Hacksaw Ridge has received nods in 13 categories – including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Lead Actress and Best Lead Actor.
The additions bring the number of features competing for this year’s AACTA Awards to 28: a record.
The eligible films are A Few Less Men, A Month of Sundays, Beast, Boys in the Trees, Down Under, Early Winter, Embedded, Girl Asleep, Gods of Egypt, Goldstone, Hacksaw Ridge, Joe Cinque's Consolation, Looking for Grace, Pawno, Red Billabong, Scare Campaig
The 6th AACTA Awards Ceremony presented by Presto will be held on December 7 at The Star Event Centre in Sydney. An extended version of the Ceremony will again encore on Foxtel.
Michael Ware and Bill Guttentag’s Only the Dead won three documentary prizes while Mad Max: Fury Road dominated the craft awards at the 5th AACTA Awards honouring screen excellence.
Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker has been nominated in 12 categories at the 5th AACTA Awards, ahead of George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road with 11 and eight for Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin.
AACTA is calling for recommendations for one of the nation's most prized screen excellence awards, the Byron Kennedy Award.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) is switching the awards luncheon which precedes the award ceremony to a night-time event.