Jill Bilcock
| Jill Bilcock | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jillian Stevenson 1948 (age 67–68) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | film editor |
Jill Bilcock (born 1948) is an Australian film editor, a member of the ASE (Australian Screen Editors), as well as the ACE (American Cinema Editors), and has edited films such as William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and Road to Perdition. She occasionally gives seminars at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, of which she is an alumna.[1]
Bilcock was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a graduate of the Swinburne College of Technology.[2] She won the 2002 Eddie Award (best edited comedy or musical feature film) for Moulin Rouge!, for which she also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing. She has been nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Three of these nominations were for the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge! - 2002, Romeo + Juliet - 1996, and Strictly Ballroom - 1992). The fourth BAFTA nomination was for Elizabeth (directed by Shekhar Kapur - 1998).
Bilcock was selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.[3]
Filmography
Awards & recognition
- 1996, Won for Best Editing from MovieMaker Readers Awards.[4]
- 2001, nominated for an Oscar.[5]
- 2002, Won an American Cinema Editors award.[6]
- 2007, Won the International Award for Filmmaking Excellence from Australian Film Institute.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Wotherspoon, Alison (August–September 2002). "Victorian College of the Arts". Real Time magazine.
- ↑ McGrath, Declan (2001). Editing and Post-production (Focal Press), p. 45. Swinburne is apparently misspelled as "Swinbourne" in this reference.
- ↑ "Members". American Cinema Editors. Archived from the original on 2008-03-04.
- ↑ McEnerney, Charles (28 February 1997). "The 1996 MovieMaker Readers Awards". MovieMaker. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
- ↑ "Cate Blanchett chases Oscar history". The Sunday Times. 21 January 2008. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ↑ Horn, John (17 February 2003). "The Week Ahead; Keep your eye on the little races". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ↑ "The week in film: AFI Awards". ABC Radio National. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
Further reading
- Cawthorne, Russell (April 1, 2004). "Bilcock, Jill - The Bogus Detector". Urban Cinefile. Reporting based on an interview with Bilcock.