ANNE V. COATES
December 12, 1925 – May 8, 2018 (age 92)
Cause of Death: Unknown
Best known for her Academy Award winning work on “Lawrence Of Arabia,” editor Anne V. Coates would go on to work with some of the biggest directors in history, including Sidney Lumet on “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974), David Lynch on “The Elephant Man” (1980), and Steven Soderbergh on “Out Of Sight” (1998) and “Erin Brockovich” (2000). I would come to know her work on smaller titles like “Congo” (1995), “Unfaithful” (2002), and “Taking Lives” (2004) as well as her last credited work on “Fifty Shades Of Grey” (2016). A year after that, she would receive an Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Although she will truly be missed, her legacy will live on forever.
ANNE V. COATES’ ACADEMY AWARDS
| 1963 | “Lawrence Of Arabia” | Won | Best Film Editing |
| 1965 | “Becket” | Nominated | Best Film Editing |
| 1981 | “The Elephant Man” | Nominated | Best Film Editing |
| 1994 | “In The Line Of Fire” | Nominated | Best Film Editing |
| 1999 | “Out Of Sight” | Nominated | Best Film Editing |
| 2017 | Academy Honorary Award | Won | Lifetime Achievement Award |
ANNE V. COATES’ EDITING FILMOGRAPHY
| TITLE | DIRECTOR | |
| 1952 | The Pickwick Papers | Noel Langley |
| 1953 | Wicked Wife |
Bob McNaught |
| 1954 | Forbidden Cargo | Harold French |
| 1955 | To Paris With Love |
Robert Hamer |
| 1956 | Tears for Simon | Guy Green |
| 1957 | The Truth About Women | Muriel Box |
| 1958 | The Horse’s Mouth |
Ronald Neame |
| 1960 | Tunes of Glory | Ronald Neame |
| 1961 | Why Bother To Knock? |
Cyril Frankel |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean |
| 1964 | Becket |
Peter Glenville |
| 1965 | Young Cassidy |
Jack Cardiff & John Ford |
| 1965 | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines |
Ken Annakin |
| 1966 | Hotel Paradiso | Peter Glenville |
| 1968 | Great Catherine | Gordon Flemyng |
| 1970 | The Adventurers | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1971 | Friends | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1972 | Follow Me! |
Carol Reed |
| 1973 | The Nelson Affair | James Cellan Jones |
| 1973 | Conflict | Jack Gold |
| 1974 | 11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet |
| 1975 | Man Friday |
Jack Gold |
| 1976 | Aces High |
Jack Gold |
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges |
| 1978 | The Legacy |
Richard Marquand |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | David Lynch |
| 1981 | Ragtime (co-editor) |
Miloš Forman |
| 1983 | The Pirates of Penzance | Wilford Leach |
| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Hugh Hudson |
| 1986 | Lady Jane |
Trevor Nunn |
| 1986 | Raw Deal |
John Irvin |
| 1987 | Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard |
| 1989 | Farewell To The King | John Milius |
| 1989 | Listen To Me |
Douglas Day Stewart |
| 1990 | I Love You to Death | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1991 | What About Bob? | Frank Oz |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Richard Attenborough |
| 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 1994 | Pontiac Moon | Peter Medak |
| 1995 | Congo | Frank Marshall |
| 1996 | Striptease | Andrew Bergman |
| 1997 | Out To Sea |
Martha Coolidge |
| 1998 | Out Of Sight |
Steven Soderbergh |
| 2000 | Passion Of Mind |
Alain Berliner |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | Sweet November |
Pat O’Connor |
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Adrian Lyne |
| 2004 | Taking Lives |
D. J. Caruso |
| 2006 | Catch and Release |
Susannah Grant |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass |
Chris Weitz |
| 2010 | Extraordinary Measures | Tom Vaughan |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades Of Grey |
Sam Taylor-Johnson |
ANNE V. COATES’ TELEVISION WORK
| 1972 | A War of Children | Editor | Television movie |
