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Anne Voase Coates [1] OBE (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.
Anne V. Coates was one of those editors whose work you noticed, not necessarily because she wanted you to, but because her work was special. Coates won an Oscar, in 1963, for turning more...
May 9, 2018 · Coates won her first editing Oscar for “Lawrence of Arabia.” (The film would fall into neglect over the years as it was cut down in order to squeeze in more showings per day, a major restoration in the 1980s that Coates helped supervise brought it back to its full glory.)
May 9, 2018 · Anne V. Coates (1925-2018), veteran editor behind legendary Lawrence of Arabia cut. Oscar-winning British film editor worked with David Lynch, Sidney Lumet and Steven Soderbergh, and spliced together one of the most famous cuts in film history.
May 10, 2018 · One day, Coates was on set and confessing her anxieties about using Avid to Out of Sight’s star, George Clooney. “But I told George I realized that they’re really just the same.
Dec 31, 2021 · Coates had a self-deprecating and “devilish” wit about her, as when she said she and her fellow film editors “are a little underrated” on the awards circuit and that a common misconception at the beginning of her career, when the Hayes code was active, was that editors were doing the censors’ jobs.
May 9, 2018 · The British film editor Anne V. Coates, who has died at the age of 92, was the niece of film mogul J. Arthur Rank. Her first film job was at Elstree repairing Rank’s early religious films on their return from church screenings.
