Nicholas Eliopoulos

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 as well as film and sound editing in some of Hollywood's most watched Venues. Mr. Eliopoulos has just completed his 4th Feature Documentary entitled: CELEBRATING LAUGHTER, THE LIFE AND FILMS OF COLIN HIGGINS. Mr. Eliopoulos also produced, edited and directed three previous acclaimed feature documentaries. MARY PICKFORD, MUSE OF THE MOVIES which premiered on Turner Classic Movies. This feature documentary also won the Best Film Award at the Universal Film Festival. Plus the feature documentary RUSSIA, A CENTURY OF CHANGE which covers the former Soviet Union from the time of the Tsars through the fall of Communism and Mr. Eliopoulos interviewed the late Boris Yeltsin, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev for this film. Mr. Eliopoulos' first feature documentary VISIONS OF A NEW WORLD, with Ted Danson and narrated by Marsha Mason, highlights nine positive thinkers' vision of the Future, and is considered a forerunner in its field. 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, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda, Universal's BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS with Burt Reynolds 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, Mr. Eliopoulos 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. He also was an editor on the successful NBC series LAW AND ORDER, CRIMINAL INTENT with Vincent D'Onofrio, as well as the acclaimed Dick Wolf NBC original series DEADLINE, which starred Oliver Platt, Bebe Neuwirth, and Hope Davis. Mr. Eliopoulos directed the half hour Special for MTV entitled THE HEART OF HEARTBEAT starring Whoopi Goldberg, Willy Nelson, the late Stevie Ray Vaugh & Ron Wood, and Bonnie Raitt. This Special was on the making of Don Johnson's first music album. Mr. Eliopoulos also 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, 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, Dave Chappelle, as well as L.L. Cool J. He also edited six original cable movies for BET PICTURES, in addition to editing the first feature film introducing actress Angelina Jolie for comedy writer/director's Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna entitled LOVE IS ALL THERE IS. Further Mr. Eliopoulos served as Associate Producer for the Off Broadway Play by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna BERMUDA AVENUE TRIANGLE. Mr. Eliopoulos produced and directed the Animated Short FLY ME TO THE MOON, for GATEWAYS TO SPACE, which featured Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson)and was considered that year in the "short list" for Academy Award consideration as Best Animated Short. Having served as Animation Supervisor for "Violet (Lily Tomlin's) fantasy sequence in the "hit" movie NINE TO FIVE, Mr. Eliopoulos is utilizing his experience for his own company Hollywood Central in the development of a feature animated film CYBERHOP, An Ultimate Hip Hop Dance Party in Outer Space which he co-wrote with Bradley Rapier. Mr. Eliopoulos has won an Emmy Award for the CBS Mini Series WALLENBERG, A HERO'S STORY, Parts 1 & 2, starring Richard Chamberlain, an Honorary Satellite Award from the International Press Academy and the Best Film Award from the Universal Film Festival for MARY PICKFORD, THE MUSE OF THE MOVIES. For his editing skills, he has won a Golden Reel Award for OUT OF AFRICA, as well as the CBS Mini-Series PETER THE GREAT. Additional awards include his Golden Scissors Awards for Paramount's FOUL PLAY with Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Dudley Moore, Warner Brothers, EUROPEAN VACATION with Chevy Chase and THE RUNNER STUMBLES with Dick Van Dyke, which was director Stanley Kramer's last film. Mr. Eliopoulos won a scholarship award for his "student films" at the University of Kansas that sent him to study film at University of Southern California. He 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. Mr. Eliopoulos 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 member of the Motion Picture Editor's Guild.