"Jolly, chatty and extremely competent, she is an attractive, hearty person, the sort who can work all day and still have enough energy left to enjoy the evening. Anne taught me women often make better editors than men. They have more patience."
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Ronald Neame (with Barbara Roisman Cooper) Ronald Neame: An Autobiography: Straight from the Horses Mouth, Lanham, Maryland & Oxford, UK: Scarecrow Press (2003), p. 163
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Anne V. Coates
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 nominated on four other occasions for the Oscar, the other motion pictures being Becket (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only
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