Patricia Lovell is an Australian film producer whose work within the that country's film industry led her to receive the Longford Life Achievement Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute (AFI). One of her productions, Gallipoli, received an AFI Award in 1982 as best film. Two of her earlier films, Break of Day and Monkey Grip, were AFI Best Film nominees.
She has also received producing credits for the following films:
- Tosca: A Tale of Love and Torture (a 2000 made-for-television documentary)
- The Perfectionist (1987)
- Summerfield (1977)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Lovell began her career in radio and television. She was Miss Pat on ABC TV's Mister Squiggle. blank">Transcript of an April 2006 interview on Talking Heads In 1964 she became what she characterized as "one of the minor beauties" on the panel of _Beauty and the Beast. When The Today Show began in 1969) , she joined that show; it was there as an interviewer where she met Peter Weir, the director with whom she would produce her two best-known films, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
