The Academy Award for Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was first given for films released in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing. The New York Times published an article by Mark Harris in 2008 discussing the award.[1] Nominations for this particular "Oscar" award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. Since 1981, every film selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. Harris notes that this correlation may surprise the many moviegoers who are unaware of the role of editing (the "invisible art") in moviemaking. Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not generally eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the members of the Editing Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; there were 233 members of the Editing Branch in 2008.[1]. The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.[2] The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the Academy. This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.[3] A publicly accessible database of Academy Award nominations and awards is maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been used to generate the following listing.[4] A listing of the editors with the largest numbers of awards and of nominations is presented in the "Superlatives" section at the end of this article. With the rise of digital non-linear editing systems, the award name was changed to Best Editing in 1999: [edit] Superlatives The following table lists the editors with the largest numbers of Academy Awards and with the largest numbers of nominations.[5] [edit] References - ^ a b Harris, Mark (2008). "Which Editing is a Cut Above?", New York Times, January 6, 2008.
- ^ "Rule Thirteen - Special Rules for the Film Editing Award", from 79th Academy Awards Rules for Distinguished Achievements in 2006. Online version retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ "Orange British Academy Film Awards: Rules and Guidelines 2008-2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. http://static.bafta.org/files/rule-book-bafta-film-awards-0809-23.pdf. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
- ^ "Academy Awards and the Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved January 14, 2009. No webpage explicitly listing the nominees and awardees by category, etc., is maintained by the Academy. The Academy's search engine will generate a list of all nominations and winners for a specific award category (such as "editing") by entering the necessary range of dates.
- ^ "Film Editing Facts". Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. March, 2008. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/filmeditingfacts.html.
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