200 Greatest Film Editors
Criteria: These film editors were ranked according to their influence on cutting of films, the acclaim they received for their film editing, and, to a lesser degree, the greatness (influence, acclaim, popularity) of the films they cut.
Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America.
Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America.
Greatest Film Editors
1. Sergei Eisenstein
(Battleship Potemkin)
2. George Tomasini
(Psycho)
3. Thelma Schoonmaker
(Raging Bull)
4. Michael Kahn
(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5. Akira Kurosawa
(Seven Samurai)
6. Dede Allen
(Bonnie and Clyde)
7. Barbara McLean
(All About Eve)
8. Anne V. Coates
(Lawrence of Arabia)
9. Dorothy Spencer
(Stagecoach)
10. Daniel Mandell
(The Apartment)
11. Ralph Dawson
(The Adventures of Robin Hood)
12. William H. Reynolds
(The Godfather)
13. Walter Murch
(The English Patient)
14. Margaret Booth
(Mutiny on the Bounty)
15. D. W. Griffith
(The Birth of a Nation)
16. Paul Hirsch
(Star Wars)
17. Jack Murray
(The Searchers)
18. Ralph E. Winters
(The Pink Panther)
19. Verna Fields
(Jaws)
20. Blanche Sewell
(The Wizard of Oz)
21. William Hornbeck
(It's a Wonderful Life)
22. Gene Milford
(On the Waterfront)
23. Leo Catozzo
(8½)
24. Elmo Williams
(High Noon)
25. Nino Baragli
(The Gospel According to Saint Matthew)
26. Richard Chew
(Star Wars)
27. Gerald B. Greenberg
(The French Connection)
28. Eraldo Da Roma
(Bicycle Thieves)
29. James & Rose Smith
(Intolerance)
30. Harold F. Kress
(How the West Was Won)
31. William A. Lyon
(From Here to Eternity)
32. Otho Lovering
(Stagecoach)
33. William H. Ziegler
(Strangers on a Train)
34. Sam O'Steen
(The Graduate)
35. Peter Zinner
(The Godfather)
36. Warren Low
(Now, Voyager)
37. Ruggero Mastroianni
(Amarcord)
38. Al Clark
(The Awful Truth)
39. Richard Marks
(Terms of Endearment)
40. Anne Bauchens
(The Ten Commandments)
41. Fredric Steinkamp
(They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
42. Adrienne Fazan
(Singin' in the Rain)
43. Sally Menke
(Pulp Fiction)
44. Ray Lovejoy
(2001: A Space Odyssey)
45. Marguerite Beaugé
(Napoléon)
46. Joe Hutshing
(JFK)
47. Pietro Scalia
(Gladiator)
48. Edwin S. Porter
(The Great Train Robbery)
49. James Williamson
(The Big Swallow)
50. George Albert Smith
(As Seen Through a Telescope)
51. Alan Heim
(All That Jazz)
52. Rudy Fehr
(Prizzi's Honor)
53. Claudine Bouché
(Jules and Jim)
54. Marguerite Renoir
(The Rules of the Game)
55. Dulal Dutta
(Pather Panchali)
56. Yoshiyasu Hamamura
(Tokyo Story)
57. Mario Serandrei
(The Leopard)
58. Oscar Rosander
(Wild Strawberies)
59. René Le Hénaff
(Port of Shadows)
60. Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
(The Social Network)
61. Gene Ruggiero
(Ninotchka)
62. Gene Havlick
(It Happened One Night)
63. Robert Wise
(Citizen Kane)
64. Charles Chaplin
(City Lights)
65. Marcia Lucas
(Star Wars)
66. Dziga Vertov & Yelizaveta Svilova
(Man with a Movie Camera)
67. Alexander Dovzhenko
(Earth)
68. Arthur Schmidt
(Back to the Future)
69. Gerry Hambling
(Midnight Express)
70. William Goldenberg
(Argo)
71. Carol Littleton
(E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
72. Margaret Sixel
(Mad Max: Fury Road)
73. Esfir Shub
(The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty)
74. Frederic Knudtson
(Judgment at Nuremberg)
75. Michael Luciano
(Kiss Me Deadly)
76. Conrad A. Nervig
(King Solomon's Mines)
77. Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill
(Apollo 13)
78. Richard A. Harris
(Titanic)
79. Tom Rolf
(Taxi Driver)
80. Frank P. Keller
(Bullitt)
81. James E. Newcom & Hal C. Kern
(Gone with the Wind)
82. Lee Smith
(The Dark Knight)
83. Joel Cox
(Unforgiven)
84. John Bloom
(Gandhi)
85. George Amy
(Yankee Doodle Dandy)
86. Lisa Fruchtman
(The Right Stuff)
87. Paul Weatherwax
(The Naked City)
88. John Dunning
(Battleground)
89. Harry W. Gerstad
(High Noon)
90. Conrad Buff
(Titanic)
91. James Cameron
(Titanic)
92. Owen Marks
(Casablanca)
93. Arthur P. Schmidt
(Some Like It Hot)
94. Bud S. Smith
(The Exorcist)
95. Robert Swink
(Roman Holiday)
96. Viola Lawrence
(The Lady from Shanghai)
97. Terry Rawlings
(Blade Runner)
98. Barry Malkin
(The Godfather Part II)
99. Stephen Mirrione
(Traffic)
100. Joe Walker
(Arrival)
101. Charles Nelson
(Picnic)
102. Robert C. Jones
(Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
103. Jim Clark
(Marathon Man)
104. Christopher Rouse
(The Bourne Ultimatum)
105. John Gilbert
(The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
106. Chris Dickens
(Slumdog Millionaire)
107. Daniel Rezende
(City of God)
108. Robert Simpson
(The Grapes of Wrath)
109. Claire Simpson
(Platoon)
110. Susan E. Morse
(Manhattan)
111. William Chang
(In the Mood for Love)
112. Ralph Rosenblum
(Annie Hall)
113. Lyudmila Feyginova
(Stalker)
114. Françoise Bonnot
(Z)
115. Agnès Guillemot
(Contempt)
116. Lev Kuleshov
(Kuleshov Effect)
117. Louis Lombardo
(The Wild Bunch)
118. Donn Cambern
(Easy Rider)
119. Richard Francis-Bruce
(The Shawshank Redemption)
120. Doane Harrison
(The Lost Weekend)
121. Ralph Kemplen
(The Day of the Jackal)
122. Antony Gibbs
(Walkabout)
123. Anthony Harvey
(Dr. Strangelove)
124. Frank J. Urioste
(Die Hard)
125. Ferris Webster
(The Manchurian Candidate)
126. Robert L. Wolfe
(All the President's Men)
127. Pembroke J. Herring
(Groundhog Day)
128. Hank Corwin
(The Tree of Life)
129. Craig McKay
(The Silence of the Lambs)
130. Joel & Ethan Coen
(Fargo)
131. Franco Arcalli
(The Conformist)
132. Dylan Tichenor
(There Will Be Blood)
133. Gabriella Cristiani
(The Last Emperor)
134. Philip W. Anderson
(Giant)
135. Stuart Gilmore
(Airport)
136. Oswald Hafenrichter
(The Third Man)
137. Mark Goldblatt
(The Terminator)
138. Peter R. Hunt
(Goldfinger)
139. Richard Halsey
(Rocky)
140. Jay Cassidy
(Into the Wild)
141. Eda Warren
(The General Died at Dawn)
142. Cotton Warburton
(Mary Poppins)
143. Thom Noble
(Thelma & Louise)
144. Robert J. Kern
(National Velvet)
145. Robert Parrish
(Body and Soul)
146. Steven Rosenblum
(Glory)
147. William Steinkamp
(The Fabulous Baker Boys)
148. Hal Ashby
(In the Heat of the Night)
149. Stuart Baird
(Superman)
150. Danford B. Greene
(M*A*S*H)
151. Tim Squyres
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
152. José Salcedo
(Talk to Her)
153. Louis R. Loeffler
(Anatomy of a Murder)
154. Abbas Kiarostami
(Close-Up)
155. Jacques Witta
(Three Colors: Red)
156. Tariq Anwar
(American Beauty)
157. Bob Murawski
(The Hurt Locker)
158. David Bretherton
(Cabaret)
159. Sheldon Kahn
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
160. Zach Staenberg
(The Matrix)
161. Sandra Adair
(Boyhood)
162. Bill Butler
(A Clockwork Orange)
163. Lynzee Klingman
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
164. Hugh S. Fowler
(Patton)
165. Billy Weber
(Days of Heaven)
166. Hervé de Luze
(The Pianist)
167. Edith Schlüssel
(Ordet)
168. Suzanne Baron
(Monsieur Hulot's Holiday)
169. Léonide Azar
(Elevator to the Gallows)
170. Carlos Savage
(Los Olvidados)
171. Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
(Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
172. Juliane Lorenz
(The Marriage of Maria Braun)
173. Hannes Nikel
(Das Boot)
174. Peter Przygodda
(Wings of Desire)
175. Yorgos Mavropsaridis
(The Favorite)
176. David Brenner
(Independence Day)
177. Frank Morriss
(Duel)
178. Chris Lebenzon
(Top Gun)
179. Jon Gregory
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
180. Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
(The Banshees of Inisherin)
181. James Haygood
(Fight Club)
182. Dody Dorn
(Memento)
183. Kevin Tent
(Sideways)
184. Paul Rubell
(The Insider)
185. Jay Rabinowitz
(Requiem for a Dream)
186. Jill Bilcock
(Moulin Rouge!)
187. Andrew Weisblum
(Black Swan)
188. Frank Clarke
(Blowup)
189. Alfonso Cuarón
(Gravity)
190. David Blewitt
(Ghostbusters)
191. Yang Jin-mo
(Parasite)
192. Jennifer Lame
(Oppenheimer)
193. Tom Cross
(La La Land)
194. Michael McCusker
(Walk the Line)
195. Samuel E. Beetley
(The Longest Day)
196. John Wright
(Speed)
197. Saar Klein
(The Bourne Identity)
198. Scott Conrad
(Rocky)
199. Esfir Tobak
(October: Ten Days That Shook the World)
200. Walter A. Thompson
(The Nun's Story)
(Battleship Potemkin)
2. George Tomasini
(Psycho)
3. Thelma Schoonmaker
(Raging Bull)
4. Michael Kahn
(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5. Akira Kurosawa
(Seven Samurai)
6. Dede Allen
(Bonnie and Clyde)
7. Barbara McLean
(All About Eve)
8. Anne V. Coates
(Lawrence of Arabia)
9. Dorothy Spencer
(Stagecoach)
10. Daniel Mandell
(The Apartment)
11. Ralph Dawson
(The Adventures of Robin Hood)
12. William H. Reynolds
(The Godfather)
13. Walter Murch
(The English Patient)
14. Margaret Booth
(Mutiny on the Bounty)
15. D. W. Griffith
(The Birth of a Nation)
16. Paul Hirsch
(Star Wars)
17. Jack Murray
(The Searchers)
18. Ralph E. Winters
(The Pink Panther)
19. Verna Fields
(Jaws)
20. Blanche Sewell
(The Wizard of Oz)
21. William Hornbeck
(It's a Wonderful Life)
22. Gene Milford
(On the Waterfront)
23. Leo Catozzo
(8½)
24. Elmo Williams
(High Noon)
25. Nino Baragli
(The Gospel According to Saint Matthew)
26. Richard Chew
(Star Wars)
27. Gerald B. Greenberg
(The French Connection)
28. Eraldo Da Roma
(Bicycle Thieves)
29. James & Rose Smith
(Intolerance)
30. Harold F. Kress
(How the West Was Won)
31. William A. Lyon
(From Here to Eternity)
32. Otho Lovering
(Stagecoach)
33. William H. Ziegler
(Strangers on a Train)
34. Sam O'Steen
(The Graduate)
35. Peter Zinner
(The Godfather)
36. Warren Low
(Now, Voyager)
37. Ruggero Mastroianni
(Amarcord)
38. Al Clark
(The Awful Truth)
39. Richard Marks
(Terms of Endearment)
40. Anne Bauchens
(The Ten Commandments)
41. Fredric Steinkamp
(They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)
42. Adrienne Fazan
(Singin' in the Rain)
43. Sally Menke
(Pulp Fiction)
44. Ray Lovejoy
(2001: A Space Odyssey)
45. Marguerite Beaugé
(Napoléon)
46. Joe Hutshing
(JFK)
47. Pietro Scalia
(Gladiator)
48. Edwin S. Porter
(The Great Train Robbery)
49. James Williamson
(The Big Swallow)
50. George Albert Smith
(As Seen Through a Telescope)
51. Alan Heim
(All That Jazz)
52. Rudy Fehr
(Prizzi's Honor)
53. Claudine Bouché
(Jules and Jim)
54. Marguerite Renoir
(The Rules of the Game)
55. Dulal Dutta
(Pather Panchali)
56. Yoshiyasu Hamamura
(Tokyo Story)
57. Mario Serandrei
(The Leopard)
58. Oscar Rosander
(Wild Strawberies)
59. René Le Hénaff
(Port of Shadows)
60. Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
(The Social Network)
61. Gene Ruggiero
(Ninotchka)
62. Gene Havlick
(It Happened One Night)
63. Robert Wise
(Citizen Kane)
64. Charles Chaplin
(City Lights)
65. Marcia Lucas
(Star Wars)
66. Dziga Vertov & Yelizaveta Svilova
(Man with a Movie Camera)
67. Alexander Dovzhenko
(Earth)
68. Arthur Schmidt
(Back to the Future)
69. Gerry Hambling
(Midnight Express)
70. William Goldenberg
(Argo)
71. Carol Littleton
(E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
72. Margaret Sixel
(Mad Max: Fury Road)
73. Esfir Shub
(The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty)
74. Frederic Knudtson
(Judgment at Nuremberg)
75. Michael Luciano
(Kiss Me Deadly)
76. Conrad A. Nervig
(King Solomon's Mines)
77. Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill
(Apollo 13)
78. Richard A. Harris
(Titanic)
79. Tom Rolf
(Taxi Driver)
80. Frank P. Keller
(Bullitt)
81. James E. Newcom & Hal C. Kern
(Gone with the Wind)
82. Lee Smith
(The Dark Knight)
83. Joel Cox
(Unforgiven)
84. John Bloom
(Gandhi)
85. George Amy
(Yankee Doodle Dandy)
86. Lisa Fruchtman
(The Right Stuff)
87. Paul Weatherwax
(The Naked City)
88. John Dunning
(Battleground)
89. Harry W. Gerstad
(High Noon)
90. Conrad Buff
(Titanic)
91. James Cameron
(Titanic)
92. Owen Marks
(Casablanca)
93. Arthur P. Schmidt
(Some Like It Hot)
94. Bud S. Smith
(The Exorcist)
95. Robert Swink
(Roman Holiday)
96. Viola Lawrence
(The Lady from Shanghai)
97. Terry Rawlings
(Blade Runner)
98. Barry Malkin
(The Godfather Part II)
99. Stephen Mirrione
(Traffic)
100. Joe Walker
(Arrival)
101. Charles Nelson
(Picnic)
102. Robert C. Jones
(Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
103. Jim Clark
(Marathon Man)
104. Christopher Rouse
(The Bourne Ultimatum)
105. John Gilbert
(The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
106. Chris Dickens
(Slumdog Millionaire)
107. Daniel Rezende
(City of God)
108. Robert Simpson
(The Grapes of Wrath)
109. Claire Simpson
(Platoon)
110. Susan E. Morse
(Manhattan)
111. William Chang
(In the Mood for Love)
112. Ralph Rosenblum
(Annie Hall)
113. Lyudmila Feyginova
(Stalker)
114. Françoise Bonnot
(Z)
115. Agnès Guillemot
(Contempt)
116. Lev Kuleshov
(Kuleshov Effect)
117. Louis Lombardo
(The Wild Bunch)
118. Donn Cambern
(Easy Rider)
119. Richard Francis-Bruce
(The Shawshank Redemption)
120. Doane Harrison
(The Lost Weekend)
121. Ralph Kemplen
(The Day of the Jackal)
122. Antony Gibbs
(Walkabout)
123. Anthony Harvey
(Dr. Strangelove)
124. Frank J. Urioste
(Die Hard)
125. Ferris Webster
(The Manchurian Candidate)
126. Robert L. Wolfe
(All the President's Men)
127. Pembroke J. Herring
(Groundhog Day)
128. Hank Corwin
(The Tree of Life)
129. Craig McKay
(The Silence of the Lambs)
130. Joel & Ethan Coen
(Fargo)
131. Franco Arcalli
(The Conformist)
132. Dylan Tichenor
(There Will Be Blood)
133. Gabriella Cristiani
(The Last Emperor)
134. Philip W. Anderson
(Giant)
135. Stuart Gilmore
(Airport)
136. Oswald Hafenrichter
(The Third Man)
137. Mark Goldblatt
(The Terminator)
138. Peter R. Hunt
(Goldfinger)
139. Richard Halsey
(Rocky)
140. Jay Cassidy
(Into the Wild)
141. Eda Warren
(The General Died at Dawn)
142. Cotton Warburton
(Mary Poppins)
143. Thom Noble
(Thelma & Louise)
144. Robert J. Kern
(National Velvet)
145. Robert Parrish
(Body and Soul)
146. Steven Rosenblum
(Glory)
147. William Steinkamp
(The Fabulous Baker Boys)
148. Hal Ashby
(In the Heat of the Night)
149. Stuart Baird
(Superman)
150. Danford B. Greene
(M*A*S*H)
151. Tim Squyres
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
152. José Salcedo
(Talk to Her)
153. Louis R. Loeffler
(Anatomy of a Murder)
154. Abbas Kiarostami
(Close-Up)
155. Jacques Witta
(Three Colors: Red)
156. Tariq Anwar
(American Beauty)
157. Bob Murawski
(The Hurt Locker)
158. David Bretherton
(Cabaret)
159. Sheldon Kahn
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
160. Zach Staenberg
(The Matrix)
161. Sandra Adair
(Boyhood)
162. Bill Butler
(A Clockwork Orange)
163. Lynzee Klingman
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
164. Hugh S. Fowler
(Patton)
165. Billy Weber
(Days of Heaven)
166. Hervé de Luze
(The Pianist)
167. Edith Schlüssel
(Ordet)
168. Suzanne Baron
(Monsieur Hulot's Holiday)
169. Léonide Azar
(Elevator to the Gallows)
170. Carlos Savage
(Los Olvidados)
171. Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
(Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
172. Juliane Lorenz
(The Marriage of Maria Braun)
173. Hannes Nikel
(Das Boot)
174. Peter Przygodda
(Wings of Desire)
175. Yorgos Mavropsaridis
(The Favorite)
176. David Brenner
(Independence Day)
177. Frank Morriss
(Duel)
178. Chris Lebenzon
(Top Gun)
179. Jon Gregory
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
180. Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
(The Banshees of Inisherin)
181. James Haygood
(Fight Club)
182. Dody Dorn
(Memento)
183. Kevin Tent
(Sideways)
184. Paul Rubell
(The Insider)
185. Jay Rabinowitz
(Requiem for a Dream)
186. Jill Bilcock
(Moulin Rouge!)
187. Andrew Weisblum
(Black Swan)
188. Frank Clarke
(Blowup)
189. Alfonso Cuarón
(Gravity)
190. David Blewitt
(Ghostbusters)
191. Yang Jin-mo
(Parasite)
192. Jennifer Lame
(Oppenheimer)
193. Tom Cross
(La La Land)
194. Michael McCusker
(Walk the Line)
195. Samuel E. Beetley
(The Longest Day)
196. John Wright
(Speed)
197. Saar Klein
(The Bourne Identity)
198. Scott Conrad
(Rocky)
199. Esfir Tobak
(October: Ten Days That Shook the World)
200. Walter A. Thompson
(The Nun's Story)
Honorable Mentions
Alan Baumgarten
(The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Robin Campillo
(The Class)
Douglas Crise
(Babel)
Walter Hannemann
(Smokey and the Bandit)
Monte Hellman
(Two-Lane Blacktop)
Tina Hirsch
(Gremlins)
Kevin Greutert
(Saw)
Pamela Martin
(The Fighter)
Otto Meyer
(The Talk of the Town)
Eve Newman
(Two-Minute Warning)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir
(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Bill Pankow
(The Untouchables)
Geraldine Peroni
(Brokeback Mountain)
Robert Rodríguez
(Sin City)
Ronald Sanders
(The Fly)
Steven Soderbergh
(Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
Crispin Struthers
(Silver Linings Playbook)
Sherman Todd
(For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Neil Travis
(Dances with Wolves)
Dennis Virkler
(The Fugitive)
(The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Robin Campillo
(The Class)
Douglas Crise
(Babel)
Walter Hannemann
(Smokey and the Bandit)
Monte Hellman
(Two-Lane Blacktop)
Tina Hirsch
(Gremlins)
Kevin Greutert
(Saw)
Pamela Martin
(The Fighter)
Otto Meyer
(The Talk of the Town)
Eve Newman
(Two-Minute Warning)
Valdís Óskarsdóttir
(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Bill Pankow
(The Untouchables)
Geraldine Peroni
(Brokeback Mountain)
Robert Rodríguez
(Sin City)
Ronald Sanders
(The Fly)
Steven Soderbergh
(Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
Crispin Struthers
(Silver Linings Playbook)
Sherman Todd
(For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Neil Travis
(Dances with Wolves)
Dennis Virkler
(The Fugitive)
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Edited By: Tim
List Begun: 2024-11-01