Director Benjamin Gilmour's 'Jirga' took home the inaugural AACTA Award for Best Indie Film - designed to honour films made under $2 million - at the AACTA Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
Nicole Kidman, Simon Baker, Deborah Mailman, Bruce Beresford, Nash Edgerton, Celia Pacquola, Aaron Pedersen, Tina Bursill, Wayne Blair and Leah Purcell are among the nominees who will attend the 2018 AACTA Awards in Sydney on December 5.
AACTA is calling for recommendations for the Byron Kennedy Award which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the screen industry.
For the first time, ten documentaries are in competition for the AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.
Reflecting the introduction of the best new indie film prize, a record 38 feature films will compete at this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards.
Emerging and experimental filmmakers who have long felt it is unfair that their low-budget works compete with far bigger Australian films in the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have won their argument.
A total of 15 films will duke it out at next year’s AACTA International Awards, with Luca Guadagnino’s 'Call Me By Your Name', Greta Gerwig’s 'Lady Bird' and Martin McDonagh’s 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' leading the pack with five nominations each.
Garth Davis’ debut feature 'Lion' was the pride of this year’s AACTA Awards, winning in each of the 12 categories it was nominated, including Best Film and Best Direction.