After dominating the AACTA Industry Awards on Monday, Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' continued its sweep at the main ceremony, winning another four awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.
Elvis editing duo Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond are celebrating a double triumph after backing up their Ellie Award for Best Editing in a Feature Drama on Saturday with the AACTA Award for Best Editing in Film on Monday.
It seems AACTA voters couldn't help falling in love with the craft behind Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis', with the film picking up seven out of a possible 10 gongs at the Industry Awards - including a history-making cinematography win for Mandy Walker.
Radio and television personality Amanda Keller will host this Wednesday's AACTA Awards ceremony, with an array of international and domestic talent confirmed to attend.
This year’s AACTA Screenfest will see director Bruce Beresford and cinematographer Don McAlpine present the classic 'Breaker Morant'; editor Matt Villa talk about his work on Elvis, and producer Tom Hoffie and creator and showrunner Paddy McCrae discuss their upcoming Netflix series, Irreverent.
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'.
AACTA has announced the nominees for its technical craft awards, with Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' leading the charge in film, nominated in all nine categories, while 'Mystery Road: Origin' is ahead in television with six nods.
The box office had a much-needed refresh last weekend by way of Julia Roberts and George Clooney rom-com 'Ticket to Paradise' and 'DC League of Super-Pets', and to a lesser extent, 'Moonage Daydream' and 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'.