This year's AACTA Award for Best Film will be a contest between Baz Luhrmann’s 'Elvis', George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing', Leah Purcell’s 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson', Thomas M. Wright's 'The Stranger', Western Sydney anthology feature 'Here Out West', and Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' horror 'Sissy'.
Female directors have taken the lion's share of nominations for this year's Australian Directors' Guild awards, with Sian Davies and Stef Smith each securing three nods and their counterparts dominating the feature film categories.
Elvis editing duo Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond are celebrating a double triumph after backing up their Ellie Award for Best Editing in a Feature Drama on Saturday with the AACTA Award for Best Editing in Film on Monday.
After dominating the AACTA Industry Awards on Monday, Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' continued its sweep at the main ceremony, winning another four awards, including Best Film and Best Direction.
Foxtel's courtroom drama 'The Twelve' has led the charge in the nominees for this year's TV Week Logie Awards, receiving nine nods including Most Outstanding Drama Series and Most Popular Drama Program.
Production is headed to Western Australia for the second season of Foxtel's 'The Twelve', marking the largest project to ever shoot in the state.
Composer Rafael May will follow up score for 'The Twelve' with music for Helium's upcoming drama 'Paper Dolls'.
Foxtel was the big winner as the TV Week Logie Awards returned to Sydney for the first time in 37 years on Sunday, with comedy series 'Colin From Accounts' and courtroom drama 'The Twelve' both receiving three awards.