Thelma Schoonmaker
American film editor · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1940 · age 86
Thelma Schoonmaker is an American film editor, best known for her collaboration over five decades with director Martin Scorsese. She has received numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four ACE Eddie Awards.
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Dog with a Movie CameraFilm2025
Mr. ScorseseSeries2024“When you're a film-maker you become addicted, your family suffers, your friends suffer, to say nothing of what's going on on the set.”In their words21 January 2024The Sunday Times
Made in England: The Films of Powell and PressburgerFilm, 2024Producer2020The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The IrishmanFilm2017
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into SilenceFilm2015
Scorsese's GoodFellasFilm2014Inside Rupert PupkinFilm2012
Bad 25Film2007Academy Award for Best Film EditingAward2006
Edge of OutsideFilm2005Academy Award for Best Film EditingAward
Michael PowellFilm, 20052004Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture EditingFilm2001
Painting with LightFilm1993
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'Film1990
The Scorsese MachineFilm1988
Movies Are My LifeFilm1981Academy Award for Best Film EditingAward1940Born3 January 1940People around Thelma
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, You get to contribute so significantly in the editing room because you shape the movie and the performances," she says.
Ah, but they aren't violent until I've edited them.
I think Marty's use of violence is very valid.
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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.
