Australians have picked up four Oscars at the 2011 Academy Awards
Australian film Samson and Delilah has been shortlisted for the Foreign Language Oscar
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.
"I would have not been able to do 'Dune' without Greig. He was my strongest ally on the set."
Australia might just be in for an Academy Award win come Monday, with 'Love and Monsters' tipped as a dark horse in this year's race for the Visual Effects Oscar.
Hugo leads the way and Aussie editor Kirk Baxter picks up his second consecutive nomination
This year, films shot on Kodak received 60 Oscar nominations, with seven of the nine Best Picture nominees originating on Kodak film
INSIDEFILM speaks to London-based VFX house, Double Negative, about its work on Inception, which has been short-listed for an Oscar