Ron Kelly
Ron Kelly | |
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Born | (1929-06-11) June 11, 1929 (age 95) Vancouver, British Columbia |
Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter Film producer |
Years active | 1956 - Present |
Ron Kelly (born June 11, 1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He began his career with the CBC film unit, directing many short and documentary films between 1952 and 1964. He traveled to France, Spain and Mexico producing and directing documentaries independently from 1956 to 1958. From 1959 to 1962 he studied at Pinewood Studios, England, on a Canadian Arts Council fellowship and while there produced and directed documentaries for the BBC, CBC and National Office of Film, UK. In 1967 he co-wrote and directed the feature film Waiting for Caroline, as a commemoration of Canada's centennial year. Waiting for Caroline was distributed internationally by United Artists, Hollywood. In Hollywood in 1968, Kelly directed for Twentieth Century Fox Studios and Disney Studio. In 1970 he returned to Canada, writing, directing and producing dramas and documentaries for the NFB and CBC. His most recent film is Victims of Victims (2004), a documentary exploration of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Awards and recognition
Ron Kelly received the Palme d'Or for England at the Cannes Film Festival, 1962 for The Tearaways. In 1965 he received a Canadian Film Award for Best Direction for his film The Gift, a documentary on Hiroshima, and again in 1967 for an episode of the TV Series Wojeck entitled The Last Man in the World. The latter also received the Golden Globe Award at Monte Carlo. Kelly's television productions of The Open Grave (a 1964 episode of the TV series Horizon) and The Megantic Outlaw (1970) were also winners of Canadian Film Awards, and The Open Grave won the Prix Italia in Genoa.[citation needed] The Irish received 1st prize for documentaries at the New York Film Festival, and the Atlanta Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival's Gold Bear Award in 1975.
Partial filmography
- The Open Grave (1964)
- Centennial Travellers (Documentary, 1965)
- Quo Vadis, Mrs. Lumb? (Documentary, 1965)
- The Gift (1965)
- Valley in a River (Documentary, 1966)
- The Last Man in the World (1966)
- Waiting for Caroline (1967)
- King of the Grizzlies (1970)
- The Megantic Outlaw (1971)
- Springhill (1972)
References
- ^ "Archives Canada - Ron Kelly". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23.
External links
- Ron Kelly at IMDb
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1966–1978
- Ron Kelly (1966)
- Allan King and Ron Kelly (1967)
- Don Owen (1968)
- Peter Pearson (1969)
- Paul Almond (1970)
- Claude Jutra (1971)
- Gilles Carle (1972)
- David Acomba (1973)
- No Award (1974)
- Michel Brault (1975)
- Harvey Hart (1976)
- Jean Beaudin (1977)
- Daryl Duke (1978)
1980–2011
- Bob Clark (1980)
- Francis Mankiewicz (1981)
- Gilles Carle (1982)
- Phillip Borsos (1983)
- Bob Clark / David Cronenberg (1984)
- Micheline Lanctôt (1985)
- Sandy Wilson (1986)
- Denys Arcand (1987)
- Jean-Claude Lauzon (1988)
- David Cronenberg (1989)
- Denys Arcand (1990)
- Bruce Beresford (1991)
- David Cronenberg (1992)
- François Girard (1993)
- Atom Egoyan (1994)
- Robert Lepage (1995)
- David Cronenberg (1996)
- Atom Egoyan (1997)
- François Girard (1998)
- Jeremy Podeswa (1999)
- Denis Villeneuve (2000)
- Zacharias Kunuk (2001)
- David Cronenberg (2002)
- Denys Arcand (2003)
- Francis Leclerc (2004)
- Jean-Marc Vallée (2005)
- Charles Binamé (2006)
- Sarah Polley (2007)
- Benoît Pilon (2008)
- Denis Villeneuve (2009)
- Denis Villeneuve (2010)
- Philippe Falardeau (2011)
2012–present
- Kim Nguyen (2012)
- Denis Villeneuve (2013)
- Xavier Dolan (2014)
- Lenny Abrahamson (2015)
- Xavier Dolan (2016)
- Aisling Walsh (2017)
- Jasmin Mozaffari (2018)
- Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn (2019)
- Deepa Mehta (2020)
- Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson (2021)
- Clement Virgo (2022)
- Matt Johnson (2023)