Gillian Armstrong
Born	Gillian May Armstrong December 18, 1950 (1950-12-18) (age 57) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gillian Armstrong (born December 18, 1950 in Melbourne, Australia) is an award-winning director of feature films and documentaries. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film.

Contents 1 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Career

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and film-making. Swinburne University of Technology is a university with a number of campuses based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. In 1972 she entered, and later graduated from, the Australian Film and Television School. Three years later she directed two shorts films: The Singer And The Dancer and Smokes and Lollies (1975).

Her feature length film My Brilliant Career (1979), an adaptation of Miles Franklin's novel of the same name, was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years. My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Golden Globe -nominated Australian Drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the Miles Franklin (born "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin" 14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer Armstrong received six awards at the 1979 Australian Film Awards, including Best Director. The Australian Film Institute Awards (often abbreviated to AFI Awards) are awards of merit presented annually by the Australian Film Institute. Following the success of My Brilliant Career, which was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Costume Design, Armstrong directed the Australian musical Starstruck (1981).

Since then, Armstrong has specialised in period drama. She achieved her greatest Hollywood success with the 1994 adaptation of Little Women, starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon, and followed with the films Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Charlotte Gray (2001). Little Women or Meg Jo Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832&ndash1888 Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29 1971 better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Tomalin; October 4 1946 is an American Actress. Oscar and Lucinda is a Novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.

Filmography

• Death Defying Acts (2008)
• Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2005)
• Charlotte Gray (2001)
• Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
• Not Fourteen Again (1996)
• Little Women (1994)
• The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
• Fires Within (1991)
• Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces (1988)
• High Tide (1987)
• Hard to Handle (1986)
• Mrs. Soffel (1984)
• Having a Go (1983)
• Starstruck (1982)
• Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better (1980)
• Touch Wood (1980)
• My Brilliant Career (1979)
• The Singer and the Dancer (1977)
• Clean Straw for Nothing (1976)
• Smokes and Lollies (1975)
• Gretel (1973)
• One Hundred a Day (1973)
• Satdee Night (1973)
• Roof Needs Mowing (1971)
• Old Man and Dog (1970)

References

• Carter, Helen (2002). Death Defying Acts is a Supernatural romantic thriller Magic consultant for the film was English magician Scott Penrose Charlotte Gray is a 2001 feature Film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks. Little Women is the 1994 film version of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women adapted by Robin Swicord The Last Days of Chez Nous is an Australian drama directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Helen Garner. Hard to Handle ( 1933) is a Comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression -era Mrs Soffel is a 1984 American film drama based on the true Buck McGovern and the Biddle Boys case of 1901 Pittsburgh, starring Diane Starstruck is a 1982 Australian comedy-drama musical film starring Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan and Margo Lee about two teenagers My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Golden Globe -nominated Australian Drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the Clean Straw for Nothing is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author George Johnston. Gillian Armstrong. Retrieved December 14, 2004.

External links

• Gillian Armstrong's Agent
• Gillian Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database
• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

Persondata
NAME	Armstrong, Gillian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Armstrong, Gillian May
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director
DATE OF BIRTH	1950-12-18
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.

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