SPECIAL AWARD TO THE EDITOR WITH UNIQUE VISUAL SENSITIVITY

Saturday November 7th, 2009

It's our great pleasure to announce that in 2009 the Special Award to the Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity goes to Thelma Schoonmaker.


Thelma Schoonmaker

She has won three Oscars and several other important awards presented by the film industry. She is regarded as one of Hollywood's best editors. During the upcoming edition of PLUS CAMERIMAGE Thelma Schoonmaker will collect the honorary Golden Frog to the Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity. The list of films Thelma Schoonmaker has worked on is truly impressive. Most of all, she is the closest collaborator of Martin Scorsese and for her work on his films she has received all of her Academy Awards and almost all of her nominations. The American Academy awarded her for: Raging Bull, The Aviator and The Departed. Additional nominations came with Goodfellas, Gangs of New York and editing of the legendary Woodstock, on which Scorsese also worked. Together they created such films as: Kundun, Casino, The Age of Innocence, Cape Fear, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Color of Money, The King of Comedy, among others. Thelma Schoonmaker also collaborated on Scorsese's latest movie Shutter Island.

Schoonmaker met Scorsese at a 6-week summer course at the New York University's Film School. Scorsese and she edited together his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door? Schoonmaker and Scorsese worked together again on Raging Bull and after that Schoonmaker edited all of Scorsese's features, as well as several of his documentaries, such as A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies and Il mio viaggio in Italia, and she is currently working on his documentary on the British cinema.

Besides Oscars,Thelma Schoonmaker received the BAFTA for Best Editing for Goodfellas and Raging Bull and was honored by her fellow editors with Eddie awards for The Aviator, Gangs of New York and Raging Bull, among others.

Thelma Schoonmaker devoted herself to the profession of an editor, but she works intensively also on promotion of the films and writing of her late husband, the British film director Michael Powell (Red Shoes, Peeping Tom).

Thelma Schoonmaker will be an honorary guest of PLUS CAMERIMAGE. On 29th Novemeber, she will talk about her work during a meeting at the Lodz Film School.


Selected filmography:

  • The Departed (2006) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The Aviator (2004) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Gangs of New York (2002) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Kundun (1997) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Casino (1995) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The Age of Innocence (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The King of Comedy (1982 ) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese



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