Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing
1940-01-03 · 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).
Filmography
Dog with a Movie Camera
2026 · Movie
Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration
2026 · Movie
Mr. Scorsese
2025 · Series
Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
2024 · Movie
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
2024 · Movie
"Echoes of the Soil": The Unsung Stars of Gone to Earth
2023 · Movie
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Movie
The Right Stuff
2020 · Series
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
2020 · Movie
The Irishman
2019 · Movie
At the Video Store
2019 · Movie
The Snowman
2017 · Movie
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017 · Movie
Silence
2016 · Movie
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · Movie
Bombay Velvet
2015 · Movie
Scorsese's GoodFellas
2015 · Movie
Learning to Drive
2014 · Movie
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014 · Movie
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Movie
Rockshow
2013 · Movie
Optimism and Sheer Will
2012 · Movie
Bad 25
2012 · Movie
Hugo
2011 · Movie
Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
2010 · Movie
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · Movie
Shutter Island
2010 · Movie
The Departed
2006 · Movie
Edge of Outside
2006 · Movie
Michael Powell
2005 · Movie
Raging Bull: After the Fight
2005 · Movie
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
2005 · Movie
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
2005 · Movie
The Eye of the Beholder
2005 · Movie
The Aviator
2004 · Movie
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
2004 · Movie
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
2004 · Movie
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
2004 · Movie
Gangs of New York
2002 · Movie
The Concert for New York City
2001 · Movie
The Neighborhood
2001 · Movie
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001 · Movie
Painting with Light
2001 · Movie
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 · Movie
My Voyage to Italy
1999 · Movie
Glorious Technicolor
1998 · Movie
Kundun
1997 · Movie
Grace of My Heart
1996 · Movie
Casino
1995 · Movie
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995 · Series
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Movie
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993 · Movie
Cape Fear
1991 · Movie
GoodFellas
1990 · Movie
The Scorsese Machine
1990 · Movie
Made in Milan
1990 · Movie
New York Stories
1989 · Movie
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Movie
Movies Are My Life
1988 · Movie
The Color of Money
1986 · Movie
After Hours
1985 · Movie
The King of Comedy
1982 · Movie
Raging Bull
1980 · Movie
Paul McCartney & Wings: Wings Over the World
1979 · Movie
Street Scenes 1970
1970 · Movie
Woodstock
1970 · Movie
The Virgin President
1968 · Movie
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1968 · Movie
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967 · Movie
What Happens at Night
Movie
Midnight Vendetta
Movie
Invisible Women
Movie
Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project
Movie