Film

Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic:

• Chris Dickens – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Lee Smith – The Dark Knight
  • Mike Hill and Dan Hanley – Frost/Nixon
  • Elliot Graham – Milk

Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical:

• Stephen Schaffer – WALL-E
  • Jon Gregory – In Bruges
  • Leslie Walker – Mamma Mia!
  • Greg Hayden – Tropic Thunder
  • Alisa Lepselter – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Edited Documentary Film:

• Jinx Godfrey – Man on Wire
  • Steve Audette – Bush's War
  • Stuart Levy – Chicago 10

Television

Best Edited Half-Hour Series – Television:

• Meg Reticker – 30 Rock for "Reunion"
• Jeff Groth – Entourage for "Playing with Fire"
• Dean Holland and David Rogers – The Office for "Goodbye Toby

Best Edited One-Hour Series – Commercial Television:

• Craig Bench – Boston Legal for "True Love"
• Lynne Willingham – Breaking Bad for "Pilot"
• Karen Stern – Law & Order for "Authority"

Best Edited One-Hour Series – Non-Commercial Television:

• Eric Sears – Crash for "Los Muertos"
• Michael Ruscio – True Blood for "Strange Love"
• Kate Sanford – The Wire for "More with Less"

Best Edited Miniseries or Film – Commercial Television:

• Scott Powell – 24: Redemption
• David J. Siegel – The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
• Robert Florio, Mark J. Goldman, Stephen Semel, and Henk Van Eeghen – Lost: There's No Place Like Home

Best Edited Miniseries or Film – Non-Commercial Television:

• Andy Keir – Bernard and Doris
• Melanie Oliver – John Adams for "Independence"
• Alan Baumgarten – Recount