Jill Bilcock

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Jill Bilcock
AC
Born
Jill Elizabeth Stevenson

1948 (age 75–76)
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Occupation Film editor

Jill Elizabeth Bilcock AC (born 1948 as Jill Stevenson), is an Australian film editor. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002), and Elizabeth (1998). In 2007 she won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking.

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Early life and education

Jill Elizabeth [1] Stevenson, later Bilcock, [2] was born in 1948 [3] in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Her family, which included Jill and two brothers, moved to Melbourne when she was three, and her father left the family when she was four. Her mother worked full-time as a teacher at a technical school, and went to the University of Melbourne at night to complete a degree in commerce. [4] Artists, poets, and authors visited their home regularly. [5] She later said that she "didn't have a lot of parenting". [4]

She is a graduate of the Swinburne Film and Television School [6] [7] (1968 [5] ), entering its first film course at the age of 17, [8] after leaving school and enrolling at Swinburne Technical College at the age of 15, encouraged by her mother. [5] [4] She went on a student trip to China, which at the time was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, [4] and generally closed to foreigners; she became an honorary Red Guard there. [5] When Brian Robinson started the first film course at Swinburne, she jumped at it. There she met Fred Schepisi, who was one of the examiners. [4]

Career

Bilcock began her career doing commercials (there being no Australian film industry then), [4] after being invited by Fred Schepisi to work at his company, The Film House. [8] Schepisi "let [them] run wild", and allowed the students to experiment with all aspects of filmmaking. [4] She started specialising in editing, assisted by Richard Lowenstein, who had also graduated from Swinburne. [4]

In the mid-1970s, she was invited to a job in London, but, travelling via India, ended up staying in that country for a year, living a hippie-style existence in Goa and taking bit parts in local films. [5]

Her first feature film was Richard Lowenstein's Strikebound (1984). [4] During the 1980s and 1990s, she started working with filmmakers on well-known films such as Dogs in Space (directed by Lowenstein, 1987), Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1994), and Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1998). [8]

Bilcock later edited films such as Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Sam Mendes' 2002 crime drama Road to Perdition . [8]

Her editing style has been described as "boldly inventive", [8] and her editing of the Luhrmann films known for their "strikingly fast cutting, whirl of noise and colour and unconventional jumps". [4] She has said: "I want wild, I want innovative, unusual and visually extraordinary". [5] However, she changed pace on films such as Road to Perdition and The Dish . [4]

Other activities

On 3 July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia Bilcock gave an online masterclass as part of "WIFT Virtual" series, an initiative of WIFT Australia. [9]

In November 2024 she was on the jury of the International Film Festival of India, alongside Singaporean director Anthony Chen, British producer Elizabeth Karlsen, Spanish producer Fran Borgia, and Indian producer and actor Ashutosh Gowariker, who acted as chair. [10] [11]

Recognition, awards, and honours

Bilcock is a member of the Australian Screen Editors guild, [8] as well as the American Cinema Editors society, [12] which permits her to use the post-nominals ASE and ACE. [9]

The documentaries Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing for ABC TV [13] [14] and the cinema-released Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible [15] [16] (78 mins), [5] both in 2017, explore her life and work. [9] Dancing the Invisible includes commentary from Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrmann, Shekhar Kapur, Phil Noyce, Fred Schepisi, Richard Lowenstein, Jocelyn Moorhouse, Kriv Stenders, Ana Kokkinos, Sue Brooks, and Rachel Griffiths. The film was directed, written, co-produced, and edited by Axel Grigor, and executive produced by Sue Maslin. [5] The film won the Audience Award at the Adelaide Film Festival. [17]

Bilcock is highly respected in the industry, and has received several lifetime achievement awards, including the AFI Byron Kennedy Award, AFI International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, and IF Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. [5] In July 2018 Flicks film critic Glenn Dunks called Bilcock "one of Australia's greatest film practitioners. Probably the most successful film editor this country has ever produced". At that time, she had won five AFI Awards and been nominated for four more; been nominated for two AACTA Awards and four BAFTAs; and had received multiple career achievement awards. [18]

She has been awarded two official Australian honours:

Film awards and nominations include:

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorNotes
1984 Strikebound Richard Lowenstein Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
1986 The More Things Change... Robyn Nevin
Dogs in Space Richard Lowenstein
1987 Australian Made: The Movie
1988 Evil Angels Fred Schepisi Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
1990 Till There Was You John Seale
1992 Strictly Ballroom Baz Luhrmann AACTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1993 Say a Little Prayer Richard Lowenstein
Temptation of a Monk Clara Law
1994 Erotique Segment: "Wonton Soup"
Lizzie Borden Segment: "Let's Talk About Love"
Ana Maria Magalhães Segment: "Final Call"
Monika Treut Segment: "Taboo Parlor"
Muriel's Wedding P. J. Hogan Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
I.Q. Fred Schepisi
1995 How to Make an American Quilt Jocelyn Moorhouse
1996 Romeo + Juliet Baz LuhrmannNominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
1998 Head On Ana Kokkinos AACTA Award for Best Editing
Elizabeth Shekhar Kapur Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
1999 Harry's War Richard Frankland
2000 The Dish Rob Sitch
2001 Moulin Rouge! Baz Luhrmann AACTA Award for Best Editing
ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2002 Road to Perdition Sam Mendes
2003 Japanese Story Sue Brooks AACTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—FCCA Award for Best Editor
Nominated—Inside Film Award for Best Editing
2004 The Libertine Laurence Dunmore Nominated—ASE Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film
2006 Catch a Fire Phillip Noyce
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age Shekhar Kapur
2009 The Young Victoria Jean-Marc Vallée
Blessed Ana Kokkinos Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
2010 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Troy Nixey
2011 Red Dog Kriv Stenders Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—Inside Film Award for Best Editing
2012 Mental P. J. HoganNominated—ASE Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film
2014 Arrows of the Thunder Dragon Greg Sneddon
Kill Me Three Times Kriv Stenders
My MistressStephen Lance
Driving Miss Daisy David Esbjornson Theatrical release of Australian stage production
2015 The Dressmaker Jocelyn MoorhouseNominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
Nominated—FCCA Award for Best Editor
2016 Red Dog: True Blue Kriv Stenders
2019 Ride Like a Girl Rachel Griffiths

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