Bruce Beresford

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 50year career both locally and internationally in the United States He is a twotime Academy Award nominee and a fourtime AACTAAFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations Beresfords 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 Maos 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 AACTAAFI Awards  Best Direction 2 for Dons Party 1976 and Breaker Morant and Best Screenplay 2 for Breaker Morant and The Fringe Dwellers 1986 In addition four of Beresfords films have been nominated for the Palme dOr and four have been nominated for the Golden Bear He has also been nominated for two BAFTA Awards a Golden Globe Award and a Directors Guild of America Award and won a Genie Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Beresford licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia