HPA Award for Outstanding Editing – Feature Film explained

The Hollywood Professional Association Award for Outstanding Editing in a Feature Film is an annual award given by the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) to post production workers in the film and television industry, in this case film editors. It was first awarded in 2008, and has been presented every year since.

Winners and nominees

• † – indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
• ‡ – indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

2000s

Year	Program	Nominees
2008 ^[1]
The Dark Knight ‡	Lee Smith
Into the Wild ‡	Jay Cassidy
Iron Man	Dan Lebental
2009 ^[2]
Slumdog Millionaire †	Chris Dickens
The Hurt Locker †	Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
Star Trek	Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

2010s

Year	Program	Nominees
2010 ^[3]
Inception	Lee Smith
Avatar ‡	John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin, and James Cameron
The Blind Side	Mark Livolsi
Invictus	Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Toy Story 3	Ken Schretzmann and Lee Unkrich
2011 ^[4]
The Social Network †	Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Black Swan ‡	Andrew Weisblum
Cars 2	Stephen Schaffer
Super 8	Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
	Eddie Hamilton and Lee Smith
2012 ^[5] ^[6]
Hugo ‡	Thelma Schoonmaker
The Artist ‡	Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Avengers	Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek
The Dark Knight Rises	Lee Smith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo †	Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
2013 ^[7] ^[8]
Argo †	William Goldenberg
Flight	Jeremiah O'Driscoll
Les Misérables	Melanie Oliver and Chris Dickens
Star Trek Into Darkness	Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey
Zero Dark Thirty ‡	Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
2014 ^[9] ^[10]
Captain Phillips ‡	Christopher Rouse
12 Years a Slave ‡	Joe Walker
American Hustle ‡
	Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt
Guardians of the Galaxy	Fred Raskin, Craig Wood, and Hughes Winborne
2015 ^[11]
Whiplash †	Tom Cross
American Sniper ‡	Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
The Imitation Game ‡
Interstellar	Lee Smith
Selma	Spencer Averick
2016 ^[12]
The Big Short ‡	Hank Corwin
The Martian	Pietro Scalia
The Revenant ‡
Sicario	Joe Walker
Spotlight ‡	Tom McArdle
2017 ^[13]
Dunkirk †	Lee Smith
Get Out	Gregory Plotkin
Hidden Figures
The Ivory Game	Verena Schönauer
Lion	Alexandre de Franceschi
2018 ^[14]
A Quiet Place	Christopher Tellefsen
Believer	Demian Fenton
Coco	Steve Bloom
	Eddie Hamilton
You Were Never Really Here	Joe Bini
2019 ^[15]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Fred Raskin
Green Book ‡	Patrick J. Don Vito
The Other Side of the Wind	Orson Welles and Bob Murawski
	Damian Rodriguez and David Tedeschi
A Star Is Born	Jay Cassidy

2020s

Year	Program	Nominees
2020 ^[16]
	Parasite ‡	Yang Jin-mo
	Joker ‡	Jeff Groth
	Ford v Ferrari †	Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland
	Jojo Rabbit ‡	Tom Eagles
	The Two Popes	Fernando Stutz
2021 ^[17]
	Sound of Metal †	Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
	The Father ‡	Yorgos Lamprinos
	Minari	Harry Yoon
	Soul	Kevin Nolting
	The Trial of the Chicago 7 ‡	Alan Baumgarten
2022 ^[18]	Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
	Tick, Tick... Boom! ‡	Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
	Belfast	Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
	No Time to Die	Elliot Graham and Tom Cross
	‡	Eddie Hamilton
	Encanto	Jeremy Milton
	Outstanding Editing – Documentary/Nonfiction – Theatrical Feature
	Summer of Soul	Joshua L. Pearson
	Navalny	Maya Hawke and Langdon Page
	The Janes	Kristen Huntley
	Flee	Janus Billeskov Jansen
	Lucy and Desi	Robert A. Martinez
	How to Survive a Pandemic	Tyler H. Walk and Adam Evans
2023 ^[19]	Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
	Oppenheimer	Jennifer Lame
	Barbie	Nick Houy
		Eddie Hamilton
		Michael Andrews
	Tár ‡	Monika Willi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nominees/Winners . . May 21, 2019.
2. Web site: Nominees/Winners . . May 21, 2019.
3. Web site: Nominees/Winners . . May 21, 2019.
4. Web site: Nominees/Winners . . May 21, 2019.
5. Web site: Nominees Announced for 2012 HPA Awards . 13 September 2012 . . May 22, 2019.
6. Web site: Hollywood Post Alliance hands out tech honors . 2 November 2012 . . May 22, 2019.
7. Web site: 2013 HPA Awards Announce Craft Category Nominees And Special Award Winners . 9 September 2013 . . May 22, 2019.
8. Web site: 2013 Hollywood Post Alliance Award Winners Announced . 8 November 2013 . . May 22, 2019.
9. Web site: The Hollywood Post Alliance Announces Nominees for the 2014 HPA Awards . 10 September 2014 . . May 22, 2019.
10. Web site: 2013 Hollywood Post Alliance Award Winners Announced . 7 November 2014 . . May 22, 2019.
11. Web site: Hollywood Post Alliance® Announces 2015 Award Winners . 16 November 2015 . . May 22, 2019.
12. Web site: 2016 HPA Awards . . May 22, 2019.
13. Web site: 2017 HPA Awards . . May 22, 2019.
14. Web site: 2018 HPA Awards . . May 23, 2019.
15. Web site: 2019 HPA Awards . . December 17, 2019.
16. Web site: Vlessing . Etan . November 19, 2020 . HPA Awards: ‘Parasite’ Wins Best Editing in a Feature . November 29, 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
17. Web site: November 18, 2021 . HPA Awards: ‘Sound of Metal,’ ‘Black Widow’ Among 2021 Winners . November 29, 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
18. Web site: October 4, 2022 . ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘The Batman,’ ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Among HPA Award Nominees . November 29, 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
19. Web site: Giardina . Carolyn . November 29, 2023 . ‘Oppenheimer’ Tops HPA Awards . November 29, 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.