In his career, Frank Morriss was nominated for a BAFTA Award, was honored as "film editor of the year" at the Primetime Emmy Awards, and was twice nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing.
Morriss' editing of Charley Varrick (1973) was nominated for the BAFTA Award. He was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for Blue Thunder (1983, with Edward M. Abroms) and for Romancing the Stone (1984, with Donn Cambern). 
