Jocelyn Moorhouse

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Jocelyn Moorhouse at the premiere of The Dressmaker

Jocelyn Moorhouse (born September 4, 1960 in Melbourne , Victoria ) is an award-winning Australian film director , film producer and screenwriter who has directed several well-known cinema films, including Proof - The Proof , An American Quilt , A Thousand Morning and The Dressmaker .

life and career

Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse was born in Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria in 1960 as the daughter of John Henry Murray and Denise Patricia Moorhouse. At the age of 23, she graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney , where she also met her future husband PJ. Moorhouse began her career as a director and screenwriter during the 1980s with the two short films Pavane (1983) and The Siege of Barton's Bathroom (1986).

In 1991 she staged a successful film drama with the cinema production Proof - The Proof of Love and Seeing . The focus of the story is a blind photographer, his friend who describes the world to him, and a young woman. The film with Hugo Weaving , Russell Crowe and Geneviève Picot in the leading roles received numerous international awards, including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film in 1991 , prizes in four other AFI categories, and the British Film Institute Award 1992, as well as numerous festival prizes, including for Jocelyn Moorhouse's directorial work at the Cannes International Film Festival , the Chicago International Film Festival , the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival .

In 1995 she directed the American drama An American Quilt with Winona Ryder , Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft in the leading roles. The film received several nominations in 1996, including a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the Outstanding Performance by a Cast category . In 1997, Jocelyn Moorhouse filmed the drama A Thousand Mornings with Michelle Pfeiffer , Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the novel by the American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley . The film received, among other things, a Golden Globe Award nomination for actress Jessica Lange in 1998 .

In 2002 she wrote the screenplay for the PJ Hogan musical comedy Who Killed Victor Fox? starring Kathy Bates , Rupert Everett and Meredith Eaton , which she also produced. Already in 1994 she appeared as a producer in the internationally award-winning comedy Muriels Hochzeit by PJ Hogan.

In the fall of 2014, shooting began on her latest film, the theatrical production The Dressmaker , based on a novel by Rosalie Ham with Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth in the lead roles. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 .

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Jocelyn Moorhouse is married to the Australian director and screenwriter PJ Hogan (Paul John Hogan), with whom she realized several joint film projects, the two have a daughter together.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1983: Pavane (short film)
  • 1986: The Siege of Barton's Bathroom (short film)
  • 1991: Proof - The Proof
  • 1995: An American Quilt (How to Make an American Quilt)
  • 1997: A Thousand Acres (A Thousand Acres)
  • 2015: The Dressmaker
  • 2018: Wanted (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2019: Les Norton (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 2020: Stateless (TV series, 3 episodes)

script

  • 1983: Pavane
  • 1988: The Bartons (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1990–1991: The Flying Doctors (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1991: Proof - The Proof
  • 2002: Who Killed Victor Fox? (Unconditional love)
  • 2015: The Dressmaker

production

literature

  • Jocelyn Moorhouse. Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman: After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007. , MUP, 2009, p. 39.

Web links

Commons : Jocelyn Moorhouse  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jocelyn Moorhouse. Best Director - 1991 Australian Film Institute Awards: Awards in: The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Jocelyn Moorhouse. AFTRS: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Graduate Diploma, 1983.
  3. ↑ Jocelyn Moorhouse. Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker.
  4. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
personal data
SURNAME Moorhouse, Jocelyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moorhouse, Jocelyn Denise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria , Australia