William Condon

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William Condon Wiki Biography

William “Bill” Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls and the two final installments of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter with Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award. He was also nominated for writing Chicago in 2003. In 2006, Condon won a Golden Globe for his film Dreamgirls, which he also wrote. In 2013, however, he also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for his work on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Condon’s films have usually been commercial successes. IMDB Wikipedia $5 million 1955 1955-10-22 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Bill Condon Net Worth Director Dreamgirls (2006) Gods and Monsters (1998) Kinsey (2004) Libra New York New York City October 22 producer The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) USA William Condon Writer

William Condon Quick Info

Full Name Bill Condon
Net Worth $5 Million
Date Of Birth October 22, 1955
Place Of Birth New York City, New York, USA
Height 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Profession Director, Writer, Producer
Education Regis High School, Columbia University
Nationality American
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0174374
Awards Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, GLAAD Media Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Satellite Award for Best Director, Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Edgar Awards for Best Television Featu…
Nominations Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature…
Movies The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Holmes, Dreamgirls, The Fifth Estate, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, Chicago, Strange Behavior, Murder 101, Dead in the Water, Strange Invaders, Sister, Si…

William Condon Quotes

  • [on Julian Assange, the central character in his film ‘The Fifth Estate’] He’s clever. He conflates anything that might be critical of him as an attack on WikiLeaks. But he may be surprised at how even-handed a portrait it is. Nobody set out to make some kind of hit job. We want to understand what makes him tick. I came to admire him in many ways.
  • Bonnie and Clyde led to two things-a love of movies at a fortunate moment when movies were really interesting, and also a love of writing about movies, because Bonnie and Clyde was written about so much. And that’s what kind of ultimately pointed me in the direction of making movies as opposed to theater.
  • Musicals are all about transitions. How you get in and out of numbers is more important than what happens inside of them.
  • Dr. Kinsey was a scientist who tried to categorize everyone and then used that process to prove that everyone was different. That’s a wonderful contradiction. In trying to separate sex from everything that is imposed on it by culture, religion, and society, he also, like an artist, tried to work out very deep conflicts within himself
  • There’s something very constraining about the labels gay and straight, as there is with any label used in identity politics.
  • The idea of bisexuality, that everyone is somewhere along that sliding scale, is incredibly threatening today. Even politicians, who can hide behind the idea of a gay identity, don’t know what to do with the idea that everyone is something in the middle.
  • Politics do affect the Academy. The producers of Life Is Beautiful (1997) had the support of a much bigger studio machine and at the same time Benigni would host private dinners: Elizabeth Taylor, come and meet Roberto Benigni… you know. And the studio throws a lot of money around promoting him. That sounds like sour grapes, but it’s not. It’s just the way it is.
  • “You can imagine that a story that is so much about sex could be much more confrontational. What I wanted to do was create something that was more gentle and done in a classical Hollywood style, which would be true to the period in which it’s taking place. You get pretty pictures of Midwestern life in the ’30s and ’40s, and then, suddenly, there’s a clinical close-up of a vagina and a penis — which are images you’re not used to seeing in that context” [on Kinsey (2004)].
  • He’s somebody who’s socially maladroit, he’s obsessive, he’s a scientist, he’s clinical, he’s shut off in so many ways. Kinsey as the center of a movie was a big question mark.
  • We were just very surprised and delighted to get the call from (the ratings board) saying that they’d had a long discussion and decided that they’d learned a lot from the screening [of Kinsey (2004)].

William Condon Important Facts

  • Directed 5 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Lynn Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. Hudson won for Dreamgirls (2006).
  • First film-related job was working for a year in the publicity department at Avco Embassy.
  • After graduating from Regis High School, an all-male Jesuit school in Manhattan, he studied philosophy at Columbia University.
  • His mother attended high school with Susan Hayward.

William Condon Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Beauty and the Beast 2017 completed Director
Mr. Holmes 2015 Director
The Fifth Estate 2013 Director
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 2012 Director
Tilda 2011 TV Movie Director
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 2011 Director
The Big C 2010 TV Series 1 episode Director
Dreamgirls 2006 Director
Kinsey 2004 Director
The Others 2000 TV Series 1 episode Director
Gods and Monsters 1998 Director
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh 1995 Director
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die 1994 TV Movie Director
Deadly Relations 1993 TV Movie Director
Dead in the Water 1991 TV Movie Director
White Lie 1991 TV Movie Director
Murder 101 1991 TV Movie Director
Sister, Sister 1987 Director
The Greatest Showman 2017 screenplay filming Writer
Beauty and the Beast 2017 screenplay by completed Writer
Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? announced Writer
Tilda 2011 TV Movie screenplay Writer
The 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 TV Special written by Writer
Dreamgirls 2006 screenplay Writer
Kinsey 2004 written by Writer
Shortcut to Happiness 2003 screenplay Writer
Chicago 2002 screenplay Writer
Gods and Monsters 1998 screenplay Writer
F/X2 1991 written by Writer
Murder 101 1991 TV Movie written by Writer
Sister, Sister 1987 written by Writer
Strange Invaders 1983 screenplay – as William Condon / story – as William Condon Writer
Strange Behavior 1981 Writer
The Farnsworth House executive producer pre-production Producer
Tilda 2011 TV Movie executive producer Producer
Making the Boys 2011 Documentary executive producer Producer
The Big C 2010 TV Series executive producer – 1 episode Producer
The 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 TV Special producer Producer
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die 1994 TV Movie co-executive producer Producer
Strange Behavior 1981 associate producer Producer
Sister, Sister 1987 Priest (uncredited) Actor
Strange Invaders 1983 National Informer man in doorway (uncredited) Actor
Strange Behavior 1981 Bryan Morgan Actor
Up Jumped a Swagman 1965 electrician – uncredited Camera Department
House of Harrington 2008 Documentary short special thanks Thanks
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont 2005 special thanks Thanks
The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film 2005 Video documentary special thanks Thanks
Imaginary Heroes 2004 thanks Thanks
Clive Barker: Raising Hell 2004 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos 2004 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster 2002 Video documentary special thanks Thanks
Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! 2000 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
Chuck & Buck 2000 special thanks Thanks
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale 1999 Video documentary short acknowledgment Thanks
HBO First Look 2006 TV Series documentary Himself Self
16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards 2005 TV Special Himself Self
The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film 2005 Video documentary Himself Self
2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards 2005 Video Himself – Winner International Film ‘Kinsey’ Self
The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards 2005 TV Special documentary Himself Self
From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster 2002 Video documentary Himself Self
Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! 2000 Video documentary short Himself Self
Hellraiser: Resurrection 2000 Video documentary short Himself Self
Sonic Cinema 2000 TV Series Himself Self
She’s Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein 1999 Documentary short Himself Self
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale 1999 Video documentary short Himself – Writer and Director (“Gods and Monsters”) Self
The 71st Annual Academy Awards 1999 TV Special Himself – Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay Self
Take Two: The Rebirth of ‘Side Show’ 2014 TV Series Himself Self
Made in Hollywood 2011-2012 TV Series Himself Self
2012 MTV Video Music Awards 2012 TV Special Himself Self
The Digital Picture 2012 TV Series Himself Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1980s, 1990s and 2000s 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1960’s 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1970’s 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History – The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical 2009 Video documentary Himself Self
Entertainment Tonight 2009 TV Series Himself Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History 2008 Video documentary Himself Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure 2008 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Film ’72 2007 TV Series Himself Self
Shootout 2007 TV Series Himself Self
The 12th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards 2007 TV Special Himself Self
Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2007 TV Series Himself Self
Pop Culture Beast’s Halloween Horror Picks 2014 TV Series documentary Bryan Morgan Archive Footage

William Condon Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2013 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Director The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Won
2008 Filmmaker Award Cinema Audio Society, USA Won
2007 Outfest Achievement Award L.A. Outfest Won
2007 Montecito Award Santa Barbara International Film Festival Dreamgirls (2006) Won
2006 AAFCA Award African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Best Director Dreamgirls (2006) Won
2006 Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Director Dreamgirls (2006) Won
2005 DGGB Award Directors Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film Kinsey (2004) Won
2005 Stephen F. Kolzak Award GLAAD Media Awards Won
2003 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Motion Picture Chicago (2002) Won
1999 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1999 Bram Stoker Award Bram Stoker Awards Screenplay Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1999 Golden Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Screenplay, Adapted Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 Audience Choice Award Chicago International Film Festival Best Feature Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 Critics Award Deauville Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 FIPRESCI Prize Ghent International Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 Audience Award Ghent International Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 Silver Seashell San Sebastián International Film Festival Special Prize of the Jury Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1998 Golden Space Needle Award Seattle International Film Festival Best Director Gods and Monsters (1998) Won
1992 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Television Feature or Miniseries Murder 101 (1991) Won
2013 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Director The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Nominated
2008 Filmmaker Award Cinema Audio Society, USA Nominated
2007 Outfest Achievement Award L.A. Outfest Nominated
2007 Montecito Award Santa Barbara International Film Festival Dreamgirls (2006) Nominated
2006 AAFCA Award African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Best Director Dreamgirls (2006) Nominated
2006 Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Director Dreamgirls (2006) Nominated
2005 DGGB Award Directors Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film Kinsey (2004) Nominated
2005 Stephen F. Kolzak Award GLAAD Media Awards Nominated
2003 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Motion Picture Chicago (2002) Nominated
1999 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1999 Bram Stoker Award Bram Stoker Awards Screenplay Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1999 Golden Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Screenplay, Adapted Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 Audience Choice Award Chicago International Film Festival Best Feature Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 Critics Award Deauville Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 FIPRESCI Prize Ghent International Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 Audience Award Ghent International Film Festival Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 Silver Seashell San Sebastián International Film Festival Special Prize of the Jury Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1998 Golden Space Needle Award Seattle International Film Festival Best Director Gods and Monsters (1998) Nominated
1992 Edgar Edgar Allan Poe Awards Best Television Feature or Miniseries Murder 101 (1991) Nominated