Director Ben Chessell's career has hit a sweet spot with his crime thriller series 'Giri/Haji' premiering on Friday on Netflix worldwide except in the UK, where it screened on BBC Two late last year.
Writer/directors have dominated the feature film categories for this year's AWGIE Awards, which will be presented in Sydney next month.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won seven prizes at the BAFTA Awards in London on Sunday, including original screenplay for Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis, and production design for Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton.
Richard Roxburgh is playing Grigory Orlov, a former lover of the 18th Century Russian Empress in the HBO/Sky UK miniseries Catherine the Great.
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.
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.
Screenwriter Tony McNamara is Australia's lone individual nominee for this year's Oscars, with Margot Robbie missing out in the lead actress category and instead recognised as a producer on 'Barbie', which is up for Best Motion Picture.
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.