The Saturn Award for Best Editing (originally Saturn Award for Outstanding Editing) is one of the annual awards given by the

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. The

Saturn Awards The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films be ...

, which are the oldest

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-specialized awards to honor

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, and horror in film (the

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for Best Dramatic Presentation is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the category for the first time at the 5th Saturn Awards. The award was discontinued after being awarded again at the following ceremony, but was reactivated for the 38th ceremony in 2012. Paul Hirsch, who won the inaugural award for ''

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'' (1977), sharing the award with

Marcia Lucas Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945) * * is an American film editor and film producer. She is best known for her work editing Martin Scorsese's '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1973), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and '' New York, ...

and

Richard Chew Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ''Star Wars'' (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ...

, won it again thirty-four years later for '' Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'' (2011); he is currently the only editor to have won it twice.

Winners and nominees

1970s

2010s

2020s

Multiple nominations

;5 nominations * Jeffrey Ford ;4 nominations * Christian Wagner ;3 nominations * Maryann Brandon * Bob Ducsay * John Gilroy * Fred Raskin * Matthew Schmidt ;2 nominations * Leigh Folsom Boyd * Mark Day * Stefan Grube * Eddie Hamilton * James Herbert * Dylan Highsmith * Michael Kahn * Mary Jo Markey * Kelly Matsumoto * Nicholas Monsour * Kirk Morri * Tim Squyres

Winners and nominees

1970s

2010s

2020s

Multiple nominations

Multiple wins

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