In the June 2012 issue of CineMontage, members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild ranked the 75 best-edited films of all time. The top 25 appear below, but a statistical summary the entire list may prove instructive for students and teachers of film:
- Most of the films cited are from the 1970s. None are from the 1930s (which makes sense, given the difficulties of editing which accompanied the changeover to sound).
- Five Hitchcock films appear as well as four each directed by Spielberg and Coppola.
- George Tomasini, Dede Allen, Michael Kahn, and Thelma Schoonmaker, are the list's most frequently-named editors.
- Guild choices also commend work of audio editors, with Walter Murch (6) and Howard Beals (5) cited most often.
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1999 - Zach Staenberg |
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1998 - Michael Kahn |
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1969 - Lou Lombardo |
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1974 - Richards Marks, Barry Malkin, Peter Zinner |
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1981 - Michael Kahn, George Lucas |
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1975 - Dede Allen |
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1968 - Ray Lovejoy |
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1994 - Sally Menke |
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2002 - Daniel Rezende |
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1977 - Richard Chew, Marcia Lucas, George Lucas, Paul Hirsch, T.M. Christopher |
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1990 - James Y. Kwel, Thelma Schoonmaker |
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2000 - Dody Dorn |
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1925 - Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov |
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1960 - George Tomasini |
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1974 - Richard Chew |
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1971 - Gerald B. Greenberg |
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1991 - Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia |
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1975 - Verna Fields |
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1962 - Anne V. Coates |
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1972 - William H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner |
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1967 - Dede Allen |
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1979 - Alan Heim |
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1979 - Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman |
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1941 - Robert Wise |
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1980 - Thelma Schoonmaker |
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