Anne V. Coates

Anne Voase Coates 12 December 1925 8 May 2018 was a British film editor with a more than 60yearlong career She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Leans 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 BAFTAs 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