Anne V. Coates

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 has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Elephant Man, In the Line of Fire and Out of Sight. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For Disney, she worked as an assembly cutter in The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men, and she edited What About Bob?, and she played an editor in The Aviator.