| Year |
Picture |
Editor |
| 1934 |
Eskimo |
Conrad A. Nervig |
| 1935 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Ralph Dawson |
| 1936 |
Anthony Adverse |
Ralph Dawson |
| 1937 |
Lost Horizon |
Gene Havlick, Gene Milford |
| 1938 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Ralph Dawson |
| 1939 |
Gone with the Wind |
Hal C. Kern, James E. Mewcom |
| 1940 |
North West Mounted Police |
Anne Bauchens |
| 1941 |
Sergeant York |
William Holmes |
| 1942 |
The Pride of the Yankees |
Daniel Mandell |
| 1943 |
Air Force |
George Amy |
| 1944 |
Wilson |
Barbara McLean |
| 1945 |
National Velvet |
Robert J. Kern |
| 1946 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
Daniel Mandell |
| 1947 |
Body and Soul |
Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish |
| 1948 |
The Naked City |
Paul Weatherwax |
| 1949 |
Champion |
Harry Gerstad |
| 1950 |
King Solomon's Mines |
Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig |
| 1951 |
A Place in the Sun |
William Hornbeck |
| 1952 |
High Noon |
Elmo Williams, Harry Gerstad |
| 1953 |
From Here to Eternity |
William A. Lyon |
| 1954 |
On the Waterfront |
Gene Milford |
| 1955 |
Picnic |
Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon |
| 1956 |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax |
| 1957 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Peter Taylor |
| 1958 |
Gigi |
Adrienne Fazan |
| 1959 |
Ben-Hur |
Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning |
| 1960 |
The Apartment |
Daniel Mandell |
| 1961 |
West Side Story |
Thomas Stanford |
| 1962 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
Anne Coates |
| 1963 |
How the West Was Won |
Harold F. Kress |
| 1964 |
Mary Poppins |
Cotton Warburton |
| 1965 |
The Sound of Music |
William Reynolds |
| 1966 |
Grand Prix |
Frederic Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, Frank Santillo |
| 1967 |
In the Heat of the Night |
Hal Ashby |
| 1968 |
Bullitt |
Frank P. Keller |
| 1969 |
Z |
Françoise Bonnot |
| 1970 |
Patton |
Hugh S. Fowler |
| 1971 |
The French Connection |
Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 1972 |
Cabaret |
David Bretherton |
| 1973 |
The Sting |
William Reynolds |
| 1974 |
The Towering Inferno |
Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress |
| 1975 |
Jaws |
Verna Fields |
| 1976 |
Rocky |
Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad |
| 1977 |
Star Wars |
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew |
| 1978 |
The Deer Hunter |
Peter Zinner |
| 1979 |
All That Jazz |
Alan Heim |
| 1980 |
Raging Bull |
Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 1981 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Michael Kahn |
| 1982 |
Gandhi |
John Bloom |
| 1983 |
The Right Stuff |
Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Steward,
Tom Rolf |
| 1984 |
The Killing Fields |
Jim Clark |
| 1985 |
Witness |
Thom Noble |
| 1986 |
Platoon |
Claire Simpson |
| 1987 |
The Last Emperor |
Gabriella Cristiani |
| 1988 |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Arthur Schmidt |
| 1989 |
Born on the Fourth of July |
David Brenner, Joe Hutshing |
| 1990 |
Dances with Wolves |
Noel Travis |
| 1991 |
JFK |
Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia |
| 1992 |
Unforgiven |
Joel Cox |
| 1993 |
Schindler's List |
Michael Kahn |
| 1994 |
Forrest Gump |
Arthur Schmidt |
| 1995 |
Apollo 13 |
Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley |
| 1996 |
The English Patient |
Walter Murch |
| 1997 |
Titanic |
Conrad Biff IV, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris |
| 1998 |
Saving Private Ryan |
Michael Kahn |
| 1999 |
The Matrix |
Zach Sternberg |
| 2000 |
Traffic |
Stephen Mirrione |
| 2001 |
Black Hawk Down |
Pietro Scalia |
| 2002 |
Chicago |
Martin Walsh |
| 2003 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Jamie Selkirk |
| 2004 |
The Aviator |
Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2005 |
Crash |
Hughes Winborne |
| 2006 |
The Departed |
Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 2007 |
The Bourne Ultimatum |
Christopher Rouse |
| 2008 |
Chris Dickens |
Slumdog Millionaire |
