Writer/directors have dominated the feature film categories for this year's AWGIE Awards, which will be presented in Sydney next month.
AACTA has announced the remaining nominations for its February awards, with Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy' garnering the most nods in film with 12, closely followed by 'Talk to Me' with 11, while with 15 nominations, 'The Newsreader' is the most recognised TV series.
Michael Yezerski was a double winner last night's Screen Music Awards, while Benjamin Speed took out Feature Film Score of the Year for 'The Portable Door'.
Robert Connolly's 'Blueback' and Richard Cussó and Tania Vincent’s animated fantasy feature 'Scarygirl' are among the nominees for this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, included in Best Animated Film and Best Youth Film categories, respectively.
The records smashed by doco 'John Farnham: Finding the Voice' have proven that Australians will still come out in numbers to see local stories on the big screen, and there is significant optimism among exhibitors about the commercial potential of 'Force of Nature: The Dry 2'. However, broadly the year so far has been a very slow one for Australian films at the box office.
When Chanel Bowen read the results of the recent University of Melbourne report 'Disability and Screen Work in Australia', she was surprised – not at the findings, but that there were not more disabled people reporting discrimination.
'Avatar: The Way of Water' has proved the bumper summer hit exhibitors hoped it would be. Some four weekends in, the James Cameron sequel - with a cume of $66.7 million - is already the the sixth highest grossing film to ever be released in Australia.
Disney's 'Avatar: The Way of Water' absolutely dominated cinemas in its opening weekend, capturing an 87 per cent market share.