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Francoise Bonnot, the Oscar-winning editor of Costa-Gavras' 1969 thriller Z, has died. She was 78.   

Bonnot died Saturday in Paris of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Copd, her son, Patrick Malakian, told The Hollywood Reporter.

"Her life was characterized by the inspiration she gave to so many people personally as well as professionally," he said. "The age of the people she was friends with ranged from 10 to 90. She was one of the first editors to try different editing methods. I remember her editing with a rack of VHS players long before it became digital, which she ...

Francoise Bonnot, the Oscar-winning editor of Costa-Gavras' 1969 thriller Z, has died. She was 78.

Bonnot died Saturday in Paris of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD, her son, Patrick Malakian, told The Hollywood Reporter.

"Her life was characterized by the inspiration she gave to so many people personally as well as professionally," he said. "The age of the people she was friends with ranged from 10 to 90. She was one of the first editors to try different editing methods. I remember her editing with a rack of VHS players long before it became digital, which she ...

Francoise Bonnot, a film editor who won an Oscar for Z and a BAFTA Award for Missing among dozens of credits, died Saturday in Paris. She was 78.

The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Hanna K. She won a BAFTA Award for his 1982 film Missing. She also worked with such noted helmers as Jean-Jacques Annaud — on his 1976 debut feature Black and White in Color — Roman Polanski, Michael Cimino (1985’s Year of the Dragon and 1987’s The Sicilian) and four film for Julie Taymor: Titus (1999), Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007) and The Tempest (2010).

Among her earliest editing credits during a career that would span nearly a half-century was 1962’s A Monkey in Winter for director Henri Verneuil. They also would work together on three other films that decade and eventually were married.