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Margaret Elizabeth "Megan" Ellison is an American film producer. She started her career when she decided to invest in Katherine Brooks' independent drama/thriller Waking Madison. In 2008, she co-produced Main Street, starring Colin Firth. She followed with Passion Play in 2009,...Read more and the Coen brothers' True Grit in 2010, which was her first major commercially and critically successful film. After producing the successful crime film Lawless, she started her won production company, dubbed Annapurna Pictures, that has taken an independent approach in choosing its productions, investing in original, daring movies made by prestigious directors and screenwriters. Ellison launched Annapurna with the production of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master in 2012, which won the Best Director Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. She also produced Katheryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. In 2013, Ellison made two of the years most critically successful films: Her, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Phoenix, and David O. Russel's American Hustle, which starred Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence. She has received a Golden Globe for Best Musical/Comedy for American Hustle, and two academy award nominations for both films.


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  • Margaret Elizabeth "Megan" Ellison is an American film producer. She started her career when she decided to invest in Katherine Brooks' independent drama/thriller Waking Madison....Read more In 2008, she co-produced Main Street, starring Colin Firth. She followed with Passion Play in 2009, and the Coen brothers' True Grit in 2010, which was her first major commercially and critically successful film. After producing the successful crime film Lawless, she started her won production company, dubbed Annapurna Pictures, that has taken an independent approach in choosing its productions, investing in original, daring movies made by prestigious directors and screenwriters. Ellison launched Annapurna with the production of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master in 2012, which won the Best Director Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. She also produced Katheryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. In 2013, Ellison made two of the years most critically successful films: Her, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Phoenix, and David O. Russel's American Hustle, which starred Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence. She has received a Golden Globe for Best Musical/Comedy for American Hustle, and two academy award nominations for both films.

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