The art of the film editor is often one of the most difficult to see, as it should be. A good film editor chooses the best shots, the right moments for a close-up to heighten the emotion, the best take from what might be many. They construct the moving images into a coherent narrative story, and a simple cut here or an insert shot there can change an entire performance or the entire meaning of a scene.
2025:
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
2024:
ANORA
2023:
OPPENHEIMER
2022:
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
2021:
DUNE
2020:
SOUND OF METAL
2019:
FORD v FERRARI
2018:
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
2017:
DUNKIRK
2016:
HACKSAW RIDGE
2015:
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
2014:
WHIPLASH
2013:
GRAVITY
2012:
ARGO
2011:
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
2010:
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
2009:
THE HURT LOCKER
2008:
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
2007:
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
2006:
THE DEPARTED
2005:
CRASH
2004:
THE AVIATOR
2003:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
2002:
CHICAGO
2001:
BLACK HAWK DOWN
2000:
TRAFFIC
1999:
THE MATRIX
1998:
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
1997:
TITANIC
1996:
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
1995:
APOLLO 13
1994:
FORREST GUMP
1993:
SCHINDLER'S LIST
1992:
UNFORGIVEN
1991:
JFK
1990:
DANCES WITH WOLVES
1989:
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
1988:
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
1987:
THE LAST EMPEROR
1986:
PLATOON
1985:
WITNESS
1984:
THE KILLING FIELDS
1983:
THE RIGHT STUFF
1982:
GANDHI
1981:
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
1980:
RAGING BULL
1979:
ALL THAT JAZZ
1978:
THE DEER HUNTER
1977:
STAR WARS
1976:
ROCKY
1975:
JAWS
1974:
THE TOWERING INFERNO
1973:
THE STING
1972:
CABARET
1971:
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
1970:
PATTON
1969:
Z
1968:
BULLITT
1967:
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
1966:
GRAND PRIX
1965:
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
1964:
MARY POPPINS
1963:
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
1962:
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
1961:
WEST SIDE STORY
1960:
THE APARTMENT
1959:
BEN-HUR
1958:
GIGI
1957:
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
1956:
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
1955:
PICNIC
1954:
ON THE WATERFRONT
1953:
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
1952:
HIGH NOON
1951:
A PLACE IN THE SUN
1950:
KING SOLOMON'S MINES
1949:
CHAMPION
1948:
THE NAKED CITY
1947:
BODY AND SOUL
1946:
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
1945:
NATIONAL VELVET
1944:
WILSON
1943:
AIR FORCE
1942:
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
1941:
SERGEANT YORK
1940:
NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE
1939:
GONE WITH THE WIND
1938:
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
1937:
LOST HORIZON
1936:
ANTHONY ADVERSE
1935:
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
1934:
ESKIMO
