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John Gerald Collee (born 1955) is a Scottish/Australian doctor, novelist and screenwriter whose films have three times been nominated for Oscars.Master and Commander was nominated for Best Film 2003, Happy Feet won Best Animation in 2006, and Tanna (2015) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature in 2015.
John Collee studied medicine at Edinburgh University and has worked as a doctor in the UK, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Solomon Islands, and the former Soviet Union. In addition to his film and TV work he has written three novels - Kingsley's Touch, Paper Mask (1990) and The Rig, (all published by Penguin.) - and contributed a weekly column...
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The Rig. ISBN-0 670 83819 5. . Many people had pinned their hopes on the discovery of oil in Madagascar, but there is no oil, and in a tragic finale to the futile exploration, a plane crash kills the departing foreign drillers. In Canada, Spence, a burnt-out rig-worker, accepts the job of taking an inventory of the mothballed rig, but in the ...
Aug 30, 2016 · John Collee speaks about the fundamentals on how to get your script to cut through, and be less likely to fail, when submitting for funding.John is a novelis...
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John Collee. Writer: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. John Collee studied medicine at Edinburgh University and has worked as a doctor in the UK, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Solomon Islands, and the former Soviet Union. In addition to his film and TV work he has written three novels - Kingsley's Touch, Paper Mask (1990) and The Rig, (all published by Penguin.) - and contributed a weekly column...
Jun 5, 2021 · "Find someone who's done it before," says JOHN COLLEE, Oscar nominated writer, on this episode of 10 Lessons it Took Me 50 Years to Learn. Also, "why we have...
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John Collee (born 1955) is a Scottish screenwriter who has written scripts for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Happy Feet. He has written and co-written screenplays for the films Creation, Oceans, and Legend of the Guardians. He is married to Deborah Snow, and they have three children: Lauren Collee, Isla Collee, and Jack Collee. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Collee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
