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Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award

  • Star Wars (film)15 minStar Wars opened on the 25th of May 1977, in just 32 theaters across the United States. The cast and crew believed it would be a failure. The film went $3 million over budget. George Lucas was so absorbed in work on opening day that he…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King13 minThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King crossed the one-billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office in February 2004, only the second film in history to reach that threshold. At the 76th Academy Awards, it swept every single one…
  • Jaws (film)16 minJaws, the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, begins with a simple and terrifying image: a young woman swimming alone at night, and then something pulling her under. In the morning, only part of her remains washes ashore. That…
  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)13 minBen-Hur, the 1959 epic directed by William Wyler, arrived at a moment when Hollywood was fighting for its life. Television had eaten into ticket sales, and the consent decree of 1948 had forced studios to sell off their theater chains. MGM…
  • Mary Poppins (film)7 minMary Poppins, the 1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, had its premiere on the 27th of August 1964 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. It earned thirteen Academy Award nominations, a record for any…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)14 minGone with the Wind premiered on the 15th of December 1939, and on that single night, roughly 300,000 people packed the streets of Atlanta for seven miles just to watch limousines carry its stars from the airport to the Loew's Grand…
  • Apollo 13 (film)8 minApollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the Moon. Lovell had already orbited the Moon on Apollo 8. He tells…
  • Titanic (1997 film)13 minTitanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. On the 1st of September 1995, Cameron and his crew descended to the actual wreck of the RMS Titanic,…
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once10 minEverything Everywhere All at Once was originally written for a man. The script's first version had a male lead, conceived specifically with Jackie Chan in mind. Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert reconceived the protagonist as a…
  • High Noon11 minHigh Noon opens on a town marshal who has just gotten married and is minutes away from a peaceful retirement when word arrives that a killer named Frank Miller is on the noon train. The year is 1952. The film is American. The director is…
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)10 minA Midsummer Night's Dream, Warner Bros.' 1935 adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, set a record on release that no studio would want. Theaters had contracted to screen the film, then pulled out in unprecedented numbers: 2,971 cancellations,…

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