"The hand that rocks the cradle", The Independent (London, 19 November 1998), p. 12
• Coates worked as a nurse before she was able to enter the film industry, a career choice her family opposed; her uncle, J. Arthur Rank, eventually relented.
• Coates worked as a nurse before she was able to enter the film industry, a career choice her family opposed; her uncle, J. Arthur Rank, eventually relented.
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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
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• Coates worked as a nurse before she was able to enter the film industry, a career choice her family opposed; her uncle, J. Arthur Rank, eventually relented." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Anne V. Coates
Anne Voase Coates OBE (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 (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Coates was nominated on four other occasions for the Oscar, the other motion pictures being Becket (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 per cent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 per cent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a leading film editor. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
About Anne V. Coates
Anne Voase Coates OBE (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 (1962), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Coates was nominated on four other occasions for the Oscar, the other motion pictures being Becket (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 per cent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 per cent of the films had absolutely no women on their editing teams at all, Coates thrived as a leading film editor. She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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