Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing • Born 1940-01-03
Biography
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
28 credits
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Movie • 2005
Self
Scorsese's GoodFellas
Movie • 2015
Self
Raging Bull: After the Fight
Movie • 2005
Self
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Movie • 2005
Self
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Eye of the Beholder
Movie • 2005
Self
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Movie • 2004
Self - Editor
Edge of Outside
Movie • 2006
Self
At the Video Store
Movie • 2019
Self
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Movie • 2014
Self
Bad 25
Movie • 2012
Self
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Movie • 2004
Self
Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
Movie • 2024
The Scorsese Machine
Movie • 1990
Self
Painting with Light
Movie • 2001
Self
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Movie • 1993
Self
Glorious Technicolor
Movie • 1998
Self
The Key to Reserva
Movie • 2007
Self (uncredited)
Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
Movie • 2010
Self
Optimism and Sheer Will
Movie • 2012
Self
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
Movie • 2004
Self
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
Movie • 2020
Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Movie • 2010
Self – Interviewee
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Movie • 2017
Self
Michael Powell
Movie • 2005
Movies Are My Life
Movie • 1988
Self
Invisible Women
Movie
Herself
Mr. Scorsese
TV • 2025
Self