This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
The writers of 'All Is True', 'Hotel Mumbai', 'Relic', 'Ride Like a Girl' and 'The Favourite' have been nominated for best original feature film in the 52nd annual AWGIE Awards.
The screen industry needs to stop cutting writers' fees and to do a lot better in providing career paths for writers, according to Guesswork Television MD Kevin Whyte.
Not only does Charlie Pickering have a new show launching on ABC in April, it now has a name: The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.