Thelma Schoonmaker

Known for EditingBorn 1940-01-03 (age 86)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).Read more

Movies & web series

At the Video Store

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

Paul McCartney & Wings: Wings Over the World

Scorsese's GoodFellas

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

GoodFellas

Mr. Scorsese

Shutter Island

The Departed

The Wolf of Wall Street

Rockshow

Raging Bull: After the Fight

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Casino

The Scorsese Machine

The Irishman

Raging Bull

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Killers of the Flower Moon

The King of Comedy

My Voyage to Italy

Bad 25

The Right Stuff

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing

After Hours

Gangs of New York

Hugo

Silence

The Aviator

Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman

Woodstock

Cape Fear

The Last Temptation of Christ

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

The Age of Innocence

Glorious Technicolor

Kundun

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

The Color of Money

The Virgin President

Movies Are My Life

Bringing Out the Dead

Learning to Drive

"Echoes of the Soil": The Unsung Stars of Gone to Earth