'Safe Home' writer and creator Anna Barnes has beaten out the likes of Warwick Thornton and Tony McNamara to be awarded the $30,000 Betty Roland prize for scriptwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards last night.
Jon Bell's horror debut 'The Moogai' has won the Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Australian Narrative Feature, with Van Alpert's 'Skategoat' taking out the prize for Best Australian Documentary.
Australian productions dominated the children's categories at the International Emmy Awards, with both 'Heartbreak High' and 'Built to Survive' picking up prizes, while 'Harley & Katya' took home the gong for Sports Documentary.
Pioneering Asian-Australian filmmaker Clara Law will preside over the jury for this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), to be held Friday, November 3 at Home of the Arts (HOTA) on Australia’s Gold Coast.
Screenwriter Tony McNamara is Australia's lone individual nominee for this year's Oscars, with Margot Robbie missing out in the lead actress category and instead recognised as a producer on 'Barbie', which is up for Best Motion Picture.
Explorations of evil and entrapment took top honours at Thursday's AWGIE Awards, with Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes' 'Late Night with the Devil' and Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' winning the original and adapted feature prizes, respectively.
Macedonia will put Goran Stolevski's third feature 'Housekeeping for Beginners' forward for the Best International Feature Oscar.
Long-running soap 'Neighbours' has announced itself across the pond, receiving its first Daytime Emmy nomination.