramax28%
Summit Entertainment28%
Universal28%
Other623%

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Hank Corwin3 noms
Juliette Welfling2 noms
Kevin Tent2 noms
Michael Kahn2 noms
Mike Hill & Dan Hanley2 noms
Pamela Martin2 noms

Most losses

Thelma Schoonmaker4L · 2W
Hank Corwin3L · 0W
Joe Walker2L · 1W
Juliette Welfling2L · 0W
Kevin Tent2L · 0W
Lee Smith2L · 1W

The full list

Year	Winner	Distributor
2025	Sean Baker (Anora) beat 4 others Dávid Jancsó (The Brutalist) Nick Emerson (Conclave) Juliette Welfling (Emilia Pérez) Myron Kerstein (Wicked)	Neon
2024	Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer) beat 4 others Laurent Sénéchal (Anatomy of a Fall) Kevin Tent (The Holdovers) Thelma Schoonmaker (Killers of the Flower Moon) Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Poor Things)	Universal Pictures
2023	Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All at Once) beat 4 others Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (The Banshees of Inisherin) Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond (Elvis) Monika Willi (Tár) Eddie Hamilton (Top Gun: Maverick)	A24
2022	Joe Walker (Dune) beat 4 others Hank Corwin (Don't Look Up) Pamela Martin (King Richard) Peter Sciberras (The Power of the Dog) Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum (tick, tick... BOOM!)	Warner Bros.
2021	Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (Sound of Metal) beat 4 others Yorgos Lamprinos (The Father) Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) Frédéric Thoraval (Promising Young Woman) Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)	Amazon Studios
2020	Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland (Ford v Ferrari) beat 4 others Thelma Schoonmaker (The Irishman) Tom Eagles (Jojo Rabbit) Jeff Groth (Joker) Yang Jin-mo (Parasite)	20th Century Fox
2019	John Ottman (Bohemian Rhapsody) beat 4 others Barry Alexander Brown (BlacKkKlansman) Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favourite) Patrick J. Don Vito (Green Book) Hank Corwin (Vice)	20th Century Fox
2018	Lee Smith (Dunkirk) beat 4 others Paul Machliss & Jonathan Amos (Baby Driver) Tatiana S. Riegel (I, Tonya) Sidney Wolinsky (The Shape of Water) Jon Gregory (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)	Warner Bros.
2017	John Gilbert (Hacksaw Ridge) beat 4 others Joe Walker (Arrival) Jake Roberts (Hell or High Water) Tom Cross (La La Land) Nat Sanders & Joi McMillon (Moonlight)	Summit Entertainment
2016	Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road) beat 4 others Hank Corwin (The Big Short) Stephen Mirrione (The Revenant) Tom McArdle (Spotlight) Maryann Brandon & Mary Jo Markey (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)	Warner Bros.
2015	Tom Cross (Whiplash) beat 4 others Joel Cox & Gary D. Roach (American Sniper) Sandra Adair (Boyhood) Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel) William Goldenberg (The Imitation Game)	Sony Pictures Classics
2014	Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger (Gravity) beat 4 others Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave) Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten (American Hustle) Christopher Rouse (Captain Phillips) John Mac McMurphy & Martin Pensa (Dallas Buyers Club)	Warner Bros.
2013	William Goldenberg (Argo) beat 4 others Tim Squyres (Life of Pi) Michael Kahn (Lincoln) Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook) Dylan Tichenor & William Goldenberg (Zero Dark Thirty)	Warner Bros.
2012	Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) beat 4 others Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Kevin Tent (The Descendants) Thelma Schoonmaker (Hugo) Christopher Tellefsen (Moneyball)	Columbia Pictures
2011	Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter (The Social Network) beat 4 others Jon Harris (127 Hours) Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan) Pamela Martin (The Fighter) Tariq Anwar (The King's Speech)	Columbia Pictures
2010	Bob Murawski & Chris Innis (The Hurt Locker) beat 4 others Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua & James Cameron (Avatar) Julian Clarke (District 9) Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds) Joe Klotz (Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire)	Summit Entertainment
2009	Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire) beat 4 others Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Lee Smith (The Dark Knight) Mike Hill & Dan Hanley (Frost/Nixon) Elliot Graham (Milk)	Fox Searchlight Pictures
2008	Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum) beat 4 others Juliette Welfling (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) Jay Cassidy (Into the Wild) Roderick Jaynes (No Country for Old Men) Dylan Tichenor (There Will Be Blood)	Universal Pictures
2007	Thelma Schoonmaker (The Departed) beat 4 others Stephen Mirrione & Douglas Crise (Babel) Steven Rosenblum (Blood Diamond) Alfonso Cuarón & Alex Rodríguez (Children of Men) Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse & Richard Pearson (United 93)	Warner Bros.
2006	Hughes Winborne (Crash) beat 4 others Mike Hill & Dan Hanley (Cinderella Man) Claire Simpson (The Constant Gardener) Michael Kahn (Munich) Michael McCusker (Walk the Line)	Lionsgate
2005	Thelma Schoonmaker (The Aviator) beat 4 others Jim Miller & Paul Rubell (Collateral) Matt Chessé (Finding Neverland) Joel Cox (Million Dollar Baby) Paul Hirsch (Ray)	Miramax
2004	Jamie Selkirk (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) beat 4 others Daniel Rezende (City of God) Walter Murch (Cold Mountain) Lee Smith (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) William Goldenberg (Seabiscuit)	New Line Cinema
2003	Martin Walsh (Chicago) beat 4 others Thelma Schoonmaker (Gangs of New York) Peter Boyle (The Hours) Michael Horton (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) Hervé de Luze (The Pianist)	Miramax
2002	Pietro Scalia (Black Hawk Down) beat 4 others Mike Hill & Daniel P. Hanley (A Beautiful Mind) John Gilbert (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) Dody Dorn (Memento) Jill Bilcock (Moulin Rouge!)	Columbia Pictures
2001	Stephen Mirrione (Traffic) beat 4 others Joe Hutshing & Saar Klein (Almost Famous) Tim Squyres (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) Pietro Scalia (Gladiator) Dede Allen (Wonder Boys)	USA Films
2000	Zach Staenberg (The Matrix) beat 4 others Tariq Anwar & Christopher Greenbury (American Beauty) Lisa Zeno Churgin (The Cider House Rules) William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell & David Rosenbloom (The Insider) Andrew Mondshein (The Sixth Sense)	Warner Bros.

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