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.
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Bill Condon
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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98% |
|
Come From Away | Producer | - | 2021 |
64% |
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The Good Liar |
Director, Producer |
$17.1M | 2019 |
57% |
|
The Greatest Showman | Screenwriter | $174.0M | 2017 |
71% |
|
Beauty and the Beast | Director | $504.0M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beauty and the Beast | Director | - | 2017 |
88% |
|
Mr. Holmes | Director | $17.7M | 2015 |
36% |
|
The Fifth Estate | Director | $3.3M | 2013 |
49% |
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 | Director | $292.3M | 2012 |
25% |
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 | Director | $281.3M | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Shortcut to Happiness | Writer | - | 2007 |
79% |
|
Dreamgirls |
Director, Writer |
$103.3M | 2006 |
90% |
|
Kinsey |
Director, Screenwriter |
$10.2M | 2004 |
86% |
|
Chicago | Screenwriter | $170.7M | 2002 |
96% |
|
Gods and Monsters |
Director, Writer |
$6.4M | 1998 |
21% |
|
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh | Director | $13.4M | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Director | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Relations | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Dead in the Water | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Murder 101 | Director | - | 1991 |
38% |
|
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% |
|
Strange Invaders | Screenwriter | - | 1983 |
80% |
|
Strange Behavior | Screenwriter | - | 1981 |