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), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), and Ladies in Black (2018). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Beresford has received more than 657,489 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 31 in 2019). Bruce Beresford is the 687th most popular film director (up from 700th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Australia (down from 106th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Australian Film Director.

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  • 30

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  • 3.75

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  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bruce Beresford ranks 687 out of 2,041. Before him are Terence Davies, Paul Mazursky, Aaron Russo, Alejandro Amenábar, Gérard Krawczyk, and Harun Farocki. After him are Aleksei Yuryevich German, Richard Oswald, Claude Pinoteau, John Stagliano, Bruno Mattei, and Timur Bekmambetov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bruce Beresford ranks 247. Before him are Jan Eliasson, John Mahoney, Helmut Jahn, Samuel Little, Lill Lindfors, and Don Nelson. After him are Peter C. Doherty, Michel Micombero, Andrey Piontkovsky, Margit Carstensen, Valie Export, and José Nápoles.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Bruce Beresford ranks 114 out of 1,143. Before him are Natalie Imbruglia (1975), Samuel Alexander (1859), Peter Norman (1942), John Pilger (1939), Elle Macpherson (1964), and Baz Luhrmann (1962). After him are Peter C. Doherty (1940), Ron Mueck (1958), Kevin Rudd (1957), Bill Mollison (1928), Ken McGregor (1929), and Tony Roche (1945).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, Bruce Beresford ranks 7. Before him are Peter Weir (1944), George Miller (1945), Roger Donaldson (1945), Christopher Doyle (1952), John Pilger (1939), and Baz Luhrmann (1962). After him are John Farrow (1904), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), and Leigh Whannell (1977).

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