- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnne Voase Coates
- After harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, Anne Coates started to fulfil her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on "The Red Shoes" among others before achieving her first screen credit with "The Pickwick Papers".
- IMDb mini biography by: frankhlittle@hotmail.com
- SpouseDouglas Hickox(1958 - ?) (divorced, 3 children)
- Children
- RelativesJohn Coates(Sibling)J. Arthur Rank(Aunt or Uncle)
- She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's New Year's Eve Honours List for her services to film editing in the USA.
- Spoke for 30 minutes at a Q&A session after screening a 70mm print of LAWRENCE at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
- When she won the Best Film Editing Academy Award for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), actor Robert Stack accepted the Oscar on her behalf (Los Angeles, California / 8 April 1963).
- When I first came into the industry in England, there were quite a lot of women editors. And then slowly they fell by the wayside......When I left in 1986, I think there was only one other woman doing big features in England. But I was taught, or I must have heard it somewhere, that as it became a more important job, men started to get in on it. While it was just a background job, they let the women do it. But when people realized how interesting and creative editing could be, then the men elbowed the women out of the way and kind of took over.
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