The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts has announced Rose Byrne as the first recipient of its newly created award - the AACTA Trailblazer Award.
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner tied for best film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards in Sydney.
Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Kieran Darcy-Smith and Vince Vaughn are among the judges for this year’s Heath Ledger scholarship.
AACTA winner and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne will lead a new Australian all-female production company.
Rising young actors who've appeared in Unbroken, The Water Diviner, Deadline Gallipoli, ANZAC Girls and The Code are among the finalists for the 7th annual Heath Ledger Scholarship.
Margot Robbie, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh Lawson, Ewen Leslie and Damon Herriman are also onboard.
Geoffrey Rush, Rose Byrne and George Miller will be among those presenting at the 6th AACTA Awards in Sydney next week.
The film was set to feature 72 Outback animal characters, all of them speaking in an Australian accent, and the project had attracted a stellar Australian cast, with Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Josh