Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934.

1970s

• 1970 Patton - Hugh S. Fowler
• Airport - Stuart Gilmore
• M*A*S*H - Danford B. Greene
• Tora! Tora! Tora! - James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya
• Woodstock - Thelma Schoonmaker
• 1971 The French Connection - Gerald B. Greenberg
• The Andromeda Strain - Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes
• A Clockwork Orange - Bill Butler
• Kotch - Ralph E. Winters
• Summer of '42 - Folmar Blangsted
• 1972 Cabaret - David Bretherton
• Deliverance - Tom Priestly
• The Godfather - William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
• The Hot Rock - Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
• The Poseidon Adventure - Harold F. Kress
• 1973 The Sting - William Reynolds
• American Graffiti - Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas
• The Day of the Jackal - Ralph Kemplen
• The Exorcist - Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Frank P. Keller, James Galloway
• 1974 The Towering Inferno - Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress
• Blazing Saddles - John C. Howard, Danford Greene
• Chinatown - Sam O'Steen
• Earthquake - Dorothy Spencer
• The Longest Yard - Michael Luciano
• 1975 Jaws - Verna Fields
• Dog Day Afternoon - Dede Allen
• The Man Who Would Be King - Russell Lloyd
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
• Three Days of the Condor - Frederic Steinkamp, Don Guidice
• 1976 Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
• All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe
• Bound for Glory - Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
• Network - Alan Heim
• Two-Minute Warning - Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann
• 1977 Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Michael Kahn
• Julia - Walter Murch, Marcel Durham
• Smokey and the Bandit - Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
• The Turning Point - William Reynolds
• 1978 The Deer Hunter - Peter Zinner
• The Boys from Brazil - Robert E. Swink
• Coming Home - Don Zimmerman
• Midnight Express - Gerry Hambling
• Superman - Stuart Baird
• 1979 All That Jazz - Alan Heim
• Apocalypse Now - Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman
• The Black Stallion - Robert Dalva
• Kramer vs. Kramer - Gerald B. Greenberg
• The Rose - Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O'Meara