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Lee, Gerard, 1951-
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- Lee, Gerard Majella, 1951-
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1951-
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Gerard Lee is an Australian author, screenwriter and director. Born in Melbourne and raised in Brisbane, Lee began writing for The Telegraph newspaper at 16 years of age. Lee studied at the University of Queensland and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). He met Jane Campion at AFTRS and began a long standing creative partnership. Lee co-wrote Campion’s feature film debut, Sweetie, which won Best Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Awards and a Camera d’Or at Cannes.
Lee’s feature film, All Men Are Liars, opened the Sydney Film Festival in 1995 and won awards at the San Remo Film Festival and the Palm Springs Film Festival. Lee produced and wrote the screenplay for the film My Mistress (2014) and was the principal screenwriter on Breath (2018) adapted from the novel of the same name by Tim Winton.
As a television writer, Lee and Campion co-wrote the successful series Top of the Lake (2013), which garnered eight Emmy nominations for its first series. The second season, Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), was the first television project to be screened in its entirety at Cannes Film Festival.
As a prose writer, Lee has published Pieces for a glass piano, True love and how to get it, Troppo man and Eating dog: travel stories all with the University of Queensland Press between 1978 and 1993. His second novel, Troppo Man (1990), was shortlisted for the Vogel’s Young Writers Award.
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Revised. KM, 31-01-2025. Revised, FF, 09-Jun-2020
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Author entry, AustLit, accessed online 09-Jun-2020.
Australian Film Television and Radio School (n.d). Gerard Lee, accessed online 31-Jan-2025.
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Revised with other form of name, updated history, authority record idenfiers and sources, FF, 09-Jun-2020.