The great NYC director Martine Scorsese has a new movie coming out called Killers of the Flower Moon. It's set in early 20th century Oklahoma and is about how the Osage tribe, which had become incredibly rich due to the vast amount of oil located on their reservation, were systematically murdered by white folks -- some of whom married into Osage families to get legal title to this land. It looks incredible with an amazing cast, and I can't wait to see it.
As a lifelong fan of Scorsese's movies, I realized something: as brilliant a director as he is, his movies probably wouldn't be as good if his editor wasn't Thelma Schoonmaker. She's edited all of his movies since Raging Bull and has won three Oscars for her work (for Raging Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed). The fights scenes in Bull, the pool playing shots in The Color of Money, the last day as a wiseguy sequence in Goodfellas -- all those and many more brilliant feats of editing in Scorsese movies -- is all because of her.
So all hail Thelm Schoonmaker! And, to give you a sense of her great career, here are her three Oscar wins from 1981 to 2007.
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