Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in film editing category

The Great Escape(1963)

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Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.



The Rose(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.



The Dirty Dozen(1967)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 25

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.





American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



A Chorus Line(1985)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.



Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



The Right Stuff(1983)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.





Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Three Days of the Condor(1975)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



The Odd Couple(1968)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.



Z(1969)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.



The Man Who Would Be King(1975)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.



Midnight Express(1978)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.



All That Jazz(1979)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.



On Golden Pond(1981)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.



The Mission(1986)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.




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