Anne V. Coates

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-12-12 (93 years old)

Deathday

2018-05-08

Place of Birth

Reigate, Surrey, England, UK

Anne V. Coates

Biography

Anne Voase Coates (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 in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. Coates was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films Lawrence of Arabia, Becket (1963), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993), and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 percent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as...

Acting

2004

The Aviator

as Howard Hughes' Film Editor (uncredited)

2012

Production

2000

1998

Out of Sight

as Editor

1991

1995

Congo

as Editor

2001

1971

Friends

as Editor

1980

1992

Chaplin

as Editor

1962

1986

Raw Deal

as Editor

2002

Unfaithful

as Editor

2007

2004

Taking Lives

as Editor

1978

The Medusa Touch

as Producer

1993

1996

Striptease

as Editor

2006

1978

The Legacy

as Editor

1964

Becket

as Editor

1972

Follow Me!

as Editor

1976

Aces High

as Editor

1990

1965

Young Cassidy

as Editor

1949

The Chiltern Hundreds

as Assistant Editor

1948

The Red Shoes

as Second Film Editor

1949

The History of Mr. Polly

as Assistant Editor

1949

The Rocking Horse Winner

as Assistant Editor

1947

The End of the River

as Second Film Editor

1958

1970

1960

1974

1973

The Catholics

as Editor

1986

Lady Jane

as Editor

1954

1966

1997

Out to Sea

as Editor

1955

1981

Ragtime

as Editor

1975

Man Friday

as Editor

1956

Lost

as Editor

1989

Listen to Me

as Editor

1952

1968

2000

1994

Pontiac Moon

as Editor

1978

The Medusa Touch

as Supervising Editor

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