FILM DIRECTOR

Bruce Beresford

1940 - Today

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Bruce Beresford (; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations Beresford's films include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – which won four Oscars including Best Picture, Black Robe (1991), Silent Fall (1994), Double Jeopardy (1999), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), and Ladies in Black (2018). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Breaker Morant, and Best Director for Tender Mercies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Beresford is the 733rd most popular film director (down from 687th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Australia (down from 114th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Australian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bruce Beresford ranks 733 out of 2,041. Before him are Dariush Mehrjui, Herbert Selpin, Luigi Zampa, Hal Roach, W. S. Van Dyke, and Aleksei Yuryevich German. After him are Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bryan Singer, James Wan, Gavin O'Connor, Jaromil Jireš, and B. R. Chopra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bruce Beresford ranks 276. Before him are Yozhef Sabo, Chip Taylor, Brigitte Hamann, Lainie Kazan, Peter Atkins, and Imre Komora. After him are Mario Zanin, Tony Allen, Margit Carstensen, Luis María Echeberría, Georgi Ivanov, and Mark White.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Bruce Beresford ranks 144 out of 1,143. Before him are John Curtin (1885), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Graham Arnold (1963), Peter Norman (1942), Lionel Cox (1930), and Colin Burgess (1946). After him are Raewyn Connell (1944), Natalie Imbruglia (1975), Travis Fimmel (1979), Tim Schenken (1943), Phillip Noyce (1950), and Richard Roxburgh (1962).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, Bruce Beresford ranks 8. Before him are Peter Weir (1944), Roger Donaldson (1945), Baz Luhrmann (1962), John Farrow (1904), Christopher Doyle (1952), and Russell Mulcahy (1953). After him are Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), John Pilger (1939), Gillian Armstrong (1950), and Leigh Whannell (1977).

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