Thelma Schoonmaker, who has found acclaim as Martin Scorsese's trusted editor, picked up the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday (September 2).<br/> <br />The Algerian-born American has worked almost exclusively for Scorsese in a partnership that has spanned more than 45 years.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE Film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, saying (English):<br/> <br />"Imagine meeting Martin Scorsese when he was a 21-year-old student whose genius was about to spring into the world. Then imagine being able to work with him on 22 films over half a century. He's given me films to edit with him that are brilliant, endlessly challenging and always different from one another. Scorsese presents himself a new hurdle with each film and I get to jump over that hurdle with him. Nobody could ask for a better life in film than this."<br/> <br />Schoonmaker and Scorsese first worked together in 1967 on "Who's the Knocking at my Door?" but it was "Raging Bull" for which she won her first A
