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Suzanne Baker (born 1939) is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist. In 1977 she was the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award, for the animated short film ''Leisure'', in the category Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. ==Career== Suzanne Baker was born in England in 1939, while her Australian parents were visiting that country.〔〔(Suzanne Baker, July Lunch-Hour Talk: "Back-to-Front Career", Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter, Vol 17, No. 4, November 2006 ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 Her parents were the New Zealand-born writer, philologist and documenter of Australian slang and idiom, Sidney J. Baker (1912–1976) and his first wife Sally Baker (née Eena Dale Young; 1913–2004),〔(State Library of New South Wales, Record Details: Suzanne Baker ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 who separated when Suzanne was seven〔 and divorced when she was eleven.〔 She has a younger sister, Stephanie.〔(''Australian Dictionary of Biography'': Sidney John Baker ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 When she was twelve, her mother married Lindsay Clinch (1907–1984), a newspaper editor.〔 Her father also twice remarried.〔 Baker attended Sydney Girls High School〔〔(Sydney Girls High School ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 but left school at age 15.〔 When her stepfather was appointed to run the New York office of John Fairfax and Sons, Suzanne accompanied him and studied television production at New York University and worked for NBC.〔 On return to Australia she worked as a journalist for the ABC and was a producer for Bob Sanders' ''People''. Her career then took her to the United Kingdom, where she worked for Thames TV, and then back to Australia in 1971 to work with the ''Sydney Morning Herald'', where she modernised the women's section called ''Look!''〔〔〔 In 1972 she was a founding member of the Media Women's Action Group.〔 In 1973 Baker joined Film Australia as its first female film producer. In this capacity, she was nominated for, and won, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the animated film ''Leisure'', directed by Bruce Petty,〔(IMdB: ''Leisure'' ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 at the 49th Academy Awards, presented in 1977.〔 This made her the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award.〔 She did not attend the ceremony, as Film Australia had a limited budget for overseas travel〔 and she was not expected to win.〔(Richard Jinman, "She's still got it … and memories of a brilliant career", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 15 March 2003 ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 The award was accepted on her behalf by the presenter, Marty Feldman.〔(Oscars.org ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 In 1978 Baker led a television crew to China to make the five-part documentary series ''The Human Face of China'', which was released worldwide in 1980.〔(National Film and Sound Archive ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕〔(Arthur Unger, 'The Human Face of China', ''Christian Science Monitor'', 7 July 1980 ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 She also wrote the accompanying book.〔 Her interest in film making having waned,〔 Suzanne Baker left Film Australia in 1984 and entered the University of Sydney〔(Richard Jinman, "What Oscar did next", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 15 March 2003 ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 as a mature age student, completing an honours degree in history in 2006.〔 Her thesis, titled "Realising an Absent Presence", sought to recognise the influence of women on Australian literature, an influence that had long been neglected in Australian literature studies, including in her own father's work, particularly his magnum opus, ''The Australian Language'', published in 1945.〔 In 2011, Baker published ''Beethoven and the Zipper: The Astonishing Story of Musica Viva'', which detailed how an Austrian immigrant to Australia, Richard Goldner, invented and patented a zip fastener for the Australian Army, and used the proceeds to establish Musica Viva Australia in 1945, which went on to become the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organisation.〔( Steve Meacham, "Author plays score of life found in music", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 April 2011 ). Retrieved 14 March 2014〕 The book was optioned for a movie by Tree Productions (producer Brian Rosen). The screenplay (working title ''The Musician'') is by Joan Sauers and the movie is slated for release in later 2016, one year after the 70th anniversary of Musica Viva. Suzanne Baker lives in central Sydney. Her Oscar statuette, once used as a doorstop in her bedroom, now has the dignity of a shelf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suzanne Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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