Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford 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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Defining films
Critical context
That we would see in letters five feet high His name one day spread shining in the gloom Preceded with the words ‘Directed by’ – To doubt that prospect there was never room. He had the screenplay ready in the womb. He was (he’ll know I say it without unction) By nature built for one creative function.
Films by decade
