About Megan Ellison
Margaret "Megan" Elizabeth Ellison (born January 31, 1986) is an American film producer. She founded Annapurna Pictures in 2011. Her production work includes the films Zero Dark Thirty (2012), American Hustle (2013), Her (2013), and Phantom Thread (2017), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. She is also credited as an executive producer on Nimona (2023), which was nominated for Best Animated Feature. In 2014, Ellison was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. She also received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop. She is the daughter of centibillionaire Larry Ellison. She has a brother, film producer David Ellison, who founded Skydance Media. Her first film credit was as a boom operator for the short film When All Else Fails, a thriller written and directed by her brother David Ellison. In 2014, Ellison became the first woman and the fourth person to receive two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture in the same year, which she received for her work on Her and American Hustle. Her production work includes the films American Hustle (2013), Her (2013), Phantom Thread (2017), and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), where she received Academy Award for Best Picture nominations.
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