Thelma Schoonmaker
Known for: Editing
Born: January 3, 1940
Place of birth: Algiers, French Algeria [now Algeria]
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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Filmography
70 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
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Dog with a Movie Camera
2026
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Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration
2026
8.1
Mr. Scorsese
2025
5.0
Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
2024
7.7
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024
6.0
"Echoes of the Soil": The Unsung Stars of Gone to Earth
2023
7.4
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
7.2
The Right Stuff
20207.0
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
2020
7.6
The Irishman
2019
10.0
At the Video Store
2019
5.2
The Snowman
2017
6.0
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017
7.1
Silence
2016
7.5
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015
5.4
Bombay Velvet
2015
8.3
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015
6.2
Learning to Drive
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
8.0
Rockshow
2013
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Optimism and Sheer Will
2012
7.3
Bad 25
2012
7.2
Hugo
2011
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Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
2010
6.6
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
8.2
Shutter Island
2010
8.2
The Departed
2006
5.8
Edge of Outside
2006
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Michael Powell
2005
9.0
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005
8.0
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005
8.0
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005
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The Eye of the Beholder
2005
7.2
The Aviator
2004
7.2
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004
6.0
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
20047.3
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004
7.3
Gangs of New York
2002
6.0
The Neighborhood
2001
5.1
The Concert for New York City
2001
7.4
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
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Painting with Light
2001
6.6
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
7.6
My Voyage to Italy
1999
6.9
Glorious Technicolor
1998
6.8
Kundun
1997
6.0
Grace of My Heart
1996
8.0
Casino
1995
8.4
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995
7.0
The Age of Innocence
1993
7.0
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
7.3
Cape Fear
1991
8.5
GoodFellas
1990
8.0
The Scorsese Machine
1990
6.1
Made in Milan
1990
6.2
New York Stories
1989
7.2
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
6.8
Movies Are My Life
1988
6.9
The Color of Money
1986
7.5
After Hours
1985
7.8
The King of Comedy
1982
7.9
Raging Bull
1980
9.0
Paul McCartney & Wings: Wings Over the World
1979
5.5
Street Scenes 1970
1970
7.6
Woodstock
1970
7.0
The Virgin President
1968
6.0
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968
8.0
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967
10.0
Invisible Women
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Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project
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Midnight Vendetta
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What Happens at Night
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