Last Updated on 3 March 2025
1934-present: Wikipedia
| Year | Movie | Editors |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Jennifer Lame |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Paul Rogers |
| 2021 | Dune | Joe Walker |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Mikkel E.G. Nielsen |
| 2019 | Ford v Ferrari | Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker |
| 2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | John Ottman |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Richard King and Alex Gibson |
| 2016 | Hacksaw Ridge | John Gilbert |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Margaret Sixel |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Tom Cross |
| 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger |
| 2012 | Argo | William Goldenberg |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Chris Innis and Bob Murawski |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Chris Dickens |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Christopher Rouse |
| 2006 | The Departed | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2005 | Crash | Hughes Winborne |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Jamie Selkirk |
| 2002 | Chicago | Martin Walsh |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | Pietro Scalia |
| 2000 | Traffic | Stephen Mirrione |
| 1999 | The Matrix | Zach Staenberg |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Michael Kahn |
| 1997 | Titanic | Conrad Buff, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Walter Murch |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1993 | Schindler’s List | Michael Kahn |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Joel Cox |
| 1991 | JFK | Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves | Neil Travis |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | David Brenner and Joe Hutshing |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Arthur Schmidt |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Gabriella Cristiani |
| 1986 | Platoon | Claire SImpson |
| 1985 | Witness | Thom Noble |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Jim Clark |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf |
| 1982 | Gandhi | John Bloom |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Michael Kahn |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Alan Heim |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Peter Zinner |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew |
| 1976 | Rocky | Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad |
| 1975 | Jaws | Verna Fields |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Harold F. Kress and Carl Cress |
| 1973 | The Sting | William H. Reynolds |
| 1972 | Cabaret | David Bretherton |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 1970 | Patton | Hugh S. Fowler |
| 1969 | Z | Françoise Bonnot |
| 1968 | Bullitt | Frank P. Keller |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Hal Ashby |
| 1966 | Grand Prix | Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, and Frank Santillo |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | William H. Reynolds |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Cotton Warburton |
| 1963 | How the West Was Won | Harold F. Kress |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Anne V. Coates |
| 1961 | West Side Story | Thomas Stanford |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Daniel Mandell |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning |
| 1958 | Gigi | Adrienen Fazan |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Peter Taylor |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax |
| 1955 | Picnic | Charles Nelson and William A. Lyon |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Gene Milford |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | William A. Lyon |
| 1952 | High Noon | Elmo Williams and Harry Gerstad |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun | William Hornbeck |
| 1950 | King Solomon’s Mines | Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig |
| 1949 | Champion | Harry Gerstad |
| 1948 | The Naked City | Paul Weatherwax |
| 1947 | Body and Soul | Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Daniel Mandell |
| 1945 | National Velvet | Robert J. Kern |
| 1944 | Wilson | Barbara McLean |
| 1943 | Air Force | George Amy |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | Daniel Mandell |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | William Holmes |
| 1940 | North West Mounted Police | Anne Bauchens |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Ralph Dawson |
| 1937 | Lost Horizon | Gene Havlick and Gene Milford |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Ralph Dawson |
| 1935 | A Misdummer Night’s Dream | Ralph Dawson |
| 1934 | Eskimo | Conrad A. Nervig |
