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In 1980 Bruce Beresford was nominated for an Academy® Award for his screenplay "Breaker Morant." The film was also selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won eleven Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay.
In 1990 "Driving Miss Daisy," directed by Beresford, won four Academy® Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy. The film was also selected as Best Film by the National Board of Review.
Bruce Beresford was born in Australia and graduated from Sydney University in 1962. He served as a Film Advisor to the Arts Council of Great Britain.
In 1975 his third film, "Don's Party," won Beresford the Best Director Award from the Australian Film Institute. His next film "The Getting of Wisdom" was selected for Director's Fortnight at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1982, Beresford received his second Academy® Award nomination, as Best Director for "Tender Mercies" starring Robert Duvall. The film won Academy® Awards for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. It was also selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. "The Fringe Dwellers" (1986) for which Beresford also wrote the screenplay, was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Best Screenplay (Adaptation).
In 1987 Beresford's "Crimes of the Heart" was nominated for three Academy® Awards. The film starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shephard. In 1990, Beresford directed "Mister Johnson" the first feature to be shot entirely in Nigeria. The film starred Pierce Brosnan and Edward Woodward and was selected as that year's Royal Command Performance Film. That was followed by "Black Robe" which won six Canadian Academy Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
Beresford directed "Double Jeopardy", starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones; "Paradise Road", starring Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett; and "Last Dance" starring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Peter Gallagher, Randy Quaid and Jack Thompson. Other feature credits include "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie"; "Money Movers"; "The Club"; "Puberty Blues"; "Rich In Love"; and "Silent Fall."
Most recently "Bride of the Wind" was released in US by Paramount Classics in June, 2001, starring Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez; and "Evelyn" will be released in US this December, 2002, starring Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, and Michael Gambon.
Beresford has also directed several operas including "Girl of the Golden West" (Puccini), for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston (USA) and Spoleto (Italy) and "Elektra" (Strauss), which was staged for the State Opera Company of South Australia. In January 1996 he directed Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" for Portland Opera (USA). In early 1999 the Washington Opera (USA) presented "The Crucible" (Ward) directed by Beresford. In 2000 he directed "Rigoletto" (Verdi) for the Los Angeles Opera and the world premier of "Cold Sassy Tree"(Floyd) at Houston Grand Opera.
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