Thelma Schoonmaker
Also Known As: Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell
Biography: Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for her collaboration over five decades with director Martin Scorsese. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four ACE Eddie Awards. She has been honored with the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1997, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2014, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2019. started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and has edited all of his films since Raging Bull (1980). She has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, winning three—for Raging Bull, The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), both records. She has also been nominated eleven times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, winning for Raging Bull and Goodfellas (1990).
Department: Editing
Place of Birth: Algiers, French Algeria [now Algeria]
Birthday: January 03, 1940
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Gender: Female
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Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Overview: The second part about the production of "Raging Bull."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-08
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Scorsese's GoodFellas
Overview: In this produced by Brett Ratner new retrospective documentary we hear from cast members and additional participants include Harvey Keitel, Leonardo DiCaprio and Terence Winter, creator of Boardwalk Empire and screenwriter of The Wolf of Wall Street. The program gives us thoughts about Scorsese's approach to the material, casting, characters, and performances, costumes and period details, photography, music, and retrospective thoughts about the film. It is filled with memorable stories and observations from a wide array of commentators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-05
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Raging Bull: After the Fight
Overview: The fourth and final installment about the production of "Raging Bull."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-08
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Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Overview: The third part about the production of "Raging Bull."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-08
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The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Overview: A retrospective documentary on the making of Cape Fear (1991) and Cape Fear (1962).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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The Eye of the Beholder
Overview: A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Overview: A documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's After Hours.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Edge of Outside
Overview: An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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At the Video Store
Overview: Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
Overview: Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-14
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Bad 25
Overview: Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Overview: A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), the successful film that redefined the mafia on the big screen. Featuring interviews with cast and crew and clips from the movie, this retrospective documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes experiences of what would turn out to be one of the greatest films ever made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Filming for Your Life: Making ‘After Hours’
Overview: The making of Martin Scorsese's cult film "After Hours" is discussed by the director himself, Griffin Dunne, editor Thelma Schoonmaker and producer Amy Robinson, almost 20 years later of its release. They share stories about the movie's inception, the filming process and curious behind the scenes stories about the movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Visions, Dreams and Magic: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell
Overview: Discover the unrealised visions and passion projects of revered British filmmaker Michael Powell, in this fascinating documentary featuring Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-02
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The Scorsese Machine
Overview: Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films in the 80s, he reunited with Robert DeNiro for "Goodfellas" and later that year shot a segment for "New York Stories", an anthology film of three shorts by Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola. During the editing, the French documentary series "Cinéma, de notre temps" filmed a documentary on the director, and it's a fascinating glimpse into his life, personality, and working habits as he edits his short with long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Painting with Light
Overview: An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Overview: A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Glorious Technicolor
Overview: The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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The Key to Reserva
Overview: Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Thelma Schoonmaker Powell on 'The Red Shoes'
Overview: Interview with director Michael Powell’s widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-20
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Optimism and Sheer Will
Overview: An interview with Thelma Schoonmaker Powell about Powell and Pressburger's 1943 film THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-05
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Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing
Overview: Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman
Overview: Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino as we go behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Overview: In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Martin Scorsese's "Silence."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-28
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Michael Powell
Overview: The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews many people who knew or worked with him or were influenced by his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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