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

• 2026Dog with a Movie Camera
• 2024Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger — Executive Producer
• 2024Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
• 2023"Echoes of the Soil": The Unsung Stars of Gone to Earth — Thanks
• 2023Killers of the Flower Moon — Editor
• The Right Stuff — Consulting Producer
• 2019The Irishman — Editor
• 2017The Snowman — Editor
• 2016Silence — Editor
• 2015Bombay Velvet — Editor
• 2015Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — Thanks
• 2014Learning to Drive — Editor
• 2013Rockshow — Editor
• 2013The Wolf of Wall Street — Editor
• 2011Hugo — Editor
• 2010Shutter Island — Editor
• 2006The Departed — Editor
• 2005Michael Powell
• 2004The Aviator — Editor
• 2002Gangs of New York — Editor
• 2001The Concert for New York City — Editorial Consultant
• 2001The Neighborhood — Editorial Consultant
• 1999Bringing Out the Dead — Editor
• 1999My Voyage to Italy — Editor
• 1997Kundun — Editor
• 1996Grace of My Heart — Editor
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies — Supervising Editor
• 1995Casino — Editor
• 1993The Age of Innocence — Editor
• 1991Cape Fear — Editor
• 1990GoodFellas — Editor
• 1990Made in Milan — Editor
• 1989New York Stories — Editor
• 1988The Last Temptation of Christ — Editor
• 1986The Color of Money — Editor
• 1985After Hours — Editor
• 1982The King of Comedy — Editor, Production Supervisor
• 1980Raging Bull — Editor
• 1979Paul McCartney & Wings: Wings Over the World — Editor
• 1970Street Scenes 1970 — Editor
• 1970Woodstock — Assistant Director, Editor
• 1968The Virgin President — Editor
• 1968Who's That Knocking at My Door — Editor
• 1967Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake — Editor
• Midnight Vendetta — Editor
• Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project — Editor
• What Happens at Night — Editor

Appearances as themselves (26)

• 2026Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration — Self
• Mr. Scorsese — Self
• 2020The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman — Self
• 2019At the Video Store — Self
• 2017Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence — Self
• 2015Scorsese's GoodFellas — Self
• 2014Inside Rupert Pupkin — Self
• 2012Bad 25 — Self
• 2012Optimism and Sheer Will — Self
• 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self – Interviewee
• 2010Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes' — Self
• 2006Edge of Outside — Self
• 2005Raging Bull: After the Fight — Self
• 2005Raging Bull: Inside the Ring — Self
• 2005Raging Bull: Outside the Ring — Self
• 2005The Eye of the Beholder — Self
• 2004Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing — Self
• 2004Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours — Self - Editor
• 2004Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' — Self
• 2001Painting with Light — Self
• 2001The Making of 'Cape Fear' — Self
• 1998Glorious Technicolor — Self
• 1993Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' — Self
• 1990The Scorsese Machine — Self
• 1988Movies Are My Life — Self
• Invisible Women — Self