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William Condon Wiki Biography
William “Bill” Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls and the two final installments of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter with Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award. He was also nominated for writing Chicago in 2003. In 2006, Condon won a Golden Globe for his film Dreamgirls, which he also wrote. In 2013, however, he also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for his work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Condon’s films have usually been commercial successes.
| Full Name | Bill Condon |
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Date Of Birth | October 22, 1955 |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) |
| Profession | Director, Writer, Producer |
| Education | Regis High School, Columbia University |
| Nationality | American |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174374 |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, GLAAD Media Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Satellite Award for Best Director, Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Edgar Awards for Best Television Featu… |
| Nominations | Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature… |
| Movies | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Holmes, Dreamgirls, The Fifth Estate, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Chicago, Strange Behavior, Murder 101, Dead in the Water, Strange Invaders, Sister, Si… |
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| 1 | [on Julian Assange, the central character in his film ‘The Fifth Estate’] He’s clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a portrait it is. Nobody set out to make some kind of hit job. We want to understand what makes him tick. I came to admire him in many ways. |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde led to two things-a love of movies at a fortunate moment when movies were really interesting, and also a love of writing about movies, because Bonnie and Clyde was written about so much. And that’s what kind of ultimately pointed me in the direction of making movies as opposed to theater. |
| 3 | Musicals are all about transitions. How you get in and out of numbers is more important than what happens inside of them. |
| 4 | Dr. Kinsey was a scientist who tried to categorize everyone and then used that process to prove that everyone was different. That’s a wonderful contradiction. In trying to separate sex from everything that is imposed on it by culture, religion, and society, he also, like an artist, tried to work out very deep conflicts within himself |
| 5 | There’s something very constraining about the labels gay and straight, as there is with any label used in identity politics. |
| 6 | The idea of bisexuality, that everyone is somewhere along that sliding scale, is incredibly threatening today. Even politicians, who can hide behind the idea of a gay identity, don’t know what to do with the idea that everyone is something in the middle. |
| 7 | Politics do affect the Academy. The producers of Life Is Beautiful (1997) had the support of a much bigger studio machine and at the same time Benigni would host private dinners: Elizabeth Taylor, come and meet Roberto Benigni… you know. And the studio throws a lot of money around promoting him. That sounds like sour grapes, but it’s not. It’s just the way it is. |
| 8 | “You can imagine that a story that is so much about sex could be much more confrontational. What I wanted to do was create something that was more gentle and done in a classical Hollywood style, which would be true to the period in which it’s taking place. You get pretty pictures of Midwestern life in the ’30s and ’40s, and then, suddenly, there’s a clinical close-up of a vagina and a penis — which are images you’re not used to seeing in that context” [on Kinsey (2004)]. |
| 9 | He’s somebody who’s socially maladroit, he’s obsessive, he’s a scientist, he’s clinical, he’s shut off in so many ways. Kinsey as the center of a movie was a big question mark. |
| 10 | We were just very surprised and delighted to get the call from (the ratings board) saying that they’d had a long discussion and decided that they’d learned a lot from the screening [of Kinsey (2004)]. |
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| 1 | Directed 5 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Lynn Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. Hudson won for Dreamgirls (2006). |
| 2 | First film-related job was working for a year in the publicity department at Avco Embassy. |
| 3 | After graduating from Regis High School, an all-male Jesuit school in Manhattan, he studied philosophy at Columbia University. |
| 4 | His mother attended high school with Susan Hayward. |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty and the Beast | 2017 | completed | |
| Mr. Holmes | 2015 | ||
| The Fifth Estate | 2013 | ||
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | 2012 | ||
| Tilda | 2011 | TV Movie | |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | 2011 | ||
| The Big C | 2010 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Dreamgirls | 2006 | ||
| Kinsey | 2004 | ||
| The Others | 2000 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Gods and Monsters | 1998 | ||
| Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh | 1995 | ||
| The Man Who Wouldn’t Die | 1994 | TV Movie | |
| Deadly Relations | 1993 | TV Movie | |
| Dead in the Water | 1991 | TV Movie | |
| White Lie | 1991 | TV Movie | |
| Murder 101 | 1991 | TV Movie | |
| Sister, Sister | 1987 |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Greatest Showman | 2017 | screenplay filming | |
| Beauty and the Beast | 2017 | screenplay by completed | |
| Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? | announced | ||
| Tilda | 2011 | TV Movie screenplay | |
| The 81st Annual Academy Awards | 2009 | TV Special written by | |
| Dreamgirls | 2006 | screenplay | |
| Kinsey | 2004 | written by | |
| Shortcut to Happiness | 2003 | screenplay | |
| Chicago | 2002 | screenplay | |
| Gods and Monsters | 1998 | screenplay | |
| F/X2 | 1991 | written by | |
| Murder 101 | 1991 | TV Movie written by | |
| Sister, Sister | 1987 | written by | |
| Strange Invaders | 1983 | screenplay – as William Condon / story – as William Condon | |
| Strange Behavior | 1981 |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Farnsworth House | executive producer pre-production | ||
| Tilda | 2011 | TV Movie executive producer | |
| Making the Boys | 2011 | Documentary executive producer | |
| The Big C | 2010 | TV Series executive producer – 1 episode | |
| The 81st Annual Academy Awards | 2009 | TV Special producer | |
| The Man Who Wouldn’t Die | 1994 | TV Movie co-executive producer | |
| Strange Behavior | 1981 | associate producer |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sister, Sister | 1987 | Priest (uncredited) | |
| Strange Invaders | 1983 | National Informer man in doorway (uncredited) | |
| Strange Behavior | 1981 | Bryan Morgan |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up Jumped a Swagman | 1965 | electrician – uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| House of Harrington | 2008 | Documentary short special thanks | |
| Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | 2005 | special thanks | |
| The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film | 2005 | Video documentary special thanks | |
| Imaginary Heroes | 2004 | thanks | |
| Clive Barker: Raising Hell | 2004 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos | 2004 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | 2002 | Video documentary special thanks | |
| Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! | 2000 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Chuck & Buck | 2000 | special thanks | |
| The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale | 1999 | Video documentary short acknowledgment |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| HBO First Look | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
| 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards | 2005 | Video | Himself – Winner International Film ‘Kinsey’ |
| The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards | 2005 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | 2002 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! | 2000 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Hellraiser: Resurrection | 2000 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Sonic Cinema | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| She’s Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein | 1999 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale | 1999 | Video documentary short | Himself – Writer and Director (“Gods and Monsters”) |
| The 71st Annual Academy Awards | 1999 | TV Special | Himself – Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Take Two: The Rebirth of ‘Side Show’ | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Made in Hollywood | 2011-2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| 2012 MTV Video Music Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Digital Picture | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1980s, 1990s and 2000s | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1960’s | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1970’s | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Film ’72 | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Shootout | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 12th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Himself |
| Up Close with Carrie Keagan | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Razzie Award | Razzie Awards | Worst Director | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) |
| 2008 | Filmmaker Award | Cinema Audio Society, USA | ||
| 2007 | Outfest Achievement Award | L.A. Outfest | ||
| 2007 | Montecito Award | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Dreamgirls (2006) | |
| 2006 | AAFCA Award | African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2006 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2005 | DGGB Award | Directors Guild of Great Britain | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | Stephen F. Kolzak Award | GLAAD Media Awards | ||
| 2003 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Motion Picture | Chicago (2002) |
| 1999 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | Bram Stoker Award | Bram Stoker Awards | Screenplay | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1998 | Audience Choice Award | Chicago International Film Festival | Best Feature | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1998 | Critics Award | Deauville Film Festival | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1998 | FIPRESCI Prize | Ghent International Film Festival | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1998 | Audience Award | Ghent International Film Festival | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1998 | Silver Seashell | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Special Prize of the Jury | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1998 | Golden Space Needle Award | Seattle International Film Festival | Best Director | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1992 | Edgar | Edgar Allan Poe Awards | Best Television Feature or Miniseries | Murder 101 (1991) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Audience Choice Award | Chicago International Film Festival | The Fifth Estate (2013) | |
| 2012 | Razzie Award | Razzie Awards | Worst Director | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) |
| 2009 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Programs | The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) |
| 2009 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special | The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) |
| 2007 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2007 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2007 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2007 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2007 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2006 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Picture | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2006 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2006 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | Dreamgirls (2006) |
| 2005 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Writer | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Screenplay | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2005 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Original Screenplay | Kinsey (2004) |
| 2003 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Adapted Screenplay | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura) | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | Golden Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Chicago (2002) |
| 2003 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | Chicago (2002) |
| 2002 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Chicago (2002) |
| 1999 | British Independent Film Award | British Independent Film Awards | Best Director | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Director | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1999 | USC Scripter Award | USC Scripter Award | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1999 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
| 1998 | Grand Special Prize | Deauville Film Festival | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1998 | Golden Seashell | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Gods and Monsters (1998) | |
| 1993 | CableACE | CableACE Awards | Movie or Miniseries | White Lie (1991) |
| 1984 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Writing | Strange Invaders (1983) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Kinsey (2004) |
| 1998 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Gods and Monsters (1998) |
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