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The editing of the car chase likely won [[Frank P. Keller]] the editing [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for 1968,<ref name=Hartl>{{cite news |last=Hartl |first=John |title=Top 10 car chase movies |url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/6091432 |work=[[MSNBC]] |access-date=November 7, 2010 |quote=''Bullitt'' (1968). Philip D'Antoni, who went on to produce ''The French Connection'', warmed up for it with this Steve McQueen crime drama, set in San Francisco, where the steep hills seem to yearn for cars to go sailing over them. The director, Peter Yates, makes the most of the locations, especially during a gravity-defying chase sequence that earned an Oscar for its editor, Frank P. Keller. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916231758/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/6091432 |archive-date=September 16, 2010}}</ref> and has been included in lists of the "Best Editing Sequences of All-Time."<ref name=Dirks>{{cite web |title=Best Film Editing Sequences of All Time, From the Silents to the Present: Part 5 |last=Dirks |first=Tim |url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting5.html |publisher=[[Filmsite.org]] |access-date=November 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121000656/http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting5.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the volume ''The Sixties: 1960-1969'' (2003), of his book series
''History of the American Cinema'', Cinema Arts professor Paul Monaco wrote:
{{whoBlockquote|date=December 2023}} wrote, "The most compelling street footage of 1968, however, appeared in an entirely contrived sequence, with nary a hint of documentary feel about it – the car chase through the streets of San Francisco in ''Bullitt'', created from footage shot over nearly five weeks.<ref name="Monaco"/>}}