The Hunter has lead the Aacta Awards with 14 nominations including best film.
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
The film, by Daniel Nettheim, is also up for best direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound, production design, costume, original music score, and visual effects. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill and Morgana Davies are all up for acting awards.
The film has currently made just over $1m at the local box office.
It’s the first year for the re-launched AACTAs, formerly the AFI awards.
The technical awards will be given out at a luncheon on 15 January at the Sydney Opera House, with an evening ceremony for the more ‘public-friendly’ awards held at the Opera House on 31 January.
Running against The Hunter for best film is Red Dog, Mad Bastards, The Eye of the Storm, Snowtown and Oranges and Sunshine.
The Eye of the Storm, was second in the nominations race with 12, of which six are...
- 11/30/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Best director Stenders
Australian box office hit Red Dog dominated tonight’s If Awards picking up seven trophies, including the major categories of best feature, best director for Kriv Stenders and best actor for Josh Lucas.
The winners:
Best Feature Film
Red Dog
Director: Kriv Stenders
Best Direction
Red Dog
Kriv Stenders
Producer: Nelson Woss & Julie Ryan
Best Actor
Josh Lucas
Red Dog
Best Actress
Emily Watson Oranges and Sunshine
Best Script
Red Dog
Daniel Taplitz
Best Cinematography
Red Dog
Geoff Hall
Best Box Office Achievement
Red Dog
Best Music
Red Dog
Cezary Skubiszewski
Best Music Video
Magic by Olivia Newton-John and Wacci
Director: Dan Murphy
Producer: Wacci
Best Short Documentary
Umoja: No Men Allowed
Director: Elizabeth Tadic
Producer: Elizabeth Tadic & Selene Alcock
Best Sound
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Wayne Pashley, Polly McKimm, Derryn Pasquill, Fabian Sanjurjo
Best Short Film
Whenthe Wind Changes
Director: Alethea Jones...
Australian box office hit Red Dog dominated tonight’s If Awards picking up seven trophies, including the major categories of best feature, best director for Kriv Stenders and best actor for Josh Lucas.
The winners:
Best Feature Film
Red Dog
Director: Kriv Stenders
Best Direction
Red Dog
Kriv Stenders
Producer: Nelson Woss & Julie Ryan
Best Actor
Josh Lucas
Red Dog
Best Actress
Emily Watson Oranges and Sunshine
Best Script
Red Dog
Daniel Taplitz
Best Cinematography
Red Dog
Geoff Hall
Best Box Office Achievement
Red Dog
Best Music
Red Dog
Cezary Skubiszewski
Best Music Video
Magic by Olivia Newton-John and Wacci
Director: Dan Murphy
Producer: Wacci
Best Short Documentary
Umoja: No Men Allowed
Director: Elizabeth Tadic
Producer: Elizabeth Tadic & Selene Alcock
Best Sound
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Wayne Pashley, Polly McKimm, Derryn Pasquill, Fabian Sanjurjo
Best Short Film
Whenthe Wind Changes
Director: Alethea Jones...
- 11/16/2011
- by Tim Burrowes
- Encore Magazine
Alex Lloyd and Pigram Brothers, Jed Kurzel, David Hirschfelder, David McCormack and The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor are among the nominees for the 2011 Screen Music Awards.
The 2011 Screen Music Awards are jointly presented by Apra (Australiasian Performing Rights Association) and Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers).
In the category of the feature film score of the year, Alex Lloyd and Alan and Stephen Pigram are nominated for Mad Bastards alongside Jed Kurzel of rock band the Mess Hall, and brother of director Justin Kurzel is nominated for Snowtown. Past winner David Hirschfelder (Children of the Silk Road) is nominated for The Legend of the Guardians while Burkhard Dallwitz is nominated for The Way Back.
Dallwitz is also nominated for Underbelly Files: tell them Lucifer was here in the Best music for a mini-series or telemovie alongside Guy Gross for East West 101, Bryony Marks for Cloudstreet and...
The 2011 Screen Music Awards are jointly presented by Apra (Australiasian Performing Rights Association) and Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers).
In the category of the feature film score of the year, Alex Lloyd and Alan and Stephen Pigram are nominated for Mad Bastards alongside Jed Kurzel of rock band the Mess Hall, and brother of director Justin Kurzel is nominated for Snowtown. Past winner David Hirschfelder (Children of the Silk Road) is nominated for The Legend of the Guardians while Burkhard Dallwitz is nominated for The Way Back.
Dallwitz is also nominated for Underbelly Files: tell them Lucifer was here in the Best music for a mini-series or telemovie alongside Guy Gross for East West 101, Bryony Marks for Cloudstreet and...
- 10/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A mad bastard is the person who drags the net in the deep end, where the crocodiles are… brave to the point of being mad. You could say that a mad bastard is also someone who decides to make a film starting with the actors instead of the script. That would be Brendan Fletcher, with his first feature, Mad Bastards.
The seeds of Mad Bastards can be traced back to 1996, when Fletcher first met musicians Alan and Stephen Pigram, as well as the rest of the family music band The Pigram Brothers. In return for a fishing trip in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, he directed a couple of videos for them.
Over the years they developed a strong personal and professional bond, creating documentaries and even a 10-minute drama called Kulli Foot, which aired on the ABC. That project also put them in touch with David Jowsey, an...
The seeds of Mad Bastards can be traced back to 1996, when Fletcher first met musicians Alan and Stephen Pigram, as well as the rest of the family music band The Pigram Brothers. In return for a fishing trip in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, he directed a couple of videos for them.
Over the years they developed a strong personal and professional bond, creating documentaries and even a 10-minute drama called Kulli Foot, which aired on the ABC. That project also put them in touch with David Jowsey, an...
- 5/2/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Every year, fewer and fewer Australian films and television shows are releasing soundtrack albums. Once considered a valuable promotional tool, changes in both the screen and music industries are threatening their existence. Aravind Balasubramaniam reports.
It is a sign of the times when the #1 Australian film of the year, aimed at a young demographic, chooses not to release a soundtrack album. Ten years ago, it would have been seen as an excellent opportunity to promote both the film and a record company’s selection of up and coming bands, but in 2010 Omnilab Media’s Tomorrow, When the War Began was only released a single on iTunes.
“When you walk into a record store that used to have a soundtrack section, it has become highly evident that the section has shrunk remarkably over the last few years” said Underbelly score composer Burkhard Dallwitz.
ABC Music is the label that has published...
It is a sign of the times when the #1 Australian film of the year, aimed at a young demographic, chooses not to release a soundtrack album. Ten years ago, it would have been seen as an excellent opportunity to promote both the film and a record company’s selection of up and coming bands, but in 2010 Omnilab Media’s Tomorrow, When the War Began was only released a single on iTunes.
“When you walk into a record store that used to have a soundtrack section, it has become highly evident that the section has shrunk remarkably over the last few years” said Underbelly score composer Burkhard Dallwitz.
ABC Music is the label that has published...
- 4/28/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
By Brendan Fletcher (writer-director of “Mad Bastards”)
Brendan Fletcher
I spent a lot of time in the “frontier” region of Australia making documentaries and short films over the last 15 years. The people, the landscape and just the harshness of the place — it is just all so cinematic, and I decided fairly early on that I wanted to bring the amazing experiences I’d had and the feeling I’d felt to the big screen.
The northwest of Australia (called the “Kimberley”) is a wide open land on the edge of the desert, and its main industry is cattle. So just like the Wild West in the U.S., it’s basically cowboy country. But right alongside the cowboy thing, the aboriginal culture of tens of thousands of years ago is thriving too. So what you’ve got is a region that feels like you’re walking around in a Western...
Brendan Fletcher
I spent a lot of time in the “frontier” region of Australia making documentaries and short films over the last 15 years. The people, the landscape and just the harshness of the place — it is just all so cinematic, and I decided fairly early on that I wanted to bring the amazing experiences I’d had and the feeling I’d felt to the big screen.
The northwest of Australia (called the “Kimberley”) is a wide open land on the edge of the desert, and its main industry is cattle. So just like the Wild West in the U.S., it’s basically cowboy country. But right alongside the cowboy thing, the aboriginal culture of tens of thousands of years ago is thriving too. So what you’ve got is a region that feels like you’re walking around in a Western...
- 1/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Brendan Fletcher (writer-director of “Mad Bastards”)
Brendan Fletcher
I spent a lot of time in the “frontier” region of Australia making documentaries and short films over the last 15 years. The people, the landscape and just the harshness of the place — it is just all so cinematic, and I decided fairly early on that I wanted to bring the amazing experiences I’d had and the feeling I’d felt to the big screen.
The northwest of Australia (called the “Kimberley”) is a wide open land on the edge of the desert, and its main industry is cattle. So just like the Wild West in the U.S., it’s basically cowboy country. But right alongside the cowboy thing, the aboriginal culture of tens of thousands of years ago is thriving too. So what you’ve got is a region that feels like you’re walking around in a Western...
Brendan Fletcher
I spent a lot of time in the “frontier” region of Australia making documentaries and short films over the last 15 years. The people, the landscape and just the harshness of the place — it is just all so cinematic, and I decided fairly early on that I wanted to bring the amazing experiences I’d had and the feeling I’d felt to the big screen.
The northwest of Australia (called the “Kimberley”) is a wide open land on the edge of the desert, and its main industry is cattle. So just like the Wild West in the U.S., it’s basically cowboy country. But right alongside the cowboy thing, the aboriginal culture of tens of thousands of years ago is thriving too. So what you’ve got is a region that feels like you’re walking around in a Western...
- 1/26/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which they awarded with a record breaking 18 nominations. Sure, the film is in danger of being way overhyped for people who are coming to it late (which is just about everyone given the sorry state of international distribution for dramas of virtually any kind) but for those who can slough off the "omg" raves, I guarantee you'll think it at least an insinuating and well executed crime drama.
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute Awards, followed by Beneath Hill 60 (12), Bright Star (11), Tomorrow, When the War Began (8), The Tree, Bran Nue Dae (7 each) and The Boys Are Back (4)
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
- 10/27/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
"Bran Nue Dae" starring Geoffrey Rush, will be distributed on U.S. soil via Freestyle Releasing. The Australian musical will see a platform release in September and then followed by a nationwide rollout. Film is based on a successful Australian stage musical and helmed by Rachel Perkins ("One Night the Moon"). The story follows the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple. Also starring are Jessica Mauboy (2008 "Australian Idol" winner), Magda Szubanski, Rocky Mackenzie and Missy Higgins. Musical is a hit in Australia and premiered in the U.S. at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Perkins and Reg Cribb co-wrote. Music is by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram. Robyn Kershaw produced.
- 6/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Freestyle Releasing will distribute the Australian musical "Bran Nue Dae," starring Geoffrey Rush, in the U.S. It will begin with a platform release in September, followed by a nationwide rollout.
Its marketing will be overseen by Cinemarket's Peter D. Graves in conjunction with specialized film veteran Steven Raphael's Required Viewing.
Based on a successful Australian stage musical, the movie, directed by Rachel Perkins, revolves around the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple.
Along with Rush, it stars Jessica Mauboy (winner of the 2008 edition of "Australian Idol"), Rocky Mackenzie, Magda Szubanski and singer-songwriter Missy Higgins.
A hit at the Australian boxoffice, the indigenous musical has grossed more than $7.5 million. It had its U.S. premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Financed by Omnilab Media, "Dae" was co-written by Perkins and Reg Cribb and features music by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram.
Its marketing will be overseen by Cinemarket's Peter D. Graves in conjunction with specialized film veteran Steven Raphael's Required Viewing.
Based on a successful Australian stage musical, the movie, directed by Rachel Perkins, revolves around the romantic adventures of a young Aboriginal couple.
Along with Rush, it stars Jessica Mauboy (winner of the 2008 edition of "Australian Idol"), Rocky Mackenzie, Magda Szubanski and singer-songwriter Missy Higgins.
A hit at the Australian boxoffice, the indigenous musical has grossed more than $7.5 million. It had its U.S. premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Financed by Omnilab Media, "Dae" was co-written by Perkins and Reg Cribb and features music by Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, Patrick Suttoo Bin Amat, Michael Manolis Mavromatis and Stephen Pigram.
- 6/22/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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