Category Details
Category Active: 1961 – Present
Note
The comparisons to Oscar below are based on the ACE’s correlation to Best Picture.
Key
Precursor Winner
[O] – Oscar Nominee
[O] – Oscar Winner
Decade Shortcuts
2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s
2010s
2013
DRAMA EDITING
Captain Phillips [O]
Gravity [O]
Her [O]
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
American Hustle [O]
August: Osage County
Inside Llewyn Davis [O]
Nebraska [O]
The Wolf of Wall Street [O]
2012
DRAMA EDITING
Argo [O]
Life of Pi [O]
Lincoln [O]
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misรฉrables [O]
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook [O]
Ted
2011
DRAMA EDITING
The Descendants [O]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo [O]
Moneyball [O]
War Horse [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
The Artist [O]
Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris [O]
My Week with Marilyn
Young Adult
2010
DRAMA EDITING
Black Swan [O]
The Fighter [O]
Inception [O]
The King’s Speech [O]
The Social Network [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Alice in Wonderland
Easy A
The Kids Are All Right [O]
Made in Dagenham
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
ANIMATION EDITING
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3 [O]
2000s
2009
DRAMA EDITING
Avatar [O]
District 9 [O]
The Hurt Locker [O]
Star Trek
Up in the Air [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
A Serious Man [O]
ANIMATION EDITING
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up [O]
2008
DRAMA EDITING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [O]
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon [O]
Milk [O]
Slumdog Millionaire [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
In Bruges
Mamma Mia
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
WALL-E
2007
DRAMA EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton [O]
No Country for Old Men [O]
There Will Be Blood [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Hairpsray
Juno [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ratatouille
Sweeney Todd
2006
DRAMA EDITING
Babel [O]
Casino Royale
The Departed [O]
The Queen [O]
United 93
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Thank You for Smoking
2005
DRAMA EDITING
Brokeback Mountain [O]
The Constant Gardener
Crash [O]
Good Night, and Good Luck [O]
Munich [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Family Stone
Pride & Prejudice
Wedding Crashers
Walk the Line
2004
DRAMA EDITING
The Aviator [O]
Collateral
Finding Neverland [O]
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Kinsey
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
De-Lovely
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
Ray [O]
Sideways [O]
2003
DRAMA EDITING
Cold Mountain
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King{O} [O]
Master and Commander [O]
Mystic River [O]
Seabiscuit [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Bend It Like Beckham
Finding Nemo
Lost in Translation [O]
Pirates of the Caribbean
School of Rock
2002
DRAMA EDITING
About Schmidt
Gangs of New York [O]
The Hours [O]
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [O]
Minority Report
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
About a Boy
Adaptation
Chicago [O]
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Punch-Drunk Love
2001
DRAMA EDITING
A Beautiful Mind [O]
Black Hawk Down
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring{O} [O]
Memento
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Amelie
Gosford Park [O]
Monsters, Inc.
Moulin Rouge [O]
The Royal Tenenbaums
2000
DRAMA EDITING
Billy Elliot
Cast Away
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [O]
Gladiator [O]
Traffic [O]
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Almost Famous
Best in Show
Chocolat [O]
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Shanghai Noon
1990s
1999
DRAMA EDITING
American Beauty [O]
The Insider [O]
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense [O]
The Talented Mr. Ripley
COMEDY/MUSICAL EDITING
Analyze This
Being John Malkovich
Election
Run Lola Run
Man on the Moon
1998
EDITING
The Horse Whisperer
Out of Sight
Saving Private Ryan [O]
Shakespeare in Love [O]
The Thin Red Line [O]
1997
EDITING
Air Force One
As Good As It Gets [O]
Good Will Hunting [O]
L.A. Confidential [O]
Titanic [O]
1996
EDITING
The English Patient [O]
Evita
Fargo [O]
The Rock
Shine [O]
1995
EDITING
Apollo 13 [O]
Braveheart [O]
Casino
Crimson Tide
The Usual Suspects
1994
EDITING
Forrest Gump [O]
Pulp Fiction [O]
The Shawshank Redemption [O]
Speed
True Lies
1993
EDITING
The Fugitive [O]
In the Line of Fire
In the Name of the Father [O]
The Piano [O]
Schindler’s List [O]
1992
EDITING
A Few Good Men [O]
The Last of the Mohicans
The Player
Scene of a Woman [O]
Unforgiven [O]
1991
EDITING
JFK [O]
The Silence of the Lambs [O]
Terminator 2
1990
EDITING
Dances with Wolves [O]
Ghost [O]
Good Fellas [O]
1980s
1989
EDITING
Born on the Fourth of July [O]
Field of Dreams [O]
Glory
1988
EDITING
Mississippi Burning [O]
Rain Man [O]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1987
EDITING
Broadcast News [O]
Fatal Attraction [O]
The Last Emperor [O]
1986
EDITING
Hoosiers
The Mission [O]
Platoon [O]
1985
EDITING
Out of Africa [O]
Runaway Train
Witness [O]
1984
EDITING
Amadeus [O]
The Killing Fields [O]
Romancing the Stone
1983
EDITING
Flashdance
The Right Stuff [O]
WarGames
1982
EDITING
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial [O]
Gandhi [O]
Tootsie [O]
1981
EDITING
On Golden Pond [O]
Raiders of the Lost Ark [O]
Reds [O]
1980
EDITING
Coal Miner’s Daughter [O]
Fame
Raging Bull [O]
1970s
1979
EDITING
All That Jazz [O]
Apocalypse Now [O]
The Black Stallion
1978
EDITING
The Deer Hunter [O]
Hooper
Superman
1977
EDITING
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars [O]
The Turning Point [O]
1976
EDITING
All the President’s Men [O]
Network [O]
Rocky [O]
1975
EDITING
The Hindenburg
Jaws [O]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [O]
1974
EDITING
Earthquake
The Longest Yard
The Towering Inferno [O]
1973
EDITING
The Day of the Jackal
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Sting [O]
1972
EDITING
Cabaret [O]
The Godfather [O]
The Poseidon Adventure
1971
EDITING
The African Elephant
Fiddler on the Roof [O]
The French Connection [O]
Kotch
Summer of ’42
Willard
1970
EDITING
Airport [O]
The Great White Hope
M*A*S*H [O]
Patton [O]
Tora! Tora! Tora
1960s
1969
EDITING
Anne of the Thousand Days [O]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [O]
Hello, Dolly! [O]
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1968
EDITING
The Boston Strangler
Bullitt
Funny Girl [O]
The Odd Couple
Oliver! [O]
1967
EDITING
Beach Red
Bonnie and Clyde [O]
The Dirty Dozen
Doctor Dolittle [O]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [O]
In the Heat of the Night [O]
1966
EDITING
Fantastic Voyage
Grand Prix
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles [O]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [O]
1965
EDITING
Dear Brigitte
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Sound of Music [O]
A Thousand Clowns [O]
Tokyo Olympiad
1964
EDITING
Becket [O]
Mary Poppins [O]
My Fair Lady [O]
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
What a Way to Go!
1963
EDITING
Cleopatra [O]
How the West Was Won [O]
Hud
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Tom Jones [O]
1962
EDITING
Lawrence of Arabia [O]
The Longest Day [O]
Mutiny on the Bounty [O]
To Kill a Mockingbird [O]
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1961
EDITING
Fanny [O]
The Hustler [O]
Judgment at Nuremberg [O]
The Parent Trap
Pocketful of Miracles
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