Editing Top Gun (section)

=== Accolades===
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[59th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Billy Weber]] and [[Chris Lebenzon]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |title=The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 16, 2011 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109082101/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1987 |archive-date=November 9, 2014}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| "[[Take My Breath Away]]" <br> Music by [[Giorgio Moroder]]; <br> Lyrics by [[Tom Whitlock]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Donald O. Mitchell]], [[Kevin O'Connell (sound mixer)|Kevin O'Connell]], [[Rick Kline]], and [[William B. Kaplan]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound Editing|Best Sound Effects Editing]]
| [[Cecelia Hall (sound editor)|Cecelia Hall]] and [[George Watters II]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards]]
| Top Box Office Films
| [[Harold Faltermeyer]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures
| "Take My Breath Away" <br> Music by Giorgio Moroder; <br> Lyrics by Tom Whitlock
| {{won}}
|-
| [[7th Brit Awards|Brit Awards]]
| [[Brit Award for Soundtrack/Cast Recording|Best Soundtrack]]
| ''Top Gun''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[44th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score – Motion Picture]]
| Harold Faltermeyer
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/top-gun/ |title=Top Gun |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song – Motion Picture]]
| "Take My Breath Away" <br> Music by Giorgio Moroder; <br> Lyrics by Tom Whitlock
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Motion Picture Sound Editors#Golden Reel Awards|Golden Reel Awards]]
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film|Best Sound Editing – ADR]]
| Andy Patterson and Juno J. Ellis
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film|Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects]]
| {{won}}
|-
| colspan="3"| [[Goldene Leinwand|Golden Screen Awards]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[29th Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance|Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)]]
| "[[Top Gun Anthem|''Top Gun'' Anthem]]" – Harold Faltermeyer and [[Steve Stevens]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/29th-annual-grammy-awards |title=29th Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]]
| "''Top Gun'' Anthem" – Harold Faltermeyer
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Japan Academy Film Prize]]
| colspan="2"| [[Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film|Outstanding Foreign Language Film]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-15-216/ |title=2015 National Film Registry: "Ghostbusters" Gets the Call |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[13th People's Choice Awards|People's Choice Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Favorite Motion Picture
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|}

* In 2008, the film was ranked at number 455 in ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''{{'}}s list of the 500 greatest films of all time.<ref>[https://www.empireonline.com/500/8.asp The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170317/http://www.empireonline.com/500/8.asp |date=January 19, 2012}}. ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''.</ref>
* [[Yahoo! Movies]] ranked ''Top Gun'' number 19 on their list of greatest action films of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/|title=Yahoo Movies|work=yahoo.com|access-date=January 15, 2017|archive-date=December 12, 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981212015742/http://movies.yahoo.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

;[[American Film Institute]] list
*[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes]]:
**"I feel the need—the need for speed." – #94