Megan Ellison

Megan Ellison , actually Margaret Elizabeth Ellison (* 1986 in San Carlos , California ) is an American film producer .

She is the daughter of Oracle founder Larry Ellison . After studying film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts , she became a film producer like her older brother David Ellison . After her first successes with the film True Grit , she received higher funds from her father's fortune for her production company Annapurna Pictures in order to generously finance further film projects.

In 2014 , Ellison received two Oscar nominations in the “ Best Picture ” category : Together with Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay for Her and together with Richard Suckle , Charles Roven and Jonathan Gordon for the drama American Hustle . She received another Oscar nomination in 2017 together with Paul Thomas Anderson , Daniel Lupi and JoAnne Sellar for the film The Silk Thread .

Filmography (selection)

• 2010: Passion Play
• 2010: Main Street
• 2010: True Grit
• 2011: Waking Madison
• 2011: Catch .44 - The really big coup (Catch .44)
• 2012: Lawless - The outlaws (Lawless)
• 2012: Killing Them Softly
• 2012: The Master
• 2012: Spring Breakers
• 2012: Zero Dark Thirty
• 2013: American Hustle
• 2013: Her
• 2014: Foxcatcher
• 2015: Joy - Anything but Ordinary (Joy)
• 2016: Everybody Wants Some !!
• 2016: Sausage Party - It's about the sausage (Sausage Party)
• 2016: The Bad Batch
• 2016: Century Women (20th Century Women)
• 2017: Detroit
• 2017: Indian Horse
• 2017: The Silk Thread (Phantom Thread)
• 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk
• 2018: Vice - The Second Man (Vice)
• 2019: Booksmart
• 2019: Bernadette (Where'd You Go, Bernadette)

Web links

• Megan Ellison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• From independent films to blockbusters on ORF.at on January 3, 2012.
• Silicon Valley Scion Tackles Hollywood The New York Times August 29, 2011.