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 |
