Phillip Noyce

Biography

Born 04/29/1950

Leading Australian filmmaker turned mainstream Hollywood director, Noyce began making short films and documentaries in the late 1960s and gained attention when he won the Australian Film Industry (AFI) award for best short film. He directed documentary short subjects for Film Australia while...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2002, received National Board of Review Award for Best Director
In 1978, received Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film
In 1978, received Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Screenplay

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Highlights

In 2006, Directed Tim Robbins and Derek Luke in "Catch a Fire," which is a true story set in the early 1980s in apartheid-era South Africa
In 2002, Directed "Rabbit-Proof Fence," a true story of Australian Aboriginal girls set in the 1930s
In 2002, Directed film adaptation of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American," starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser

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