Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz AM (born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen, 14 July 1944) is an Australian film critic, writer, producer, and television personality.
Margaret Pomeranz
Film critic (Screen, on Foxtel Arts)
- Film critic
- television personality
- producer
- writer
- Advertising Standards Board
- Film Critics Circle of Australia
- Watch on Censorship
- Australian Writers' Foundation
Hans Pomeranz
Early life[edit]
Pomeranz was born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen on 14 July 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney.[1][2]
She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and social psychology, and the Playwright's Studio at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).[1][2]
In between her studies, she spent two-and-a-half years in Vienna, where she worked as a stringer for The Bulletin and ABC Rural Radio. She wrote stories about such things as Australian sales to Hungarian farmers, and the effects of the Russian wheat crop failing.[3]
Recognition and honours[edit]
Pomeranz was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2005 Australia Day Honours.[18]
In 2015, Pomeranz and Stratton were named patrons of the French Film Festival in Australia.[19]
On 13 April 2016, Pomeranz and Stratton were both awarded honorary doctorates (Doctor of Letters) at Macquarie University, for their contribution to the film industry[20][21]
In 2017, Pomeranz became the first woman to be honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton, Queensland.[22] She was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of Sydney in May 2023.[23]
Pomeranz and Stratton received the Don Dunstan Award in 2018 and are both Patrons of the Adelaide Film Festival.[24]
In May 2023, Pomeranz was awarded an honorary doctorate (Letters) from the University of Sydney "for her impact on popular culture, film and performing arts".[25]
Pomeranz had an uncredited role in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as Adam's mother.
She has also appeared as herself in several Australian comedy programs and promotions, including: