Happy new year! The IF team are back on deck. Here's what happened while we were away.
'Oppenheimer' leads the film race for February's AACTA International Awards, while 'Succession' has earned the most nominations in television.
Tony McNamara has reunited with 'The Favourite' director Yorgos Lanthimos for an adaptation of Scottish author Alasdair Gray's Victorian-set satire 'Poor Things', about a fully grown woman who has been implanted with the mind of an infant.
The most nominated titles across feature film and TV at the upcoming Golden Globes are both tied to Australian hopes, with 'Barbie''s Margot Robbie and 'Succession''s Sarah Snook securing nods along with scribe Tony McNamara for 'Poor Things' and Elizabeth Debicki for 'The Crown'.
Whether you're working on an independent film or a series for an global streamer, Marian Macgowan believes a producer's job remains the same: selling a vision, and then realising that vision.
Within just six short years of graduating NIDA’s MFA Writing for Performance course, Gretel Vella has been nominated for an AWGIE, written and co-produced an international series for Hulu, and served as showrunner on her own series.
Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, and Kodi Smit-McPhee have will carry local hopes in the film categories at January's Golden Globes, while Sarah Snook and producer Tony McNamara will fly the flag in the television awards.
Shaun Grant made it three wins in three years at Tuesday's AWGIE Awards, collecting the original feature prize for 'Nitram' to go with his previous film adaptation wins for 'Penguin Bloom' and 'The True History of the Kelly Gang'.