Megan Ellison

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Margaret Elizabeth Ellison (born January 31, 1986) is an American film producer and entrepreneur.

Annapurna Pictures was founded in 2011.

She has appeared in films Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Her (2013), American Hustle (2013), and Phantom Thread (2017), three of which have received her Oscar nominations.

In 2014, she was included in the annual Time 100 list of the world's most influential individuals.

Early life and education

Megan Ellison was born in Santa Clara, California, and the niece of Oracle Corporation co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison and his ex-wife, Barbara Boothe Ellison, were born. Her father is of Jewish and Italian descent. David Ellison, a film director who created Skydance Media, has a sister. Ellison graduated from Sacred Heart Preparatory in 2004 and attended film school at the University of Southern California for one year.

Early work

Ellison earned her first film role as a boom operator on the short film When All Else Fails, a drama written and directed by her brother David Ellison, in 2005. Ellison began to fund low-budget films such as Waking Madison and Passion Play. The success of the Coen Brothers' True Grit in 2010, on which she had served as an executive producer, raised her profile and brand and launched her career as a producer.

Personal life

Ellison is openly lesbian. She owns a number of motorcycles. Ellison declined to answer questions. She has competed at the Wild Turkey Farm in Woodside, California, and competed in the North American Young Rider Championships in 2004.

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Career

Ellison first started out in film in 2006 when she approached Katherine Brooks, author and producer of Loving Annabelle, about investing in the filmmaker's next film. The pair made preparations for Waking Madison, which starred Elisabeth Shue. The tale of a woman who tries to resolve her multiple personality disorder by incarcerating herself in a room without food for 30 days is told by the author. Ellison sponsored the film, which was expected to have a budget of $2 million. Principal photography was taken in 2007. In 2011, it premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival and then went straight to DVD in July of that year.

In 2008 and 2009, Ellison provided some funds for additional films. Colin Firth appeared on Main Street for the first time in the first film. It attracted little interest at film festivals and failed to gain general acceptance. Passion Play, which was also produced in 2009, received a release but it fared poorly at the box office, despite a large cast of well-known actors. However, her investment in the Coen brothers western remake True Grit earned her a major commercial and critical success when it was announced at the end of 2010.

Ellison earned significant sums of money from her father's filming of more films and collaborated with Michael Benaroya to produce and cofinance the drama Catch.44 starring Bruce Willis and Forest Whitaker, as well as John Hillcoat's Prohibition-era crime drama, Lawless. She began collaborating with the Creative Artists Agency's film finance group, led by Roeg Sutherland and Micah Green at the same time.

Annapurna Pictures, a company that intends to take a so-called "Silicon Valley" approach to filmmaking by investing in original, exciting films created by respected directors and screenwriters, has since founded Annapurna Pictures, which plans to take a so-called "Silicon Valley" approach to filmmaking. Annapurna Productions has released Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a period drama about a cult that mimics Scientology, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Kathryn Bigelow, an action-thriller about Osama bin Laden's murder, despite being surprised that risk-averse Hollywood studios have largely abandoned sophisticated dramas, period pieces, and auteur cinema.

Ellison was working with Boal on a film based on former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller's "The Boy Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by 2011. Ellison and Annapurna were forced to produce the film in 2012, but DreamWorks released The Fifth Estate in 2013.

Ellison denied Lionsgate for the rights to the Terminator franchise in 2011. Ellison dropped Annapurna Productions from the Terminator franchise's revival in January 2014.

Ellison earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture in the same year, and she was the first woman and the fourth person to receive two Academy Award nominations for her work on Her and American Hustle in 2014. Ellison selected the screen rights for A House in the Sky, which tells the tale of Amanda Lindhout and her capture by Somali rebels in 2011.

Ellison was also included on The Advocate's annual "40 Under 40" list in 2014.

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