Shaun Grant, Tony McNamara, Jacquelin Perke, Andrew Knight, Kate Mulvany and Jan Sardi were among the recipients of the 52nd annual AWGIE Awards presented in Sydney on Thursday night.
Producers Anita Jacoby and Sue Maslin, writers Ray Harding and Bevan Lee and actor Magda Szubanski were among the screen professionals who received Australia Day honours on Saturday.
Michael and Peter Spierig’s supernatural thriller 'Winchester' and Stephen Amis’ comedy' The BBQ' clearly are aimed at different demographics, so that does not explain why neither cut through last weekend.
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'.
Troche is being brought to Sydney by Screen NSW to present at the 360 Vision Virtual Reality lab intensive at Carriageworks on June 7.
Ronan Keating and Magda Szubanski have been announced for the upcoming Mark Lamprell film
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.
Sarah Snook has joined Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, and Eric Bana in the voice cast of Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feature 'Memoir of a Snail'.