BAFTA Award for Best Editing

Best Editing is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize a film editor who has delivered outstanding editing in a film.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 1966, selected editors have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Editing at an annual ceremony. Traditionally, four films have been nominated each year until 2000, when the Academy expanded the annual number of nominees to five. Only twice the predetermined limit was exceeded: in 1992, when, due to a tie in the vote, there were five nominees, and in 2008, when there were six nominees.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category; only the principal editor(s) for each film are named, which excludes additional editors, supervising editors, etc. The actual winner of Best Editing is selected by "Chapter Voting"; only Academy members who are identified as members of the Editing Chapter vote on the winner.

Winners and nominees
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Multiple nominations

 * 11 nominations
 * Thelma Schoonmaker


 * 7 nominations
 * Michael Kahn


 * 6 nominations
 * Gerry Hambling
 * Stephen Mirrione


 * 5 nominations
 * Susan E. Morse
 * Walter Murch
 * Pietro Scalia


 * 4 nominations
 * Jill Bilcock
 * John Bloom
 * Jim Clark
 * Anne V. Coates
 * Tom Cross
 * Antony Gibbs
 * Joe Walker


 * 3 nominations
 * Tariq Anwar
 * Richard Chew
 * William Goldenberg
 * Gerald B. Greenberg
 * Daniel P. Hanley
 * Mike Hill
 * Jon Gregory
 * Richard Marks
 * Sally Menke
 * Terry Rawlings
 * Christopher Rouse
 * Arthur Schmidt
 * Lee Smith


 * 2 nominations
 * Stuart Baird
 * Kirk Baxter
 * Françoise Bonnot
 * James Cameron
 * Hank Corwin
 * Douglas Crise
 * Alfonso Cuarón
 * John Gilbert
 * John Gilroy
 * Alan Heim
 * Roderick Jaynes
 * Ralph Kemplen
 * Jennifer Lame
 * Marcia Lucas
 * Yorgos Mavropsaridis
 * Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
 * Thom Noble
 * Sam O'Steen
 * John Ottman
 * Geraldine Peroni
 * Tom Priestley
 * Fred Raskin
 * Claire Simpson
 * Tim Squyres
 * Dylan Tichenor
 * Lesley Walker
 * Angus Wall
 * Freddie Wilson
 * Peter Zinner

Multiple wins

 * 3 wins
 * Gerry Hambling


 * 2 wins
 * Richard Chew
 * Jim Clark
 * Tom Cross
 * Michael Kahn
 * Walter Murch
 * Christopher Rouse
 * Pietro Scalia
 * Thelma Schoonmaker
 * Claire Simpson