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Thelma Schoonmaker

Editing Born Jan 3, 1940 Algiers, French Algeria [now Algeria] 24 credits

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).

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Scorsese's GoodFellas

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  • Scorsese's GoodFellas (2015) as Self
  • Mr. Scorsese (2025) as Self
  • Bad 25 (2012) as Self
  • Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' (2004) as Self
  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) as Self – Interviewee
  • Edge of Outside (2006) as Self
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration (2026) as (herself)
  • The Making of 'Cape Fear' (2001) as Self
  • Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' (1993) as Self
  • The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman (2020) as Self
  • Michael Powell (2005)
  • Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing (2004) as Self
  • Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence (2017) as Self
  • Movies Are My Life (1988) as Self
  • Raging Bull: Outside the Ring (2005) as Self
  • At the Video Store (2019) as Self
  • The Eye of the Beholder (2005) as Self
  • Invisible Women as Herself
  • Raging Bull: Inside the Ring (2005) as Self
  • Inside Rupert Pupkin (2014) as Self
  • Glorious Technicolor (1998) as Self
  • Raging Bull: After the Fight (2005) as Self
  • The Scorsese Machine (1990) as Self
  • Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell (2024)