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Phillip Noyce - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born April 29, 1950, Griffith, New South Wales, Australia - Australian actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, cameraman, editor.
When he was 12 years old, the family moved to Sydney. At the age of 18, he directed his first short film, Better to Reign in Hell. He entered the University of Sydney twice, first at the Faculty of Law, then at the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1973, Noyce entered the Australian National Film, Television and Radio School, which opened the same year. Here he directed the 50-minute documentary Castor and Pollux (1974), which won the Ruben Mamoulian Prize at the Sydney Film Festival for Best Short Film in Australia.
In 1975, Noyce directed his first professional film, the 50-minute documentary God Knows Why, But It Works. The first feature film was the road movie Backroads, starring the famous Australian actor Bill Hunter, who also starred in two other Noyce films. A major success was the next film, Newsfront (1978), which won the Australian Film and Television Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, which also opened the London Film Festival and participated in New York Film Festival
The international success of the Australian film Dead Calm, starring Nicole Kidman, brought Phillip Noyce to Hollywood, where he made 6 films in the 90s, including two political thrillers with Harrison Ford, Games of the Patriots and Direct and Explicit threat ", as well as the erotic thriller" Sliver ", which became the most disastrous in his career - for it Noyce was nominated for the anti-award" Golden Raspberry "as the worst director.
In 2002, Noyce returned to Australia, where he directed the film The Rabbit Cage, and the same year the film The Quiet American was released. Both films were a great success and brought the author several awards (Rotten Tomatoes ratings 88% and 87%, respectively).
The biggest box office hit was the 2010 spy thriller Salt, which grossed $ 295 million at the box office.
Noyce has also contributed to the creation of Australian and American TV series.
