Phillip Noyce

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Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian director, producer, and screenwriter of film and television.

Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American), thrillers (Dead Calm, Sliver, The Bone Collector), and action films (Blind Fury, The Saint, Salt).

He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994) and the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver.

He has worked with such actors as Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Rutger Hauer and others.

He has also directed, written, and executive-produced television programmes in both Australia and North America, including The Cowra Breakout, Vietnam, Revenge, Roots, and most-recently Netflix's What/If. Noyce's work has won him several accolades, including AACTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and a special Longford Lyell lifetime achievement award.

Personal life

Noyce has been married three times. He was married to film producer Jan Chapman from 1971 to 1977. From 1979 to 2004, he was married to producer Jan Sharp, with whom he has two children. He is now married to designer Vuyo Dyasi, with whom he has two children.

Noyce was an avid supporter of the Labor government of Gough Whitlam.

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Life and career

Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, and started making short films at the age of 18. A poster for a screening of "underground" films captured his interest, and the 16 American and Australian experimental films ignited something else. The 15-minute Better to Reign in Hell, he shot his first short film four months later, was funded by selling roles to his friends.

Noyce became the head of the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op, a group of filmmakers, in 1969. With Jan Chapman, he operated the Filmmaker's Cinema in Sydney for three years, screening the short films of the directors who would lead the Australian New Wave: Gillian Armstrong, Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, George Miller, Paul Cox. These were boomers who had grown up rarely seeing an Australian film as British and American interests controlled distribution and exhibition Australia wide.

He joined the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 1973, making his first commercial film in 1975. Many of Noyce's films feature espionage, as the father of his father fought with the Australian Commando unit Z Force during World War II.

Noyce's debut feature, medium-length Backroads (1977), was a huge commercial and critical success with Newsfront (1978), which received Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards for Best Film, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Best Film, which opened the London Film Festival, and was the first Australian film to attend the New York Film Festival.

Noyce appeared on two Australian television shows The Dismissal (1983) and The Cowra Breakout (1984). Dead Calm (1988), Miller's first film that brought Noyce to the attention of Hollywood studios, launched Nicole Kidman's career. Noyce went to America to direct Blind Fury starring Rutger Hauer for Tri-Star Pictures after Dead Calm.

Noyce directed five films over the next eight years, one of which, with Clear and Present Danger starring Harrison Ford, was the most profitable, economically and commercially grossing $216 million. Noyce, who starred Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington in 1999, has returned to Australia for his Stolen Generations' saga Rabbit-Proof Fence, which received the AFI Award for Best Film in 2002. "I've portrayed Rabbit-Proof Fence as his best day as a director" and "seeing their reaction after the film was shown throughout the country, giving the story a "true" meaning to the stolen generations' experiences. Despite being independently funded, the film was a big success with Australian audiences and sold worldwide.

In addition, Noyce was praised for her book The Quiet American, the 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene's book, which earned Michael Caine's Academy Award Best Actor nomination and multiple accolades from London Film Critics' Circle and National Board of Review in the United States, as well as the coveted best director award from the National Board of Review in the United States. Noyce decided to make another big budget studio film starring Angelina Jolie, which was his biggest commercial success to date, grossing nearly $300 million worldwide, following the Apartheid-set Catch a Fire (2006) in South Africa.

Noyce produced the pilot for ABC's Revenge in 2011 and has since produced numerous television pilots, including Netflix's What If starring Renée Zellweger and the ongoing FOX Network's The Resident, which is now in its fifth season. He signed a first glance at 20th Century Fox Television in 2017.

Originally scheduled to be released in America in 2020 by Roadside Attractions, the Coronavirus Pandemic caused the rise of above Suspicion.

Noyce became Executive Producer on the film Show Me What You Got, written and directed by Svetlana Cvetko in 2021. "He obviously believed in our vision and ability to tell this story in the way we wanted, and just helped us enhance it," Cvetko says of Noyce in a 2022 FilmInk interview.

In February 2022, Roadside Attractions will sell the Desperate Hour (originally named Lakewood) starring Naomi Watts.

In late 2021, a 17 film and ten short retrospective of Noyce's work were shown at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

Phillip Noyce's next film, which will be shot in spring of 2022, will be the darkly comedic drama Fast Charlie starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, and James Caan, written by Richard Wenk.

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