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Anne V. Coates

Editing

Born December 12, 1925 · Reigate, Surrey, England, UK

Died May 8, 2018

Biography

Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. Coates was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films Lawrence of Arabia, Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993), and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 percent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a top film editor. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honor, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which is popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy Honorary Award · 2017
  • BAFTA Fellowship · 2007
  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1963
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • BAFTA AwardBest Editing · 2001 · nominated
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  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1999 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1994 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Editing · 1994 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1981 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Editing · 1981 · nominated
  • BAFTA AwardBest Editing · 1975 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1965 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Film Editing · 1963 · nominated

Filmography45 titles

The Elephant Man

1980Editor

Lawrence of Arabia

1962Editor

The Red Shoes

1948Second Film Editor

Erin Brockovich

2000Editor

Chaplin

1992Editor

Side by Side

2012as Self

The Aviator

2004as Howard Hughes' Film Editor (uncredited)

Becket

1964Editor

Murder on the Orient Express

1974Editor

Tunes of Glory

1960Editor

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

2004as Self

In the Line of Fire

1993Editor

Ragtime

1981Editor

The Pickwick Papers

1952Editor

Sweet November

2001Editor

What About Bob?

1991Editor

Lady Jane

1986Editor

The Medusa Touch

1978Producer, Supervising Editor

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

1965Editor

Unfaithful

2002Editor

Out of Sight

1998Editor

Man Friday

1975Editor

The Horse's Mouth

1958Editor

The Eagle Has Landed

1976Editor

The Rocking Horse Winner

1949Assistant Editor

Taking Lives

2004Editor

I Love You to Death

1990Editor

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984Editor

Extraordinary Measures

2010Editor

The Golden Compass

2007Editor

The Pirates of Penzance

1983Editor

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015Editor

Catch and Release

2006Editor

Aces High

1976Editor

Friends

1971Editor

Passion of Mind

2000Editor

Out to Sea

1997Editor

Masters of the Universe

1987Editor

Raw Deal

1986Editor

11 Harrowhouse

1974Editor

Striptease

1996Editor

Congo

1995Editor

Pontiac Moon

1994Editor

Listen to Me

1989Editor

The Adventurers

1970Editor