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Bill Condon

Bill Condon

Highest Rated: 98% Come From Away (2021)

Lowest Rated: 21% Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

Birthday: Oct 22, 1955

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Condon's early career demonstrated his skills in dark thrillers, mysteries and horror films, but he was far from a one-note director. After delving into more serious and personal subjects for a time, he ultimately threw everyone a curve ball by displaying his theatrical side with elaborate musical film productions. Condon received numerous accolades for either writing and/or directing heavy-hitting dramas such as "Gods and Monsters" (1998) - which earned him an Oscar for Adapted Screenplay - starring Ian McKellen as an ailing director reliving his old flamboyant life through fantasy, and the biopic "Kinsey" (2004) about the provocative real-life sex researcher. He also wrote the scripts for glittery musical spectacles like "Chicago" (2002) and "Dreamgirls" (2006), the latter of which he also directed. Five years later, the filmmaker stunned his more ardent fans by signing on to direct the concluding two chapters of the record-breaking movie franchise - "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" (2011, 2012), films that while not critically embraced, placed Condon at the upper echelon of commercially successful movie directors. Whether it was intimate art house dramas such as WikiLeaks drama "The Fifth Estate" (2013), period pieces like the Arthur Conan Doyle reimagining "Mr. Holmes" (2015), or mainstream blockbusters of the highest order such as the Emma Watson-starring "Beauty and the Beast" (2017), Condon proved himself more than capable of delivering the goods.

Filmography

Movies

Credit
98% 95% Come From Away Producer - 2021
64% 85% The Good Liar Director,
Producer
$17.1M 2019
57% 86% The Greatest Showman Screenwriter $174.0M 2017
71% 80% Beauty and the Beast Director $504.0M 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beauty and the Beast Director - 2017
88% 70% Mr. Holmes Director $17.7M 2015
36% 36% The Fifth Estate Director $3.3M 2013
49% 70% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Director $292.3M 2012
25% 60% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Director $281.3M 2011
No Score Yet 43% Shortcut to Happiness Writer - 2007
79% 71% Dreamgirls Director,
Writer
$103.3M 2006
90% 75% Kinsey Director,
Screenwriter
$10.2M 2004
86% 83% Chicago Screenwriter $170.7M 2002
96% 82% Gods and Monsters Director,
Writer
$6.4M 1998
21% 30% Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh Director $13.4M 1995
No Score Yet 44% The Man Who Wouldn't Die Director - 1995
No Score Yet 44% Deadly Relations Director - 1993
No Score Yet 10% Dead in the Water Director - 1991
No Score Yet 54% Murder 101 Director - 1991
38% 36% FX2 Screenwriter $21.0M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mentira Blanca Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Lie Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sister, Sister Director $316.4K 1988
67% 34% Strange Invaders Screenwriter - 1983
80% 45% Strange Behavior Screenwriter - 1981