Stephan Elliott
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Stephan Elliott (born 27 August 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994).
Career
Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the Australian film industry in the 1980s.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
His first two feature films, Frauds (starring musician Phil Collins) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, along with his shorter films Fast and The Agreement were produced by Rebel Penfold-Russell's Australian production company Latent Image Productions.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Frauds, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop were all officially selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, with "Priscilla" winning the Prix du public as well as an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 2004 Elliott had a skiing accident and was hospitalised for several months. He said the accident caused him to rediscover his sense of humour.[1]
His film Easy Virtue, co-written with Sheridan Jobbins, is based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. It stars Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes and was produced by Barnaby Thompson for Ealing Studios in the UK, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008.[2] It has also screened in the Rio Film Festival, Rome Film Festival and London Film Festival.[3]
His next film, A Few Best Men starring Xavier Samuel and Olivia Newton-John[4] was released in 2012.
He also wrote the script for the stage play of Priscilla, which premiered in 2007 at Sydney's Lyric Theatre in Star City.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Personal life
Elliott came out as gay during his presentation at the inaugural AACTA Awards in Sydney on 31 January 2012.[5] He has been in a relationship with his partner, Wil Bevolley, since the late 1980s. They had a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2008.[6][7]
Filmography
- Frauds (1993)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
- Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
- Eye of the Beholder (1999)
- Easy Virtue (2008)
- A Few Best Men (2011)
- Rio, I Love You (2014)
- Swinging Safari (2017)
References
External links
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- Unofficial fansite
- Official website for 'Priscilla' the stage musical
- Toronto Film Festival review of Easy Virtue
- Compiled news articles about Stephan Elliott
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- Australian film directors
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- Australian LGBTQ film directors
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- Living people
- Film directors from Sydney
- People educated at Sydney Grammar School