Jill Bilcock
# Jill Bilcock

Jill Elizabeth Bilcock AC (born 1948) is an Australian film editor, a member of the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) guild, as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE) society, and has edited films such as Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and Road to Perdition. She occasionally gives seminars at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, of which she is an alumna.

Bilcock was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a graduate of the Swinburne College of Technology. She won the 2002 Eddie Award (best edited comedy or musical feature film) for Moulin Rouge!, for which she also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. She has been nominated four times for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Three of these nominations were for the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002). The fourth BAFTA nomination was for Elizabeth (1998), directed by Shekhar Kapur.

The documentaries Jill Billcock: The Art Of Film Editing for ABC TV and the cinema-released Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, both in 2017, explore her life and work.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1984 | Strikebound | Richard Lowenstein | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1986 | The More Things Change... | Robyn Nevin | |
| 1986 | Dogs in Space | Richard Lowenstein | |
| 1987 | Australian Made: The Movie | Richard Lowenstein | |
| 1988 | Evil Angels | Fred Schepisi | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1990 | Till There Was You | John Seale | |
| 1992 | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1993 | Say a Little Prayer | Richard Lowenstein | |
| 1993 | Temptation of a Monk | Clara Law | |
| 1994 | Erotique | Clara Law | Segment: "Wonton Soup" |
| 1994 | Erotique | Lizzie Borden | Segment: "Let's Talk About Love" |
| 1994 | Erotique | Ana Maria Magalhães | Segment: "Final Call" |
| 1994 | Erotique | Monika Treut | Segment: "Taboo Parlor" |
| 1994 | Muriel's Wedding | P. J. Hogan | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1994 | I.Q. | Fred Schepisi | |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Jocelyn Moorhouse | |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Baz Luhrmann | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 1998 | Head On | Ana Kokkinos | AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1999 | Harry's War | Richard Frankland | |
| 2000 | The Dish | Rob Sitch | |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | AACTA Award for Best Editing ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | |
| 2003 | Japanese Story | Sue Brooks | AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—FCCA Award for Best Editor Nominated—Inside Film Award for Best Editing |
| 2004 | The Libertine | Laurence Dunmore | Nominated—ASE Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film |
| 2006 | Catch a Fire | Phillip Noyce | |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Shekhar Kapur | |
| 2009 | The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée | |
| 2009 | Blessed | Ana Kokkinos | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 2010 | Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | Troy Nixey | |
| 2011 | Red Dog | Kriv Stenders | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Inside Film Award for Best Editing |
| 2012 | Mental | P. J. Hogan | Nominated—ASE Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film |
| 2014 | Arrows of the Thunder Dragon | Greg Sneddon | |
| 2014 | Kill Me Three Times | Kriv Stenders | |
| 2014 | My Mistress | Stephen Lance | |
| 2014 | Driving Miss Daisy | David Esbjornson | Theatrical release of Australian stage production |
| 2015 | The Dressmaker | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Nominated—AACTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—FCCA Award for Best Editor |
| 2016 | Red Dog: True Blue | Kriv Stenders | |
| 2019 | Ride Like a Girl | Rachel Griffiths | |
| TBA | Paani | Shekhar Kapur | |

## Awards and recognition

* 1996, Won for Best Editing from MovieMaker Readers Awards
* 2001 – nominated for an Oscar
* 2002 – Won an American Cinema Editors award
* 2007 – Won the International Award for Filmmaking Excellence from Australian Film Institute
* 2012 – Moulin Rouge! was listed as the 32nd best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
* 2018 – Companion of the Order of Australia
