Academy Award for Film Editing

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

1980s

• 1980 Raging Bull - Thelma Schoonmaker
• Coal Miner's Daughter - Arthur Schmidt
• The Competition - David Blewitt
• The Elephant Man - Anne V. Coates
• Fame - Gerry Hambling
• 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark - Michael Kahn
• Chariots of Fire - Terry Rawlings
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Bloom
• On Golden Pond - Robert L. Wolfe
• Reds - Shirley Russell
• 1982 Gandhi - John Bloom
• Das Boot - Hannes Nikel
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Carol Littleton
• An Officer and a Gentleman - Peter Zinner
• Tootsie - Frederic Steinkamp, William Steinkamp
• 1983 The Right Stuff - Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Steward, Tom Rolf
• Blue Thunder - Frank Morris, Edward Abroms
• Flashdance - Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
• Silkwood - Sam O'Steen
• Terms of Endearment - Richard Marks
• 1984 The Killing Fields - Jim Clark
• Amadeus - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
• The Cotton Club - Barry Malkin, Robert O. Lovett
• A Passage to India - David Lean
• Romancing the Stone - DonnCambern, Frank Morriss
• 1985 Witness - Thom Noble
• A Chorus Line - John Bloom
• Out of Africa - Frederic Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn
• Prizzi's Honor - Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr
• Runaway Train - Henry Richardson
• 1986 Platoon - Claire Simpson
• Aliens - Ray Lovejoy
• Hannah and Her Sisters - Susan E. Morse
• The Mission - Jim Clark
• Top Gun - Billy Weber, Chris Lebenzon
• 1987 The Last Emperor - Gabriella Cristiani
• Broadcast News - Richard Marks
• Empire of the Sun - Michael Kahn
• Fatal Attraction - Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
• RoboCop - Frank J. Urioste
• 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Arthur Schmidt
• Die Hard - Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossy - Stuart Baird
• Mississippi Burning - Gerry Hambling
• Rain Man - Stu Linder
• 1989 Born on the Fourth of July - David Brenner, Joe Hutshing
• Driving Miss Daisy - Mark Warner
• The Fabulous Baker Boys - William Steinkamp
• Glory - Steven Rosenbloom
• The Bear (L'Ours) (France) - Noëlle Boisson