Margaret Elizabeth Ellison was born on January 31,1986 and is an American film producer, entrepreneur, and daughter of multibillionaire Larry Ellison.
24 Facts About Megan Ellison
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Megan Ellison is the founder of Annapurna Pictures, established in 2011.
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Megan Ellison produced the films Zero Dark Thirty, Her, American Hustle, and Phantom Thread, all of which have earned her Oscar nominations.
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In 2014, Megan Ellison was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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Megan Ellison received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
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Megan Ellison was born in Santa Clara County, California, the daughter of Oracle Corporation co-founder and chairman, multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and his ex-wife, Barbara Boothe Ellison.
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Megan Ellison has a brother, film producer David Ellison, who founded Skydance Media.
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Megan Ellison graduated from Sacred Heart Preparatory in 2004 and attended film school at the University of Southern California for one year.
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Megan Ellison was given her first film credit in 2005 as a boom operator for the short film When All Else Fails, a thriller written and directed by her brother David Megan Ellison.
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Megan Ellison then began to finance low-budget movies such as Waking Madison and Passion Play.
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Megan Ellison started out in the film business in 2006 when she contacted Katherine Brooks, the writer and director of Loving Annabelle, about investing in the filmmaker's next movie.
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Megan Ellison financed the film that was reported to have a budget of $2 million.
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Megan Ellison provided some financing for more movies in 2008 and 2009.
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Megan Ellison has since founded Annapurna Pictures, a company that plans to take a so-called "Silicon Valley" approach to filmmaking by investing in original, daring movies made by prestigious directors and screenwriters.
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In 2011 and 2012, it was reported that Megan Ellison was working with Boal on developing a movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange based on a New York Times Magazine article called "The Boy Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller.
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In 2011, Megan Ellison outbid Lionsgate for the rights to the Terminator franchise.
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Ellison would then make a deal with her brother David Ellison so his Skydance Productions produced Terminator Genisys, where Megan only had an executive producer credit.
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In 2014, Megan Ellison became the first woman and the fourth person to receive two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture in the same year, which she received for her work on Her and American Hustle.
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In June 2014, Megan Ellison optioned the screen rights for the memoir A House in the Sky, which tells the story of Amanda Lindhout and her capture by Somali rebels in 2011.
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Also in 2014, Megan Ellison was included as part of The Advocate's annual "40 Under 40" list.
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In 2018, Megan Ellison won the Woman in Motion Award at Cannes Music Festival.
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Megan Ellison left to Lanai, a Hawaiian island owned by her father, and remained there as the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to remain isolated.
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In early 2021, her former chief of distribution Erik Lomis approached Megan Ellison regarding purchasing Nimona, a project about to be cancelled with the closure of its production company Blue Sky Studios.
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Megan Ellison liked the footage and the film's LGBT elements, and agreed to acquire the project, establishing an Annapurna Animation division and hiring studio DNEG Animation to complete Nimona, eventually released by Netflix in 2023.