Jill Bilcock

Jill Elizabeth Bilcock (born 1948 as Jill Stevenson), is an Australian film editor. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002), and Elizabeth (1998). In 2007 she won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking.

Early life and education Jill Elizabeth was born in 1948 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Her family, which included Jill and two brothers, moved to Melbourne when she was three, and her father left the family when she was four. Her mother worked full-time as a teacher at a technical school, and went to the University of Melbourne at night to complete a degree in commerce.

She is a graduate of the Swinburne Film and Television School (1968 after leaving school and enrolling at Swinburne Technical College at the age of 15, encouraged by her mother.

Recognition, awards, and honours Bilcock is a member of the Australian Screen Editors guild, which permits her to use the post-nominals ASE and ACE.

The documentaries Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing for ABC TV and the cinema-released Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (78 mins), both in 2017, explore her life and work.

Bilcock is highly respected in the industry, and has received several lifetime achievement awards, including the AFI Byron Kennedy Award, AFI International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, and IF Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

She has been awarded two official Australian honours: 2001: Centenary Medal, "For service to Australian society and film production" 2018: Companion of the Order of Australia (the highest award), "For eminent service to the Australian motion picture industry as a film editor, to the promotion and development of the profession, as a role model, and through creative contributions to the nation's cultural identity", in the Queen's Birthday 2018 Honours List

Film awards and nominations include: 1992: Winner, Best Achievement in Editing in the 1992 Australian Film Institute Awards, for Strictly Ballroom 1992: Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Editing in the 45th British Academy Film Awards, for Strictly Ballroom 1995: Byron Kennedy Award 1996: Winner, Best Editing, MovieMaker Readers Awards 1996: Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Editing in the 50th British Academy Film Awards, for Romeo + Juliet 2002: Winner Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors (best edited comedy or musical feature film) for Moulin Rouge! 2001: Nominated, Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Oscar), for Moulin Rouge! 2002: Nominated, BAFTA Award for Best Editing in the 55th British Academy Film Awards, for Moulin Rouge! 2012: Moulin Rouge! listed as the 32nd best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild 2013: Jill Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry, one of two Victorian Screen Leader Awards established by Film Victoria the preceding year 2015: Nominated, AACTA Award for Best Editing, for The Dressmaker

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