Bruce Beresford
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Black Robe
- There's a Fax from Bruce
- Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This...
- Best Film I Never Made
- Paradise Road
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 179
- Total plays
- 355
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,388x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,608x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,955x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,318x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,044x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-08-16 ) 16 August 1940 (age 85) , Paddington, New South Wales , Australia
- Alma mater
- University of Sydney (BA)
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter producer
- Years active
- 1970–present
- Spouse
- Virginia Duigan
via Wikipedia infobox
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Bruce Beresford (/ˈbɛrɪsfərd/; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations
Beresford's films include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – which won four Oscars including Best Picture, – Black Robe (1991), Silent Fall (1994), Double Jeopardy (1999), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), and Ladies in Black (2018). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Breaker Morant, and Best Director for Tender Mercies. He won AACTA/AFI Awards – Best Direction (2) for Don's Party (1976) and Breaker Morant, and Best Screenplay (2) for Breaker Morant and The Fringe Dwellers (1986).
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