Jill Bilcock

Jill Bilcock
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Jill Bilcock AC
Born	Jillian Stevenson; 1948 (age 75–76); Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Film editor

Jill Elizabeth Bilcock AC (born 1948) is an Australian film editor, a member of the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) guild, as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE) society,^[1] and has edited films such as Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and Road to Perdition. She occasionally gives seminars at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, of which she is an alumna.^[2]

Bilcock was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a graduate of the Swinburne College of Technology.^[3] She won the 2002 Eddie Award (best edited comedy or musical feature film) for Moulin Rouge!, for which she also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. She has been nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Three of these nominations were for the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002). The fourth BAFTA nomination was for Elizabeth (1998), directed by Shekhar Kapur.

The documentaries Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing for ABC TV^[4]^[5] and the cinema-released Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible,^[6]^[7] both in 2017, explore her life and work.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1984	Strikebound	Richard Lowenstein	Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing
1986	The More Things Change...	Robyn Nevin
1986	Dogs in Space	Richard Lowenstein
1987	Australian Made: The Movie	Richard Lowenstein
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
1993	Temptation of a Monk	Clara Law
1994	Erotique	Clara Law	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 Luhrmann	Nominated—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
1998	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
2009	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. Hogan	Nominated—ASE Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film
2014	Arrows of the Thunder Dragon	Greg Sneddon
	Kill Me Three Times	Kriv Stenders
	My Mistress	Stephen Lance
	Driving Miss Daisy	David Esbjornson	Theatrical release of Australian stage production
2015	The Dressmaker	Jocelyn Moorhouse	Nominated—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
TBA	Paani	Shekhar Kapur

Awards and recognition

1996, Won for Best Editing from MovieMaker Readers Awards^[8]
2001 – nominated for an Oscar^[9]
2002 – Won an American Cinema Editors award^[10]
2007 – Won the International Award for Filmmaking Excellence from Australian Film Institute^[11]
2012 – Moulin Rouge! was listed as the 32nd best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.^[12]
2018 – Companion of the Order of Australia

References

^ "Members". American Cinema Editors. Archived from the original on 18 February 2008.
^ Wotherspoon, Alison (August–September 2002). "Victorian College of the Arts". Real Time magazine.
^ McGrath, Declan (2001). Editing and Post-production (Focal Press), p. 45. Swinburne is apparently misspelled as "Swinbourne" in this reference.
^ Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing, ABC TV
^ Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing at IMDb
^ Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, Screen Australia
^ Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible at IMDb
^ McEnerney, Charles (28 February 1997). "The 1996 MovieMaker Readers Awards". MovieMaker. Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
^ "Cate Blanchett chases Oscar history". The Sunday Times. 21 January 2008. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
^ Horn, John (17 February 2003). "The Week Ahead; Keep your eye on the little races". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
^ "The week in film: AFI Awards". ABC Radio National. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.