14 Facts About Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce was born on 29 April 1950 and is an Australian filmmaker.

Phillip Noyce has directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger and the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver.

Phillip Noyce has worked with such actors as Val Kilmer, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Rutger Hauer.

Phillip Noyce's work has won him several accolades, including AACTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and a special Longford Lyell lifetime achievement award.

Phillip Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, attended high school at Barker College in Sydney and began making short films at the age of 18.

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In 1969, Phillip Noyce became the manager of the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op, a collective of filmmakers.

Many of his films feature espionage, as Phillip Noyce grew up listening to his father's stories of serving with the Australian Commando unit Z Force during World War II.

Phillip Noyce worked on two miniseries for Australian television with fellow Australian filmmaker George Miller: The Dismissal and The Cowra Breakout .

Phillip Noyce was lauded for The Quiet American, the 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, which gave Michael Caine an Academy Award Best Actor nomination and earned best director awards from London Film Critics' Circle and National Board of Review in the US.

In 2021, Phillip Noyce became Executive Producer on the film Show Me What You Got, written and directed by Svetlana Cvetko.

In late 2021, a 17 feature and 10 shorts retrospective of Phillip Noyce's work was presented at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris.

Phillip Noyce was married to film producer Jan Chapman from 1971 to 1977.

Phillip Noyce is married to designer Vuyo Dyasi, with whom he has two children.

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