Anne V. Coates

Anne V. Coates
Born
Anne Voase Coates

(1925-12-12)12 December 1925
Died8 May 2018(2018-05-08) (aged 92)
Other namesAnne Coates
Anne Coates-Hickox
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1947–2015
Spouse
(m. 1958, divorced)
Children3
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
1963 Lawrence of Arabia
American Cinema Editors
1995 Career Achievement Award
2016
Academy Honorary Award

Anne Voase Coates 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 (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Coates was also Oscar-nominated for Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998).