What is Thelma Schoonmaker?
{{Infobox person | name = Thelma Schoonmaker | image = Thelma Schoonmaker KVIFF (cropped).jpg | caption = Schoonmaker at the [[2010 Karlovy Vary Film Festival]] | birth_name = Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|1|3}} | birth_place = [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]] | spouse = [[Michael Powell]] (1984–1990; his death) | alma_mater = [[Cornell University]] | occupation = Film editor | years_active = 1966–present }} '''Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker''' (born January 3, 1940) is an Algerian-born American [[movie editor]]. She is known for working with [[Film director|director]] [[Martin Scorsese]] for over fifty years.<ref>[http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/183482|183483/Thelma-Schoonmaker-Profile.html Thelma Schoonmaker Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113185751/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/183482%7C183483/Thelma-Schoonmaker-Profile.html |date=2019-11-13 }}, Turner Classic Movies Film Article; retrieved February 5, 2013.</ref> She started working with Scorsese on his first movie ''[[Who's That Knocking at My Door]]'' (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's movies since ''[[Raging Bull]]'' (1980). Schoonmaker has received seven [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], and has won three times—for ''Raging Bull'' (1980), ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), and ''[[The Departed]]'' (2006). ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|774817}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schoonmaker, Thelma}} [[Category:Academy Award winning editors]] [[Category:BAFTA Award winners]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:People from Algiers]] {{US-bio-stub}}