Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for her collaboration over five decades with director Martin Scorsese. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four ACE Eddie Awards. She has been honored with the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1997, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2014, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019. started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and has edited all of his films since Raging Bull (1980). She has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, winning three—for Raging Bull, The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), both records. She has also been nominated eleven times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, winning for Raging Bull and Goodfellas (1990).
27 movies · 1 shows
Dog with a Movie Camera
2026·0.0
Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration
2026·0.0
Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
2024·0.0
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
2020·7.0
At the Video Store
2019·10.0
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017·6.0
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015·8.3
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014·0.0
Optimism and Sheer Will
2012·0.0
Bad 25
2012·7.3
Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
2010·0.0
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010·6.7
Edge of Outside
2006·5.8
Michael Powell
2005·0.0
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005·9.0
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005·8.0
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005·8.0
The Eye of the Beholder
2005·0.0
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004·7.2
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
2004·6.0
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004·7.3
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001·7.4
Painting with Light
2001·0.0
Glorious Technicolor
1998·6.9
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993·7.0
The Scorsese Machine
1990·8.0
Movies Are My Life
1988·6.8