NICHOLAS ELIOPOULOS PRODUCER-WRITER-DIRECTOR EDITOR

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Nicholas Eliopoulos incorporates an award-winning career spanning over three decades in the entertainment Industry. His diverse talents have been acknowledged in the areas of writing, directing, producing, and also film and sound editing, in some of Hollywood’s most watched venues. Mr. Eliopoulos has Produced, Directed and Edited three acclaimed documentary features, MARY PICKFORD, MUSE OF THE MOVIES, which had its World Premiere at the 35th Telluride Film Festival and its European Premiere at the 27th Pordenone International Film Festival just outside Venice, Italy. The Los Angeles Premiere was held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills. Also RUSSIA, A CENTURY OF CHANGE, covering the former Soviet Union from the time of the Tsars through the fall of Communism for which Mr.Eliopoulos interviewed Boris Yeltsin, as well as Mikhail Gorbachov, and VISIONS OF A NEW WORLD with Ted Danson, hosted by Marsha Mason, which highlights nine positive thinker’s vision of the Future. Mr. Eliopoulos is currently finishing his fourth Documentary, CELEBRATING LAUGHTER, The Life and Films of Colin Higgins.

Mr. Eliopoulos has won an Emmy Award, an Honorary Satellite Award from the International Press Academy, two Golden Reel Awards, and three Golden Scissors Awards. He has worked on such feature films as Best Picture Winner OUT OF AFRICA, the 20th Century Fox “hit” comedy NINE TO FIVE with Dolly Parton, , and Jane Fonda. Universal’s BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS with and Dolly Parton, and assisted Producer/Writer Colin Higgins and Shirley MacLaine on the Emmy Nominated Mini Series OUT ON A LIMB.

As a Motion Picture Film Editor, Nicholas also edited the “nine camera” 35mm Theatrical Comedy Concert Film for the Actor/Comedian Martin Lawrence entitled RUN TEL DAT. This feature was released by MTV Films, and Paramount Pictures. Mr. Eliopoulos has also edited the successful NBC Series LAW AND ORDER, CRIMINAL INTENT with Vincent D’Onofrio, as well as the acclaimed Dick Wolf NBC Series DEADLINE, which starred Oliver Platt, Bebe Neuwirth, Lily Taylor, Hope Davis, and Tom Conti. Mr. Eliopoulos directed the half hour Special for MTV entitled THE HEART OF HEARTBEAT starring Whoopi Goldberg and Bonnie Raitt on the making of Don Johnson's first Music Album. Mr. Eliopoulos served as Vice President of Production and Development for the Don Johnson Company at Universal Studios, Bungalow 75, and developed scripts for the two hour television movie MOTHERSHIP, also the anti- drug Special for kids entitled THE LAST CARTOON, plus the half hour sitcom pilot FLIPSIDE, which he Associate Produced, all for NBC. For New Line Cinema, Mr. Eliopoulos edited the comedy feature film WOO for Executive Producer John Singleton (BOYZ IN THE HOOD, ROSEWOOD and HUSTLE & FLOW) which starred Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, , as well as L.L. Cool J. Nicholas also edited six original cable movies for BET PICTURES. Mr. Eliopoulos edited the first feature film introducing actress Angelina Jolie for comedy writer/director’s Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna entitled LOVE IS ALL THERE IS. Mr. Eliopoulos also served as Associate Producer for the Off Broadway Play by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna BERMUDA AVENUE TRIANGLE. Nicholas edited the comedy feature film THE THIN PINK LINE, with an ensemble cast including Mike Myers, Jason Priestley, Jennifer Aniston, Janeane Garofalo, and David Schwimmer. Nicholas directed and edited the Mars Lasar music video THE ELEVENTH HOUR, and edited the music videos HEARTBEAT, and P.O.D.’s SELAH. Nicholas Produced and Directed the Animated Short FLY ME TO THE MOON, for GATEWAYS TO SPACE, which features Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, and was considered that year in the short list for Academy Award consideration in Animation. Having served as Animation Supervisor for “Violet (Lily Tomlin’s) fantasy sequence in the “hit” movie NINE TO FIVE, Mr. Eliopoulos has currently utilized his experience in Animation for the co-writing of the screenplay of the feature animated film CYBERHOP, An Ultimate Hip Hop Dance Party in Outer Space.. Mr. Eliopoulos is currently in development on the feature documentary HELLO DALI, The Surreal Life & Paintings of Salvador Dali, The Hollywood Years.

Mr. Eliopoulos won his Emmy Award for the CBS Mini Series WALLENBERG, A HERO'S STORY, Parts 1 & 2, starring Richard Chamberlain. His Honorary Satellite Award for MARY PICKFORD, THE MUSE OF THE MOVIES, the Golden Reel Awards for OUT OF AFRICA, as well as the CBS Mini-Series PETER THE GREAT. And his Golden Scissors Awards for Paramount’s FOUL PLAY, with Goldie Hawn, , and Dudley Moore, Warner Brothers, EUROPEAN VACATION with Chevy Chase, and THE RUNNER STUMBLES with Dick VanDyke, which was director Stanley Kramer’s last film.

Nicholas won a scholarship Award for his “student films” at the University of Kansas that sent him to study film at University of Southern California. Mr. Eliopoulos holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech and Drama from KU, and was a two-year editing fellow at the American Film Institute when it was housed at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. He is an active voting member of the Oscar-Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the Emmy-Television Academy, and is a 25-year member of the Motion Picture Editor’s Guild.