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Bill Condon - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Bill Condon - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Writer, Producer, Actor.
Born October 22, 1955, New York is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
began his screenwriting career as a screenwriter for low budget films such as Strange Behavior (1981) and Strange Aliens (1983). His directorial debut was Sister, Sister (1987), a gothic mystery movie starring Eric Stolz and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Condon subsequently directed several TV thrillers, including Murder No. 101 (1990), in which Pierce Brosnan played. During this period he also wrote the screenplay for the thriller F / X2 (1991), directed by Richard Franklin.
After filming Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), which became an imitation of the horror film by Bernard Rose, Bill Condon becomes famous. He earned even greater fame with his next film "Gods and Monsters", which he not only directed, but also wrote a script for it. The script for this film was based on a story written by Christopher Brum. For this picture, he received the academic prize "For the best film adaptation." He was also nominated for this prize for the 2002 Academy Award-winning film Chicago, the adaptation of the musical Chicago. In 2004, he wrote and directed the film Kinsey, a documentary about the life and work of a controversial personality - one of the earliest explorers of human sexuality, Alfred Kinsey. The film shot 35 days and spanned Kinsey's 15-year exploration.
In 2005, his work was awarded the Stephen F. Kolzak Prize from GLAAD. This prize is "awarded to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the media industry for their outstanding contribution to the fight against homophobia."
In 2005, Bill Condon announced plans to write and direct a film based on the acclaimed Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which depicts the career of The Supremes. This was his second adaptation of the musical. Dreamgirls, starring Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose and Danny Glover, was released in December 2006. The film was a hit with critics and audiences, and was awarded two Oscars, a Grammy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globes, including Best Film of the Year. Condon himself shared the Sputnik Award for Best Director with Clint Eastwood.
In 2009-2010, Condon has been working on television projects - he is the screenwriter of the 81st Academy Awards and directs the pilot episode of the series "That Scary R".
The director then receives an invitation to direct the final films of The Twilight Saga, the first of which came out in 2011 and the second in 2012.
