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Robert Connolly

Producer, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn November 27, 1967 (57 years)
Robert Connolly is a film director, producer and screenwriter based in Melbourne, Australia. Connolly is best known as the director and writer of the feature films Balibo, Three Dollars and The Bank, and the producer of the high-profile Australian films Romulus, My Father and The Boys. Connolly's first feature film as producer, The Boys, had its world premiere In Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998. It was nominated for 13 AFI Awards including Best Film, and won awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. In 1998, Connolly was named by Variety as one of the 10 best emerging producers in the world. Three Dollars, The Bank and The Boys have a strong political agenda and have been released in Australia as a DVD box set along with the documentary The Political Arena exploring the social and political strands of the films. In 2007 Connolly and Arenafilm's John Maynard together produced the period immigration drama Romulus, My Father, directed by Richard Roxburgh, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • These Final Hours
  • Three Dollars
  • Dark Frontier
Known For
  • These Final Hours
  • The Dry
  • Force of Nature: The Dry 2
  • Paper Planes
  • Deep State
  • The Bank
  • Balibo
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Romulus, My Father
  • Underground: The Julian Assange Story
  • The Turning
  • The Slap
  • Blueback
  • Barracuda
  • Three Dollars
  • Emily
  • The Monkey's Mask
  • Gallipoli
  • Releasing Mar 21, 2025
  • The Boys
  • Chasing Asylum
  • West
  • Ten Empty
  • Sweet As

Filmography

2024
2024
2024
Memoir of a Snail · as Executive Producer
2024
2022
Petrol · as Executive Producer
2022
2022
2022
Sweet As · as Executive Producer
2022
Because We Have Each Other · as Executive Producer
2020
The Dry · as Executive Producer
2018
Happy Sad Man · as Executive Producer
2018
Acute Misfortune · as Executive Producer
2018
[Censored] · as Executive Producer
2017
Guilty · as Executive Producer
2017
2016
Chasing Asylum · as Executive Producer
2015
Spear · as Executive Producer
2015
Gallipoli (TV Series)
2014
2013
These Final Hours · as Executive Producer
2013
2009
Dark Frontier · as Executive Producer
2007
West · as Consulting Producer
2007
2005
2003
2003
2003
2000
Better Than Sex · as Consulting Producer
2000
1998
1995
All Men Are Liars · as Executive Producer
1995
1995

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