| Year | Editor | Film | |
|---|
| 2009 | Chris Dickens | Slumdog Millionaire | |
| 2008 | Christopher Rouse | The Bourne Ultimatum | |
| 2007 | Thelma Schoonmaker | The Departed | |
| 2006 | Hughes Winborne | Crash | |
| 2005 | Thelma Schoonmaker | The Aviator | |
| 2004 | Jamie Selkirk | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |
| 2003 | Martin Walsh | Chicago | |
| 2002 | Pietro Scalia | Black Hawk Down | |
| 2001 | Stephen Mirrione | Traffic | |
| 2000 | Zach Staenberg | The Matrix | |
| 1999 | Michael Kahn | Saving Private Ryan | |
| 1998 | Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris | Titanic | |
| 1997 | Walter Murch | The English Patient | |
| 1996 | Mike Hill, Dan Hanley | Apollo 13 | |
| 1995 | Arthur Schmidt | Forrest Gump | |
| 1994 | Michael Kahn | Schindler's List | |
| 1993 | Joel Cox | Unforgiven | |
| 1992 | Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia | JFK | |
| 1991 | Neil Travis | Dances With Wolves | |
| 1990 | David Brenner, Joe Hutshing | Born on the Fourth of July | |
| 1989 | Arthur Schmidt | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
| 1988 | Gabriella Cristiani | The Last Emperor | |
| 1987 | Claire Simpson | Platoon | |
| 1986 | Thom Noble | Witness | |
| 1985 | Jim Clark | The Killing Fields | |
| 1984 | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf | The Right Stuff | |
| 1983 | John Bloom | Gandhi | |
| 1982 | Michael Kahn | Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
| 1981 | Thelma Schoonmaker | Raging Bull | |
| 1980 | Alan Heim | All That Jazz | |
| 1979 | Peter Zinner | The Deer Hunter | |
| 1978 | Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew | Star Wars | |
| 1977 | Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad | Rocky | |
| 1976 | Verna Fields | Jaws | |
| 1975 | Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress | The Towering Inferno | |
| 1974 | William Reynolds | The Sting | |
| 1973 | David Bretherton | Cabaret | |
| 1972 | Jerry Greenberg | The French Connection | |
| 1971 | Hugh S. Fowler | Patton | |
| 1970 | Françoise Bonnot | Z | |
| 1969 | Frank P. Keller | Bullitt | |
| 1968 | Hal Ashby | In the Heat of the Night | |
| 1967 | Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, Frank Santillo | Grand Prix | |
| 1966 | William Reynolds | The Sound of Music | |
| 1965 | Cotton Warburton | Mary Poppins | |
| 1964 | Harold F. Kress | How the West Was Won | |
| 1963 | Anne Coates | Lawrence of Arabia | |
| 1962 | Thomas Stanford | West Side Story | |
| 1961 | Daniel Mandell | The Apartment | |
| 1960 | Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning | Ben | |
| 1959 | Adrienne Fazan | Gigi | |
| 1958 | Peter Taylor | The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
| 1957 | Gene Ruggiero, Paul Weatherwax | Around the World in 80 Days | |
| 1956 | Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon | Picnic | |
| 1955 | Gene Milford | On the Waterfront | |
| 1954 | William Lyon | From Here to Eternity | |
| 1953 | Elmo Williams, Harry Gerstad | High Noon | |
| 1952 | William Hornbeck | A Place in the Sun | |
| 1951 | Ralph E. Winters, Conrad A. Nervig | King Solomon's Mines | |
| 1950 | Harry W. Gerstad | Champion | |
| 1949 | Paul Weatherwax | The Naked City | |
| 1948 | Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish | Body and Soul | |
| 1947 | Daniel Mandell | The Best Years of Our Lives | |
| 1946 | Robert J. Kern | National Velvet | |
| 1945 | Barbara McLean | Wilson | |
| 1944 | George Amy | Air Force | |
| 1943 | Daniel Mandell | The Pride of the Yankees | |
| 1942 | William Holmes | Sergeant York | |
| 1941 | Anne Bauchens | North West Mounted Police | |
| 1940 | Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom | Gone with the Wind | |
| 1939 | Ralph Dawson | The Adventures of Robin Hood | |
| 1938 | Gene Havlick, Gene Milford | Lost Horizon | |
| 1937 | Ralph Dawson | Anthony Adverse | |
| 1936 | Ralph Dawson | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| 1935 | Conrad A. Nervig | Eskimo | |