Tuesday's Screen Music Awards crowned a slew of first-time winners while honouring the work of composer Nigel Westlake, who received the Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award.
Steve Vidler's 2019 film 'Standing Up For Sunny', which centred on a comedian with cerebral palsy, ignited in the director a passion for bringing stories of people with disability to screen, driving forward his next project, 'Always & Everywhere'.
Members of the Australian music industry gathered to pay tribute to the screen composers who create musical magic behind the scenes for the small and large screen.
Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Antony Partos, Brett Aplin and David Bridie have received three nominations each for the upcoming Screen Music Awards, staged by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGCS).
Martin Armiger, composer or music arranger of such movies as Yahoo Serious' 'Young Einstein', Alex Proyas' 'Dark City' and Kriv Stenders' 'Red Dog', has died in France, aged 70.
"I feel like one of the lucky ones though. As writer and director, I work from home 90 per cent of the time. I’ve been self-isolating for 15 years and my husband is an introvert."
TV dramas 'Fires', 'New Gold Mountain' and 'The Newsreader' each took home two prizes at yesterday evening's virtual AACTA Industry Awards, as did films 'Nitram', 'The Dry', 'Mortal Kombat' and 'High Ground'.
Sally Aitken’s 'Every Little Thing' will follows Jon Bell's 'The Moogai' on the journey from Sundance to SXSW after being added to the latter's Festival Favourites section.