Name
Thelma Schoonmaker
Known For
Editing
Birthday
1940-01-03 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Algiers, French Algeria [now Algeria]
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).
Known For
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A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving cor...
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When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are mur...
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The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by n...
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To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate...
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World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a...
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Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driv...
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A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1...
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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the r...
- 2005 Raging Bull: Inside the Ring as Self
- 2015 Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
- 2005 Raging Bull: After the Fight as Self
- 2005 Raging Bull: Outside the Ring as Self
- 2001 The Making of 'Cape Fear' as Self
- 2005 The Eye of the Beholder as Self
- 2004 Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours as Self - Editor
- 2006 Edge of Outside as Self
- 2019 At the Video Store as Self
- 2014 Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self
- 2012 Bad 25 as Self
- 2004 Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' as Self
- 2024 Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
- 1990 The Scorsese Machine as Self
- 2001 Painting with Light as Self
- 1993 Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
- 1998 Glorious Technicolor as Self
- 2010 Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' as Self
- 2012 Optimism and Sheer Will as Self
- 2004 Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing as Self
- 2020 The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman as Self
- 2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self – Interviewee
- 2017 Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- 2005 Michael Powell
- 1988 Movies Are My Life as Self
- Soon Invisible Women as Herself
- 2026 Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration as Self
- 2026 Dog with a Movie Camera
- 2025 Mr. Scorsese ( 5 episodes ) as Self
