2024 Oscars Best Film Editing nominees: 1 past champ, 2 veterans and 2 rookies

The films in the running for the 2024 Best Film Editing Oscar are “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Poor Things.” Our current odds indicate that “Oppenheimer” (31/10) is the frontrunner, followed in order by “Anatomy of a Fall” (4/1), “Killers of the Flower Moon” (9/2), “Poor Things” (9/2), and “The Holdovers” (9/2).

Having previously bagged trophies for “Raging Bull” (1981), “The Aviator” (2005), and “The Departed” (2007), Thelma Schoonmaker could now become this category’s first quadruple champion by winning for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The 84-year-old is also the first cutter to reach a total of nine nominations, with all but her first for “Woodstock” (1971) having come for films directed by Martin Scorsese. Their other collaborations that brought her academy attention are “Goodfellas” (1991), “Gangs of New York” (2003), “Hugo” (2012), and “The Irishman” (2020).

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This year’s second of two female nominees is Jennifer Lame (“Oppenheimer”), who would be the 14th unique woman to win this award, directly following 2016 champ Margaret Sixel (“Mad Max: Fury Road”). She is one of two Oscars newcomers in this group along with Laurent Sénéchal (“Anatomy of a Fall”), who is the category’s first French nominee since Frédéric Thoraval (“Promising Young Woman,” 2021).

The remaining two veteran contenders in this lineup are Yorgos Mavropsaridis (“Poor Things”) and Kevin Tent (“The Holdovers”), who respectively already earned recognition for “The Favourite” (2019) and “The Descendants” (2012). At this point, each has exclusively been nominated for working with a single director, namely, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alexander Payne. Tent happens to be involved in a rematch with Schoonmaker, who lost alongside him a dozen years ago to “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” duo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall.

Although last year proved to be a rare exception, it is extremely common for a Best Film Editing winner to also be honored for its sound. Indeed, until “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Top Gun: Maverick” split the prizes, the tradition was maintained for nine consecutive years, with “Dune” being the last dual victor. In this case, the only film capable of starting the trend up again is “Oppenheimer.”

Considering the last decade alone, the 2024 film editing lineup is the seventh to solely consist of Best Picture nominees and the third to include four movies contending for Best Director. The latter stipulation applied in both 2016 and 2017, when filmmakers J. J. Abrams (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) and David Mackenzie (“Hell or High Water”) were the odd ones out, whereas this time it’s Payne.

The films that won in this category most recently are “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2023), “Dune” (2022), “Sound of Metal” (2021), and “Ford v Ferrari” (2020). This year’s winner will be revealed during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, airing March 10 on ABC.

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