Anne V. Coates - one of the finest Film Editors since the 40s Dies at 92 - with a catalog of achievements such as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) earning her an Academy Award for film editing along with 4 other Oscar nominations, her achievements speak for themselves::
- Sidney Lumet's "Murder On The Orient Express" (1974)
- David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980)
- Powell & Pressburger's "The Red Shoes" (1948)
- Peter Glenville's "Becket" (1964)
- Miloš Forman's "Ragtime" (1981)
and in recent years
- Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire" (1993)
- Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin" (1992)
- Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight" (1998)
“Women are mostly mothers and directors are mostly children, so the two go very well together,”
With such a vast body of work and meticulous style of cutting, she will go down as one of the best to ever splice celluloid... I will continue to learn from watching your style from afar. RIP
