Anne V. Coates

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Anne Voase Coates , OBE (born December 12, 1925 in Reigate , Surrey , United Kingdom - † May 8, 2018 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles ) was a British film editor .

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Prior to her career in the film business, Coates worked as a nurse. From 1947 she worked as an assistant editor in the field of film editing . She presented her first independent work as an editor in 1952. In 1962 she was awarded the Oscar for Best Film Editing by Lawrence of Arabia . In her further career, she received four more Oscar nominations. Coates has worked as a film editor on famous films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance (1993) and Erin Brockovich (2000). In 1978 she received the only producer credit of her career for the film The Horror of Medusa . She worked as an editor well into old age, most recently in 2015 for the erotic film Fifty Shades of Gray .

Coates was married to director Douglas Hickox since 1958 . Together they had three children, director Anthony Hickox , editor Emma E. Hickox and director James DR Hickox .

In 1995 she received the Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors . In 2003 she was appointed Officer of the British Empire . In 2007 she received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Honorary Award . In 2016 she was awarded the Oscar of Honor . She died in May 2018, aged 92, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodlands Hills, Los Angeles.

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  1. ^ A b Mike Barnes: Anne V. Coates Dead: 'Lawrence of Arabia' Film Editor Dies at 92. In: Hollywood Reporter. May 9, 2018, accessed May 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Cutter Anne V. Coates has died. In: Deutschlandfunk. May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman to receive Academy's 2016 Governors Awards at oscars.org, September 1, 2016 (accessed September 2, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Coates, Anne V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coates, Anne Voase (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Reigate , Surrey , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2018
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles