American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
The American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic is one of the annual awards given by the American Cinema Editors, awarded to what members of the American Cinema Editors Guild deem as the best edited dramatic film for a given year. Before splitting in 2000, this award included both dramatic and comedic/musical.
This award has been a good indicator of the winners and nominees for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Winners and nominees
1960s
Best Edited Feature Film| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1961 | The Parent Trap | Philip W. Anderson |
| 1961 | Fanny | William H. Reynolds |
| 1961 | The Hustler | Dede Allen |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Frederic Knudtson |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Frank P. Keller |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Samuel E. Beetley |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Anne V. Coates |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | John McSweeney Jr. |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Aaron Stell |
| 1962 | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Walter Thompson |
| 1963 | How the West Was Won | Harold F. Kress |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Dorothy Spencer |
| 1963 | Hud | Frank Bracht |
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler Jr. |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Antony Gibbs |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Cotton Warburton |
| 1964 | Becket | Anne V. Coates |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | William H. Ziegler |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Fredric Steinkamp |
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! | Marjorie Fowler |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | William H. Reynolds |
| 1965 | Dear Brigitte | Marjorie Fowler |
| 1965 | The Flight of the Phoenix | Michael Luciano |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Ralph Rosenblum |
| 1965 | Tokyo Olympiad | Richard L. Van Enger |
| 1966 | Fantastic Voyage | William B. Murphy |
| 1966 | Grand Prix | Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder and Frank Santillo |
| 1966 | The Professionals | Peter Zinner |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | William H. Reynolds |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Sam O'Steen |
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen | Michael Luciano |
| 1967 | Beach Red | Frank P. Keller |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Dede Allen |
| 1967 | Doctor Dolittle | Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Hal Ashby |
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Robert C. Jones |
| 1968 | Bullitt | Frank P. Keller |
| 1968 | The Boston Strangler | Marion Rothman |
| 1968 | Funny Girl | William Sands, Robert Swink and Maury Winetrobe |
| 1968 | The Odd Couple | Frank Bracht |
| 1968 | Oliver! | Ralph Kemplen |
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | William H. Reynolds |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Richard Marden |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | John C. Howard & Richard C. Meyer |
| 1969 | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Earle Herdan and William A. Lyon |
1970s
1980s
1990s
Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic| Year | Film | Editor |
| 1999 | The Matrix | Zach Staenberg |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Tariq Anwar and Christopher Greenbury |
| 1999 | The Insider | William Goldenberg, Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Andrew Mondshein |
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Walter Murch |