Wednesday's AACTA Awards saw a trifecta for Jennifer Kent, who took home Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay for 'The Nightingale', with star Aisling Franciosi also winning Best Lead Actress.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) will next month bestow actor Sam Neill with its highest honour, the Longford Lyell Award.
Actor, writer, producer and director Sam Neill has been named the recipient of the 2019 Equity New Zealand Lifetime Achievement Award, after being nominated by the Equity board and other Kiwi performers.
Is Todd Phillips’ 'Joker' an enthralling masterpiece or a disturbing and deeply derivative incitement to commit violence? The comic book inspired movie has polarised the critics but audiences in Australia and around the world have voted with their feet.
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' posted the biggest opening of his career in Australia last weekend, emulating its US success.
The head-to-head clash between Universal’s 'Palm Beach' and Transmission Films’ 'Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan' last weekend was far from ideal, but both films are positioned to have leggy runs thanks to word of mouth.
The box office results for the Australian films and feature docs released in cinemas this year underline yet again the deep polarisation in the indie film market between the higher earners and the also-rans.
Gillian Armstrong was 29 when she won the AFI award for best director for her debut feature 'My Brilliant Career', the first local film to be directed by a woman since the McDonagh sisters’ 'Two Minute Silence' in 1933.