Anne V Coates

Anne V Coates is a British film editor born 12th December 1925 in Surrey. Her career is more than 40 years long and she is still editing films to this very day. She is best known for editing Lawrence of Arabia (1962), directed by David Lean. She has been nominated 5 times for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films:

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Becket (1963)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• In The Line Of Fire (1993)
• Out Of Sight (1998)

She decided to try and become a film director and she started out working as an assistant at a production company that specialised in religious films. At this company, she fixed film prints of religious short films before she sent them out to British church tours. Through splicing the film at the production company, she gained a job as an assistant film editor at Pinewood Studios and worked on various films. Her first experience at assisting in editing a film was for the film editor, Reggie Mills. She has had a long career and the fact that she is still editing today, at the age of 88, she doesn't want to retire. In 2007, she was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, The Academy Fellowship. She is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) and also the Guild of British Film and Television (GBFTE).

Some of her best known works include:

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Out Of Sight (1998)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Unfaithful (2001)
• The Golden Compass (2007)
• Extraordinary Measures (2010)