'Oppenheimer' may have battled it out with 'Barbie' at the box office but 'Poor Things' proved its nearest rival at the Oscars.
Australia has two hopes in the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short category next week: 'Red, White and Blue', produced by the US-based Sara McFarlane and 'The After', produced by the UK-based Nicky Bentham. Both producer chat to IF.
Ahead of his spotlight session at next month's Australian International Documentary Conference, Mstyslav Chernov, director of the Oscar-nominated '20 Days in Mariupol', talks to IF about working in a conflict zone, and the differences between news and documentary storytelling, both in terms of craft and impact on the audience.
Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' left the building empty-handed at this year's Oscars, unable to convert any of its eight Oscar nominations.
"Volcanoes are such a perfect metaphor for love." Sara Dosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated 'Fire of Love' and AIDC keynote speaker, talks to IF.
There are only a few extended families that can lay claim to multiple Oscar nominees, but the Villa and Pashley family is one, with both editor Matt Villa and sound designer Wayne Pashley up for 'Elvis'. In this in-depth interview, the pair describe their experiences working with Baz Luhrmann, each other and their craft.
Eight was the lucky number for Australian hopes at this year's Academy Awards nominations, representing not only the tally of nods for Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' but also the amount of times Cate Blanchett has now been up for acting awards.
Peter Weir reflected on the two halves of his career – one in Australia, one in Hollywood – as he...