Anne V. Coates

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1925 age 0

   Born

2. 1962 age 37

   CreditLawrence of Arabiafilm editor

3. 1964 age 39

   CreditBecketfilm editor

4. 1965 age 40

   CreditThose Magnificent Men in their Flying Machinesfilm editor

5. 1974 age 49

   CreditMurder on the Orient Expressfilm editor

6. 1976 age 51

   CreditThe Eagle Has Landedfilm editor

7. 1980 age 55

   CreditThe Elephant Manfilm editor

8. 1986 age 61

   CreditRaw Dealfilm editor

9. 1987 age 62

   CreditMasters of the Universefilm editor

10. 1992 age 67

    CreditChaplinfilm editor

11. 1993 age 68

    CreditIn the Line of Firefilm editor

12. 1995 age 70

    CreditCongofilm editor

13. 1996 age 71

    CreditStripteasefilm editor

14. 1998 age 73

    CreditOut of Sightfilm editor

15. 2000 age 75

    CreditErin Brockovichfilm editor

16. 2001 age 76

    CreditSweet Novemberfilm editor

17. 2002 age 77

    CreditUnfaithfulfilm editor

18. 2004 age 79

    CreditTaking Livesfilm editor

19. 2007 age 82

    CreditThe Golden Compassfilm editor

20. 2015 age 90

    CreditFifty Shades of Greyfilm editor

21. 2018 age 92

    Died

• JSJohn Standing3 titles
• RRRobert Riettii3 titles
• JGJohn Gielgud3 titles
• VRVing Rhames2 titles
• MSMichael Shamberg2 titles
• SSStacey Sher2 titles
• DDDanny DeVito2 titles
• AHAnthony Hopkins2 titles
• SCStuart Craig2 titles
• GUGeoffrey Unsworth2 titles

• Children

  • EHEmma E. Hickox

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• We had mostly pilots in the hospital, [...] and kids who had been playing with bombs they found on the ground and stuff. Pretty harroing, actually but it was intriguing for me just to be meeting other people (en) it opened my mind to communism and things like that which shocked my family.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.<br />There were some wonderful women editors who helped inspire me to go into editing in England. In a way, I've never looked at myself as a woman in the business. I've just looked at myself as an editor. I mean, I'm sure I've been turned down because I'm a woman, but then other times I've been used because they wanted a woman editor.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Women are mostly mothers and directors are mostly children, so the two go very well together.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Asked: "How did your famous match cut in Lawrence of Arabia — the cut from a close-up of Peter O’Toole blowing out a match to a wide shot of the sun rising over the desert — come about?"] By accident. When we were cutting Lawrence, we were working on film, and so when we were running the sequence, we saw it cut together. Nowadays using digital, you would have done a [dissolve] in the machine, and you never would have seen it cut together like it was. Almost at the same moment, David Lean and I looked at each other and said, "That’s a fabulous cut." He said, "It’s not quite perfect — take it away and make it perfect," and I literally took two frames off the outgoing shot, and that's the way it is today.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [T]here were only certain jobs open to women. Things like hairdressing didn't really interest me. I might have been interested in photography, but women couldn't do that in those days. I found the most interesting job a woman could do, other than acting, was editing.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I used to have to get my courage up to offer my ideas to David Lean, but that improved as time went on. He used to say to me, "That’s a ridiculous idea, I’ve never heard of such a thing." And I would feel awful. But then he would come up to me a day or two later and say, "You know that idea you had, it's not exactly that but it's close.” It was always worth putting up the ideas. I'm not crushed if they don't want to use them, it's a point of view.

  Anne V. Coates, CC BY-SA 4.0