Awards & Winners

John Coates

Date of Birth 07-November-1927
Place of Birth Reigate
(United Kingdom, England)
Nationality England
Also know as John Piesse Coates
Profession Television Producer, Film Producer
John Coates was a British film producer, best known for producing the animated film The Snowman based on the picture book by Raymond Briggs, one of the first animated productions screened on Channel Four and still repeated every year on the channel. He co-founded the animation studio TVC London with George Dunning in 1957 and worked on The Beatles's animated feature Yellow Submarine and produced numerous other animated films for children including When the Wind Blows, Granpa, Father Christmas, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends and The Bear. Coates died of cancer at the age of 84 in his home in Kent, England on 16 September 2012. The Snowman and The Snowdog is dedicated to his memory.

Awards by John Coates

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Coates.

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Short Animated Film Famous Fred
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More) The Willows In Winter
Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming More Than One Hour)

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny

1983


British Academy Television Award for Best Children's Programme - Fiction or Entertainment
Honored for : The Snowman

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Children's Programme - Fiction or Entertainment The Snowman

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) The Snowman