Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Director (b. 1940)
11
Movies
73.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Bruce Beresford’s films higher than 63% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Mr. Church (YouTube, The CW, Fandango at Home, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Driving Miss Daisy (Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, Hoopla) · Breaker Morant (Shout! TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Tender Mercies (The CW, Fandango at Home, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Fawesome) · Double Jeopardy (Tubi, Kanopy) · Black Robe (Pluto TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) and 3 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Morgan Freeman (2)Jessica Tandy (1)Dan Aykroyd (1)Patti LuPone (1)Esther Rolle (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Bruce Beresford (73.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Bruce's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Bruce Beresford (/ˈbɛrɪsfərd/; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations. Beresford's films include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – which won four Oscars including Best Picture, Black Robe (1991), Silent Fall (1994), Double Jeopardy (1999), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), and Ladies in Black (2018). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Breaker Morant and Best Director for Tender Mercies. He won AACTA/AFI Awards – Best Direction (2) for Don's Party (1976) and Breaker Morant, and Best Screenplay (2) for Breaker Morant and The Fringe Dwellers (1986). In addition, four of Beresford's films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or, and four have been nominated for the Golden Bear. He has also been nominated for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Directors Guild of America Award, and won a Genie Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Beresford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1940-08-16 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

On ThumbScore, Bruce Beresford appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 73.0%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Bruce Beresford movie, ranked by audience score

Mr. Church
Mr. Church
2016
👍 90%
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
👍 87%
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant
1980
👍 77%
Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies
1983
👍 75%
Double Jeopardy
Double Jeopardy
1999
👍 74%
Black Robe
Black Robe
1991
👍 70%
The Contract
The Contract
2006
👍 67%
Her Alibi
Her Alibi
1989
👍 67%
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003
👍 66%
Evelyn
Evelyn
2002
👍 66%
Last Dance
Last Dance
1996
👍 64%