Thelma Schoonmaker
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).
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- 2024 · Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell as
- 2020 · The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman as Self
- 2019 · At the Video Store as Self
- 2017 · Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- 2015 · Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
- 2014 · Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self
- 2012 · Bad 25 as Self
- 2012 · Optimism and Sheer Will as Self
- 2010 · Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' as Self
- 2010 · Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee
- 2007 · The Key to Reserva as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · Edge of Outside as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Outside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: Inside the Ring as Self
- 2005 · Raging Bull: After the Fight as Self
- 2005 · The Eye of the Beholder as Self
- 2004 · Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’ as Self
- 2004 · Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours as Self - Editor
- 2004 · Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' as Self
- 2004 · Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing as Self
- 2001 · The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self
- 2001 · Painting with Light as Self
- 1998 · Glorious Technicolor as Self
- 1993 · Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
- 1990 · The Scorsese Machine as Self