Suzanne Baker Biography
Suzanne Dale Baker, an Australian film producer, is also a feminist, historian, writer, and television and print journalist. Moreover, her animated short film Leisure earned her the 1977 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, making her the first Australian woman to do so.
Suzanne Baker Age
In 1939, while her parents were traveling from Australia, Baker was born in England. She is eighty-five years old now.
Suzanne Baker height
Baker has not revealed his height in public but looking at her photo she has an average height. READ ALSO: Natasha MitchellÂ
Suzanne Baker parents
Her parents were Sidney J. Baker, a writer and philologist from New Zealand, and his first wife, Sally Baker. Baker was seven years old when they separated, and the two divorced when she was eleven. The book that made Baker most famous was The Australian Language, which was praised by H. L. Mencken of The American Language. Stephanie is her younger sibling. Her mother wed newspaper publisher Lindsay Clinch when she was twelve years old. Her father also got married twice.
Suzanne Baker education
Baker left school at the age of 15 after attending Sydney Girls High School. Alice joined her stepfather when he was hired to manage John Fairfax and Sons’ New York office, where she worked for NBC and attended New York University to study television production.
Suzanne Baker Career
She worked as a journalist for ABC after returning to Australia and producing Bob Sanders’ People. After that, she worked for Thames TV in the UK before returning to Australia in 1971 to work for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she updated the women’s section called Look!
The Media Women’s Action Group was founded in 1972, and Baker was one of its founding members. She became the first female Australian to receive an Academy Award as a result. Since she was not expected to win and Film Australia had a small budget for international travel, she did not attend the ceremony. Moreover, the presenter, Marty Feldman, accepted the award on her behalf.
Baker took a television crew to China in 1978 to produce the five-part documentary series The Human Face of China, which was aired around the world in 1980. The companion book was also written by her.
After her passion for filmmaking faded, Baker left Film Australia in 1984 to enroll as a mature student at the University of Sydney, where she earned an honors degree in history in 2006.Her “Realising an Absent Presence” thesis aimed to acknowledge the long-overlooked impact of women on Australian literature, particularly in her father’s work, The Australian Language.
Suzanne Baker Books
In his 2011 book Beethoven and the Zipper: The Astonishing Story of Musica Viva, Baker described how Richard Goldner, an Austrian immigrant to Australia, created Musica Viva Australia in 1945 using the money he earned from the invention and patent of a zip fastener for the Australian Army.
Over time, Musica Viva Australia expanded to become the world’s largest entrepreneurial chamber music organization. Producer Brian Rosen of Tree Productions optioned the book for a film. Joan Sauers wrote the screenplay (working title: The Musician), and the film was scheduled for release in later 2020, the year that marks Musica Viva’s 75th anniversary.
Baker was the first female producer in Film Australia in 1973. During the 49th Academy Awards in 1977, she was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Picture for the animated film Leisure, which was directed by Bruce Petty.
Suzanne Baker Awards
1977: Academy Awards for Leisure’s Best Animated Short Film
In 1980, The Human Face of China was the recipient of the Henry Lawson Award.
In 2019, on the Queen’s birthday, an Order of Australia (AM) member Suzanne
Suzanne Baker Net Worthy
Baker has kept his financial information secret but there is no doubt she has earned a good sum from her successful career.
