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