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).
Scorsese's GoodFellas
(Self)
Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
(Self)
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
(Self)
Raging Bull: After the Fight
(Self)
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
(Self)
The Eye of the Beholder
(Self)
Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
(Self - Editor)
Edge of Outside
(Self)
At the Video Store
(Self)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
(Self)
Bad 25
(Self)
Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
(Self)
Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’
(Self)
Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
The Scorsese Machine
(Self)
Painting with Light
(Self)
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
(Self)
Glorious Technicolor
(Self)
The Key to Reserva
(Self (uncredited))
Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
(Self)
Optimism and Sheer Will
(Self)
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
(Self)
The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
(Self)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
(Self – Interviewee)
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
(Self)
Michael Powell
The King of Comedy
(Editor)
Casino
(Editor)
The Departed
(Editor)
Raging Bull
(Editor)
Cape Fear
(Editor)
GoodFellas
(Editor)
The Age of Innocence
(Editor)
After Hours
(Editor)
Gangs of New York
(Editor)
The Last Temptation of Christ
(Editor)
The Color of Money
(Editor)
Bringing Out the Dead
(Editor)
Hugo
(Editor)
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Editor)
Who's That Knocking at My Door
(Editor)
The Aviator
(Editor)
Made in Milan
(Editor)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
(Editor)
Silence
(Editor)
"Echoes of the Soil": The Unsung Stars of Gone to Earth
(Thanks)
Shutter Island
(Editor)
Kundun
(Editor)
Woodstock
(Editor)
Woodstock
(Assistant Director)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
(Executive Producer)
Bombay Velvet
(Editor)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
(Thanks)
My Voyage to Italy
(Editor)
The Irishman
(Editor)
Grace of My Heart
(Editor)
Wings Over the World
(Editor)
Rockshow
(Editor)
The Snowman
(Editor)
New York Stories
(Editor)
Learning to Drive
(Editor)
The Neighborhood
(Editorial Consultant)
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
(Editor)
Street Scenes
(Editor)
The Key to Reserva
(Editor)
The King of Comedy
(Production Supervisor)
Killers of the Flower Moon
(Editor)
The Virgin President
(Editor)
The Right Stuff
(Consulting Producer)
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
(Supervising Editor)