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Megan Ellison

Highest Rated: 99% Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Lowest Rated: 3% Passion Play (2010)

Birthday: Jan 31, 1986

Birthplace: Santa Clara County, California, USA

Megan Ellison was one of the most high-profile of a new generation of Hollywood producers, whose stock-in-trade was intelligent drama created by and starring some of Hollywood's most respected names. The daughter of Oracle Corporation CEO Larry Ellison, one of the richest men in America, she built an impressive track record of films which did well during awards season, with director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), Spike Jonze's "Her" (2013) and David O. Russell's "American Hustle" (2013) gathering her three Best Motion Picture of the Year co-nominations at the Academy Awards within the space of two years. In 2014 she became only the fourth person in the Oscars' history to be nominated for two such awards in the same year. Born and raised in California, Ellison had one brother, David, who also became a successful Hollywood producer. She studied film at the University of Southern California for a year and made her first foray into film production in 2006 when she offered to fund the next project of "Loving Annabelle" writer and director Katherine Brooks. Funded by her father, "Waking Madison" (2010) was produced on a budget of 2 million dollars, the first in a trio of low-budget, low-profile films she would be involved with before her first critical and commercial success with the Coen Brothers' remake of the classic western "True Grit" (2010). Her first real success came following the founding of her own Annapurna Pictures company, with Paul Thomas Anderson's controversial religious drama "The Master" (2012) and Bigelow's fact-based hunt for Osama Bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) among its earliest releases.

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Highest rated movies

99% 79% Dick Johnson Is Dead Watchlist 96% 77% Booksmart Watchlist 95% 68% If Beale Street Could Talk Watchlist
95% 82% Her
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95% 85% True Grit Watchlist
92% 74% American Hustle
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92% 90% Nimona Watchlist 91% 80% Zero Dark Thirty Watchlist 91% 70% Phantom Thread Watchlist 90% 47% Kajillionaire Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
65% No Score Yet Nightbitch Producer - 2024
72% 50% Landscape with Invisible Hand Executive Producer $190.2K 2023
92% 90% Nimona Executive Producer - 2023
88% 91% She Said Executive Producer $5.8M 2022
62% 83% House of Gucci Executive Producer $53.8M 2021
99% 79% Dick Johnson Is Dead Executive Producer - 2020
90% 47% Kajillionaire Executive Producer $524.0K 2020
68% 84% Bombshell Executive Producer $31.7M 2019
47% 14% Wounds Executive Producer - 2019
88% 65% Hustlers Executive Producer $105.0M 2019
50% 74% Where'd You Go, Bernadette Executive Producer $9.2M 2019
96% 77% Booksmart Producer $22.7M 2019
95% 68% If Beale Street Could Talk Executive Producer $14.9M 2018
64% 61% Vice Producer $47.8M 2018
89% 78% The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Producer - 2018
91% 70% Phantom Thread Producer $20.9M 2017
47% 25% Downsizing Producer $24.4M 2017
82% 79% Detroit Producer $16.8M 2017
45% 30% The Bad Batch Executive Producer $180.9K 2016
88% 74% 20th Century Women Producer $5.7M 2016
82% 50% Sausage Party Producer $97.7M 2016
74% 41% Wiener-Dog Producer $445.4K 2016
87% 68% Everybody Wants Some!! Producer $3.4M 2016
61% 57% Joy Producer $56.4M 2015
26% 52% Terminator Genisys Executive Producer $89.8M 2015
88% 66% Foxcatcher Producer $12.1M 2014
95% 82% Her Producer $25.6M 2013
92% 74% American Hustle Producer $150.1M 2013
78% 59% The Grandmaster Executive Producer $6.6M 2013
68% 38% Spring Breakers Executive Producer $14.1M 2012
91% 80% Zero Dark Thirty Producer $95.7M 2012
74% 45% Killing Them Softly Executive Producer $14.9M 2012
85% 62% The Master Producer $16.2M 2012
67% 74% Lawless Producer $37.3M 2012
No Score Yet 14% Catch .44 Producer - 2011
No Score Yet 43% Waking Madison Producer - 2010
13% 11% Main Street Producer $1.6K 2010
3% 17% Passion Play Producer - 2010
95% 85% True Grit Executive Producer $171.0M 2010

TV

Credit
46% 47% Sausage Party: Foodtopia Executive Producer 2024
69% 41% The Changeling Executive Producer 2023
76% 68% Paul T. Goldman Executive Producer 2023
81% 87% I Love That for You Executive Producer 2022
78% 67% Pam & Tommy Executive Producer 2022
87% 72% The Plot Against America Executive Producer 2020