This veteran editor has credits spanning forty years beginning with the enjoyable adaptation of Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers" (1952). Her projects range from the epic, "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) for which she received an Oscar, to the claustrophobic, "The Elephant Man" (1980). Her styling can span genres and styles from "Ragtime" (1981) to "In the Line of Fire" (1993). For her editing of "In the Line of Fire," Coates accrued her fourth Academy Award nomination. She netted a fifth Oscar nod for cutting "Out of Sight" in 1998 and reunited with director Steven Soderbergh on "Erin Brockovich" in 2000.
- Also Credited As:
Anne Coates, Anne Coates-Hickox
- Born:
in Reigate, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
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Job Titles:
Editor, Producer, Editorial consultant, Film librarian, Projectionist, Nurse
Family
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Daughter: Emma Hickox.
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Son: Anthony Hickox.
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Son: James Hickox.
Education
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Bartrum Gables College, England
Milestones
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1952 Feature debut as an editor, The Pickwick Papers
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1960 Edited Tunes of Glory
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1962 Received Best Film Editing Academy Award for work on Lawence of Arabia , directed by David Lean
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1964 Received Oscar nomination for editing of Becket , helmed by Peter Glenville
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1966 Reteamed with Glenville for Hotel Paradiso
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1968 Initial collaboration with director Jack Gold, The Bofors Gun
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1970 First American production, The Adventurers
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1974 Edited Murder on the Orient Express
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1975 Reteamed with Gold on Man Friday
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1978 Producer and editorial supervisor, The Medusa Touch ; last feature collaboration with Jack Gold
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1980 Received third Best Film Editing Academy Award for The Elephant Man
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1982 Cut the musical film The Pirates of Penzance
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1984 Was editor on Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
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1990 Cut Lawrence Kasdan s black comedy I Love You to Death
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1992 Served as editor on Richard Attenborough s biopic Chaplin
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1993 Earned fourth Oscar nomination for her editing of the drama In the Line of Fire
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1995 Served as editor on the jungle adventure Congo
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1998 Garnered fifth Academy Award nomination for her superb editing of Out of Sight , directed by Steven Soderbergh
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2000 Reunited with Soderbergh to cut Erin Brockovich
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Was a projectionist and librarian of religious films
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Worked as a nurse at the East Grinstead Plastic Surgery Hospital