Joanne Sellar


Producer

Biography

An award-winning producer of music videos for the likes of Elvis Costello, U2, Squeeze and Iggy Pop, JoAnne Sellar received her first feature producing credit for writer-director Richard Stanley's "Hardware" (1990) and reteamed with him as a producer on "Dust Devil" (1993). She then went on to produce (with the director) Clive Barker's supernatural noir "Lord of Illusions" (1995) before ...

Family & Companions

Daniel Lupi
Husband
Line producer.

Biography

An award-winning producer of music videos for the likes of Elvis Costello, U2, Squeeze and Iggy Pop, JoAnne Sellar received her first feature producing credit for writer-director Richard Stanley's "Hardware" (1990) and reteamed with him as a producer on "Dust Devil" (1993). She then went on to produce (with the director) Clive Barker's supernatural noir "Lord of Illusions" (1995) before sharing producing duties (with Lloyd Levin and John Lyon) on Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" (1997). Sellar and her husband Daniel Lupi went on to produce Anderson's follow-up "Magnolia" (1999) and she served as one of the producers on the Alan Cumming-Jennifer Jason Leigh project "The Anniversary Party" (2001).

Life Events

1988

Received credit for "assistance" on Neil Jordan's "High Spirits"

1990

Co-produced "Red, Hot & Blue" (ABC), a worldwide tribute to Cole Porter, benefiting AIDS research

1990

First feature film credit as producer on writer-director Richard Stanley's "Hardware"

1993

Reteamed with Stanley, as producer of "Dust Devil"

1995

Produced Clive Barker's "Lord of Illusions"

1997

Served as producer (with Lloyd Levin and John Lyons) for Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights"

1999

Re-teamed with Anderson for "Magnolia"; served as a producer

2001

Produced the ensemble feature, "The Anniversary Party"

2002

Produced Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love"

2007

Produced Anderson's "There Will Be Blood"; her fourth collaboration with the director; earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture

Family

Roman Lupi
Son
Born on August 10, 1998.

Companions

Daniel Lupi
Husband
Line producer.

Bibliography