Michael Rymer
{{Short description|Australian television and film director}}
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Michael Rymer (born March 1963 in Melbourne{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_rymer | title=Michael Rymer - Rotten Tomatoes | access-date=2024-04-10 | work=Rotten Tomatoes}}) is an Australian{{cite web | url=https://www.tribute.ca/people/biography/michael-rymer/6309/ | title=Michael Rymber biography and filmography | access-date=2024-04-10 | work=tribute.ca}} television and film director, best known for his work on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series, for which he directed the pilot miniseries and several episodes of the series. He also directed In Too Deep and Queen of the Damned.
Rymer attended film school at the University of Southern California.{{cite web | url=https://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/michael_rymer_01.htm | title=Michael Rymer interview | access-date=2024-04-10 | date=May 5, 2007 | first=Gilles | last=Nuytens | work=The SciFi World}}
Filmography
- Dead Sleep (1990)
- Angel Baby (1995){{cite web | url=https://if.com.au/michael-rymer-readies-sci-fi-series-tremula-picnic-at-hanging-rock-mini/ | title=Michael Rymer readies sci-fi series 'Tremula', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' mini | date=November 4, 2016 | accessdate=2024-04-10 | last=Windsor | first=Harry }}
- Allie and Me (1997)
- In Too Deep (1999)
- Perfume (2001)
- Queen of the Damned (2002){{cite web | url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/an-oral-history-of-queen-of-the-damned.html | title=An Oral History of Queen of the Damned How an Anne Rice novel became a Hollywood saga involving Aaliyah and the guy from Korn. | last=Jacobs | first=Matthew | work=Vulture | access-date=2024-04-10 | date=October 26, 2021}}
- Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)
- Revolution (2009)
- Face to Face (2011)
- American Horror Story: Asylum (2012)
- Hannibal (2013–2015)
- Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
- The Man in the High Castle (2015)
- Jessica Jones (2015)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) (2 episodes)
- The Gloaming (TV series){{cite web | url=https://if.com.au/emma-booth-ewen-leslie-explore-a-dark-world-in-the-gloaming/ | title=Emma Booth, Ewen Leslie explore a dark world in 'The Gloaming' | date=April 1, 2019 | access-date=2024-04-10 | last=Groves | first=Don}}
Awards
Rymer's directorial debut, Angel Baby, won seven Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in 1995, including Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original) for Rymer himself.{{cite news |last1=Money |first1=Lawrence |title=Rocky start for a film with a happy ending |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/rocky-start-for-a-film-with-a-happy-ending-20110724-1hvaq.html |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=The Age |date=24 July 2011 |language=en}}
Rymer won the award of Best Dramatic Feature at the 2012 Byron Bay International Film Festival for the film Face to Face, and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the Jessica Jones episode "AKA Smile" in 2016.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/08/22/hugo-awards-for-science-fiction-netflixs-jessica-jones-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-win-big/ | title=Hugo Awards for science fiction: Netflix's 'Jessica Jones,' Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman: Overture' win big | last=Cavna | first=Michael | access-date=2024-04-10 | date=August 22, 2016 | newspaper=Washington Post}}{{cite web | url=https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/ | title=2016 Hugo Awards | date=29 December 2015 | access-date=2024-04-10}} The 2003 Battlestar Galactica miniseries, which he directed, won the Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation in 2004.
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External links
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Category:Australian horror film directors
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