安·寇兹获奥斯卡终身成就荣誉奖

    British film editor Anne V Coates has been given an honorary Oscar, 53 years after her first Academy Award.

    The 90-year-old previously won an Oscar for “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1963.

    She was hailed* as “a trailblazer” by Nicole Kidman at the Governors Awards, the academy’s dedicated ceremony for honorary awards.

    Her career has spanned the 1952 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “The Pickwick Papers” and last year’s “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

    Accepting the award, Coates said: “Can you imagine a job where you’re actually paid to look into the eyes of George Clooney, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, Peter Finch, Sean Connery, Albert Finney, Clint Eastwood, Richard Gere, Daniel Craig, Arnold Schwarzenegger and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ himself Jamie Dornan?”

    Stars paid tribute to Coates at the ceremony, including Richard Gere, who appeared in the 2002 film “Unfaithful,” which she edited.

    He hailed her as “one of the great giants of our industry” and “the greatest of the great, great, great film editors.”

    Australian star Kidman said: “Anne V. Coates is not a great female editor, she is a great, great editor. She’s not trailblazer* for women, she’s a trailblazer for all of us.

    “Anne has left her mark on some of the greatest films of all time.” (SD-Agencies)