 | 2003 | Jamie Selkirk THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
| 2002 | Martin Walsh CHICAGO
| 2001 | Pietro Scalia BLACK HAWK DOWN
| 2000 | Stephen Mirrione TRAFFIC
| 1999 | Zach Staenberg THE MATRIX
| 1998 | Michael Kahn SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
| 1997 | Conrad Buff, James Cameron & Richard A. Harris TITANIC
| 1996 | Walter Murch THE ENGLISH PATIENT
| 1995 | Mike Hill & Dan Hanley APOLLO 13
| 1994 | Arthur P. Schmidt FORREST GUMP
| 1993 | Michael Kahn SCHINDLER'S LIST
| 1992 | Joel Cox UNFORGIVEN
| 1991 | Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia JFK
| 1990 | Neil Travis DANCES WITH WOLVES
| 1989 | David Brenner & Joe Hutshing BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
| 1988 | Arthur P. Schmidt WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
| 1987 | Gabriella Cristiani THE LAST EMPEROR
| 1986 | Claire Simpson PLATOON
| 1985 | Thom Noble WITNESS
| 1984 | Jim Clark THE KILLING FIELDS
| 1983 | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart & Tom Rolf THE RIGHT STUFF
| 1982 | John Bloom GANDHI
| 1981 | Michael Kahn RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
| 1980 | Thelma Schoonmaker RAGING BULL
| 1979 | Alan Heim ALL THAT JAZZ
| 1978 | Peter Zinner THE DEER HUNTER
| 1977 | Marcia Lucas, Paul Hirsch & Richard Chew STAR WARS
| 1976 | Richard Halsey & Scott Conrad ROCKY
| 1975 | Verna Fields JAWS
| 1974 | Harold F. Kress & Carl Kress THE TOWERING INFERNO
| 1973 | William H. Reynolds THE STING
| 1972 | David Bretherton CABARET
| 1971 | Jerry Greenberg THE FRENCH CONNECTION
| 1970 | Hugh S. Fowler PATTON
| 1969 | Françoise Bonnot Z
| 1968 | Frank P. Keller BULLITT
| 1967 | Hal Ashby IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
| 1966 | Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart "Stu" Linder & Frank Santillo GRAND PRIX
| 1965 | William H. Reynolds THE SOUND OF MUSIC
| 1964 | Irvine "Cotton" Warburton MARY POPPINS
| 1963 | Harold F. Kress HOW THE WEST WAS WON
| 1962 | Anne V. Coates LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
| 1961 | Thomas Stanford WEST SIDE STORY
| 1960 | Daniel Mandell THE APARTMENT
| 1959 | Ralph E. Winters & John D. Dunning BEN-HUR
| 1958 | Adrienne Fazan GIGI
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