Thelma Schoonmaker
Thelma Schoonmaker
03.01.1940 (84 years) (Algiers, France [now Algeria])
Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an Algerian-born American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over fifty years. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980). Schoonmaker has received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006).