Craft List – Scene by Green

Films from the last 10 years have not been included on this list, and will be eligible in future updates when the moratorium has passed.

Film	Editor	Year
1. Battleship Potemkin	Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov	1925
2. Raging Bull	Thelma Schoonmaker	1980
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Nino Baragli, Eugenio Alabiso	1966
4. Intolerance	D.W. Griffith, James Smith, Rose Smith	1916
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc	Marguerite Beaugé, Carl Theodor Dreyer	1928
6. JFK	Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia	1991
7. Breathless	Cécile Decugis	1960
8. Apocalypse Now	Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman	1979
9. Tokyo Story	Yoshiyasu Hamamura	1953
10. Psycho	George Tomasini	1960
11. The Wild Bunch	Lou Lombardo	1969
12. Once Upon a Time in the West	Nino Baragli	1968
13. Strike	Sergei Eisenstein	1925
14. The Birth of a Nation	D.W. Griffith, James Smith, Rose Smith	1915
15. Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	1950
16. The Godfather Part II	Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin, Richard Marks	1974
17. The French Connection	Gerald B. Greenberg	1971
18. Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	1954
19. Citizen Kane	Robert Wise	1941
20. Requiem for a Dream	Jay Rabinowitz	2000
21. Jules and Jim	Claudine Bouché	1962
22. The Godfather	William Reynolds, Peter Zinner	1972
23. Whiplash	Tom Cross	2014
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey	Ray Lovejoy	1968
25. Performance	Antony Gibbs, Brian Smedley-Aston, Frank Mazzola	1970
26. Moulin Rouge	Jill Bilcock	2001
27. Don’t Look Now	Graeme Clifford	1973
28. Napoleon	Marguerite Beaugé	1927
29. Inception	Lee Smith	2010
30. October	Sergei Eisenstein	1928
31. Lawrence of Arabia	Anne V. Coates	1962
32. Chungking Express	William Chang, Kai Kit-wai, Kwong Chi-Leung	1994
33. Rear Window	George Tomasini	1954
34. Jaws	Verna Fields	1975
35. Once Upon a Time in America	Nino Baragli	1984
36. Stagecoach	Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer	1939
37. Pulp Fiction	Sally Menke	1994
38. Goodfellas	Thelma Schoonmaker	1990
39. Run Lola Run	Mathilde Bonnefoy	1998
40. Persona	Ulla Ryghe	1966
41. Distant Voices, Still Lives	William Diver	1988
42. Mad Max: Fury Road	Margaret Sixel	2015
43. Taxi Driver	Marcia Lucas, Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro	1976
44. Pierrot Le Fou	Françoise Collin	1965
45. The Tree of Life	Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa	2011
46. The Fountain	Jay Rabinowitz	2006
47. The Matrix	Zach Staenberg	1999
48. I Am Cuba	Nina Glagoleva	1964
49. We Need to Talk About Kevin	Joe Bini	2011
50. Trainspotting	Masahiro Hirakubo	1996
51. The Thin Red Line	Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, Saar Klein	1998
52. Cabaret	David Bretherton	1972
53. Bonnie and Clyde	Dede Allen	1967
54. The End of Summer	Koichi Iwashita	1961
55. 8 1/2	Leo Catozzo	1963
56. Vertigo	George Tomasini	1958
57. Early Summer	Yoshiyasu Hamamura	1951
58. In the Mood for Love	William Chang	2000
59. Do the Right Thing	Barry Alexander Brown	1989
60. Manhattan	Susan E. Morse	1979
61. Enter the Void	Gaspar Noé, Marc Boucrot, Jérôme Pesnel	2009
62. Last Year at Marienbad	Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney	1961
63. The New World	Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, Saar Klein, Mark Yoshikawa	2005
64. Days of Heaven	Billy Weber	1978
65. Raiders of the Lost Ark	Michael Kahn	1981
66. Midnight Cowboy	Hugh A. Robertson	1969
67. La Roue	Marguerite Beaugé	1923
68. Lenny	Alan Heim	1974
69. The Man Who Fell to Earth	Graeme Clifford	1976
70. Reservoir Dogs	Sally Menke	1992
71. Late Spring	Yoshiyasu Hamamura	1949
72. Annie Hall	Ralph Rosenblum, Wendy Greene Bricmont	1977
73. Shame	Joe Walker	2011
74. Millennium Actress	Satoshi Terauchi	2001
75. Hot Fuzz	Chris Dickens	2007
76. The Big Short	Hank Corwin	2015
77. The Grandmaster	William Chang	2013
78. Saving Private Ryan	Michael Kahn	1998
79. Mulholland Drive	Mary Sweeney	2001
80. The Conversation	Walter Murch, Richard Chew	1974
81. A Fistful of Dollars	Roberto Cinquini	1964
82. Easy Rider	Donn Cambern	1969
83. There Will Be Blood	Dylan Tichenor	2007
84. The Master	Peter McNulty, Leslie Jones	2012
85. Mr Smith Goes to Washington	Gene Havlick, Al Clark	1939
86. For a Few Dollars More	Eugenio Alabiso, Giorgio Serrallonga, Adriana Novelli	1965
87. The Third Man	Oswald Hafenrichter	1949
88. Blow Out	Paul Hirsch	1981
89. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss	2010
90. Ran	Akira Kurosawa	1985
91. Wings	E. Lloyd, Sheldon Lucien Hubbard	1927
92. Alexander Nevsky	Sergei Eisenstein	1938
93. North by Northwest	George Tomasini	1959
94. Memento	Dody Dorn	2000
95. Mother	Vsevolod Pudovkin	1926
96. Juliet of the Spirits	Ruggero Mastroianni	1965
97. Carrie	Paul Hirsch	1976
98. Earth	Oleksandr Dovzhenko	1930
99. The Lord of the Rings	John Gilbert, Michael J. Horton, Jamie Selkirk	2001
100. Magnolia	Dylan Tichenor	1999

*Yoshiyasu Hamamura’s gentle montage editing through ‘pillow shots’ in Tokyo Story (1953).*

Films from the last 10 years have not been included on this list, and will be eligible in future updates when the moratorium has passed.

Film	Screenwriter	Year
1. Chinatown	Roman Polanski, Robert Towne	1974
2. The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo	1972
3. Citizen Kane	Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz	1941
4. Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	1994
5. Taxi Driver	Paul Schrader	1976
6. The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman	1957
7. Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944
8. The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo	1974
9. Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	1950
10. The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	2010
11. Annie Hall	Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman	1977
12. All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1950
13. Casablanca	Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch	1942
14. There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	2007
15. Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese	1990
16. Raging Bull	Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin	1980
17. The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	2012
18. Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto	1950
19. Persona	Ingmar Bergman	1966
20. Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino	1992
21. Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman	1973
22. Lawrence of Arabia	Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson	1962
23. The Big Sleep	Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner, Jules Furthman	1946
24. La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi, Pier Paolo Pasolini	1960
25. Winter Light	Ingmar Bergman	1963
26. Fargo	The Coen Brothers	1996
27. Bringing Up Baby	Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde	1938
28. Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni	1954
29. No Country For Old Men	The Coen Brothers	2007
30. His Girl Friday	Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht	1940
31. Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern	1964
32. 8 1/2	Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi	1963
33. The Big Lebowski	The Coen Brothers	1998
34. Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	1957
35. The Third Man	Graham Greene	1949
36. High and Low	Ryūzō Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa	1963
37. All the President’s Men	William Goldman	1976
38. The Graduate	Calder Willingham, Buck Henry	1967
39. The Apartment	Billy Wilder	1960
40. Psycho	Joseph Stefano	1960
41. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	William Goldman	1969
42. Manhattan	Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman	1979
43. Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman	2008
44. Network	Paddy Chayefsky	1976
45. Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	2009
46. It’s a Wonderful Life	Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra	1946
47. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman	2004
48. Inside Llewyn Davis	The Coen Brothers	2013
49. A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	1971
50. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman	1975
51. The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir, Carl Koch	1939
52. Vertigo	Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor	1958
53. Hiroshima Mon Amour	Marguerite Duras	1959
54. Rear Window	John Michael Hayes	1954
55. Memento	Christopher Nolan	2000
56. Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	1999
57. The 400 Blows	Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy	1959
58. 12 Angry Men	Reginald Rose	1957
59. The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	1941
60. L.A. Confidential	Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson	1997
61. On the Waterfront	Budd Schulberg	1954
62. Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen	1986
63. Dead Man	Jim Jarmusch	1995
64. Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni	1952
65. Groundhog Day	Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis	1993
66. Mulholland Drive	David Lynch	2001
67. Some Like it Hot	Billy Wilder	1959
68. Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bó	2014
69. Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz	1989
70. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader	1985
71. Out of the Past	Daniel Mainwaring	1947
72. Apocalypse Now	John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola	1979
73. Before Sunset	Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke	2004
74. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	1948
75. My Dinner with Andre	Wallace Shawn, André Gregory	1981
76. Naked	Mike Leigh	1993
77. Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	1958
78. Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Robbe-Grillet	1961
79. The Usual Suspects	Christopher McQuarrie	1995
80. Crimes and Misdemeanours	Woody Allen	1989
81. Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989
82. The Best Years of our Lives	Robert E. Sherwood	1946
83. Rio Bravo	Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett	1959
84. Notorious	Ben Hecht	1946
85. Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier, Peter Asmussen	1996
86. Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy	2013
87. The Long Goodbye	Leigh Brackett	1973
88. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière	1972
89. Three Colours: Red	Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz	1994
90. Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	1982
91. Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson	2002
92. M	Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou	1931
93. North by Northwest	Ernest Lehman	1959
94. The Lady Eve	Preston Sturges	1941
95. A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes	1974
96. The Searchers	Frank S. Nugent	1956
97. Stalker	Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky	1979
98. JFK	Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar	1991
99. The Departed	William Monahan	2006
100. Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale	1985

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