ABC chair Ita Buttrose, actors Hugh Jackman, Sigrid Thornton, Eric Bana and Peter Cousens, director and cinematographer Ray Argall, and producers Suzanne Baker, Kerry Heysen-Hicks and Fiona Cochrane were among the screen professionals to receive Queen's Birthday Honours over the long weekend.
Ray Argall will be the 2018 recipient of the Australian Directors’ Guild Cecil Holmes Award, a prize designed to recognise those who have advocated for the role of the director.
The Australian Directors Guild has announced the recipients of
the three non-competitive ADG awards for 2008: Bruce Petty will receive
the ADG Outstanding Achievement Award; Tom Zubrycki will receive the
Cecil Holmes Award and Kate Woods will receive t
Australian Directors' Guild president Ray Argal has responded to the damaging allegations made by Australian Writer's Guild executive director Jacqueline Woodman about the ADG earlier this week.