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AACTA Award For Best Screenplay In Television
The AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). History From 1986 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the award was first introduced, it was handed out as two awards: Mini-Series Screenplay and Telefeature Screenplay. The name was changed to Best Screenplay in a Mini-Series or Television Drama in 1990, and the following year it became Best Screenplay in a Television Drama until 2003 where the award was renamed to its current title. When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Screenplay in Television. AACTA is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the film and television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the U.S. and the BAFTA Awards for the U.K. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA International Awards, inaugurated on 27 January 2012, are presented every January in Los Angeles. History 1958–2010: AFI Awards The awards were presented ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen McCarthy (author)
Maureen McCarthy (b. 1953) is an Australian author. McCarthy grew up on a farm in Homewood, Victoria, and was initially an art teacher in Victorian secondary schools before moving into film. She partnered with Chris Warner to start Trout Films, and produced films such as Eating Your Heart Out a documentary about eating disorders. She co-wrote In Between, a TV drama series for SBS, before turning it into books. She continued to write for TV series such as Ocean Girl and Lift Off. Her books are focused around young adults, and have been shortlisted for numerous awards. Her novel ''Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life'' was published in 1995 and adapted into TV series for ABC TV. The series was produced by her husband Chris Warner. Bibliography * Stay With Me (2015) * The Convent (2012) * When You Wish upon a Rat (2012) * Careful What You Wish for (2010) * Somebody's Crying (2008) * Rose By Any Other Name (2006) * When You Wake and Find Me Gone (2002) * Flash Jack (2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 1989 Australian Film Institute Awards were awards held by the Australian Film Institute to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 1989. The awards ceremony was held at the Palais Theatre The Palais Theatre (originally Palais Pictures) is a historic picture palace located in St Kilda, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. With a capacity of nearly 3,000 people, it is the largest seated theatre in Australia. Replac ... in Melbourne on Wednesday 11 October 1989 and broadcast on ABC-TV. Feature film Television References External links Official AACTA website {{Australian Film Institute Awards AACTA Awards ceremonies 1989 in Australian cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In Australian Television
Below is a list of television-related events in 1989. Events *December 1988 / January – '' Young Talent Time'' was rested by Network Ten during the Cricket / Australian Open season. One week into January 1989 the network announced that the show would not return. Reasons given for YTT's axing are very bad ratings. It was unable to match its rivals from Seven or Nine. *January – Nine Network launches two brand new daytime talk shows: ''In Melbourne Today'' and '' In Sydney Today'', which later merge to become '' Ernie and Denise''. *January – Seven Network purchases the Australian television rights to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for $40 million. *13 January – American police drama series '' Hill Street Blues'' switches over to broadcast on ABC. *25 January – Network Ten debuts a brand new evening drama series: '' E Street'' (1989–1993). *30 January – Network Ten launches a brand new local morning series called ''Til Ten'' (1989–1991) hosted by Andrew Harwood and Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 1988 Australian Film Institute Awards were awards held by the Australian Film Institute to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 1988. Twenty six films were entered for the feature film categories. The 1988 AFI Awards attracted controversy, including for the lack of television broadcast and an Australian Writers' Guild boycott which resulted in the AFI withdrawing the screenplay categories. Cinematographer Russell Boyd received the Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement and director George Ogilvie the Byron Kennedy Award The Byron Kennedy Award is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is "to identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and televisi .... Feature film Television Non-feature film References External links Official AACTA website {{Australian Film Institute Awards AACTA Awards ceremonies 1988 in Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In Australian Television
Events *1 January – ''Australia Live'', a four-hour celebration welcoming a year of celebrations for Australia's bicentennial of European settlement airs on the ABC, SBS, the Nine Network and regional solus stations. It also aired in the U.S. on A&E. *2 January – Imparja starts broadcasting to remote Central Australia via satellite It would have its official launch on 15 January. *17 January – The first episode of ''Home and Away'' one of the longest running Australian TV soaps since ''Neighbours'' airs on Seven Network *24 January – Ten launches ''Richmond Hill'', a Grundy Organisation production, created by Reg Watson. Billed as a sister-soap to ''Neighbours'', it airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 19:30-20:30. *January – Five months after ''Countdowns demise, Molly Meldrum returns to television and joins Nine's ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' as part of the weekly ''Molly's Melodrama'' segment. *18 January – ''A Current Affair'' launches on the Nine Network after a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Noonan
Chris Noonan (born 14 November 1952) is an Australian Film director, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the family film ''Babe (film), Babe'' (1995), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Biography Encouraged by his father, Noonan made his first short film, ''Could It Happen Here?'' set at North Sydney Boys High School when he was sixteen. It won a prize at the Sydney Film Festival and was later screened on Australian television. On leaving school in 1970 Noonan went to work for the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Film Australia), as a production assistant, assistant editor, production manager and assistant director making short films and documentaries. In 1973 Noonan was in the inaugural intake on the directors' course (along with Gillian Armstrong and Phillip Noyce) at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. In 1974 he returned to Film Australia where he worked on a number of films and do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Duigan
John Duigan (born 19 June 1949) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his two autobiographical films ''The Year My Voice Broke'' and ''Flirting'', and the 1994 film ''Sirens'', which stars Hugh Grant. Biography Duigan was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England to an Australian father, and emigrated to Australia in 1961. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelist Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan studied at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated in 1973 with a master's degree in Philosophy. While at university, he worked extensively as an actor and director in theatre, and acted in a number of films (including ''Brake Fluid'', ''Bonjour Balwyn'' and ''Dalmas''). He began directing films in 1974, with early successes including '' Mouth to Mouth'', winner of the Jury Prize at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes (born 8 October 1951) is an English-born Australian screenwriter, producer and author best known for his work with the Kennedy Miller film production house and his debut novel ''I Am Pilgrim''. Biography Born in Sussex, England, Hayes moved to Australia at the age of 5. He began his career as a journalist, working as the US correspondent for the Australian newspaper ''The'' ''Sydney Morning Herald''. Family Terry was married in 1999 and has one son Connor. Kennedy Miller After periods spent as an investigative reporter, columnist and radio show host, Hayes met director George Miller when he did the novelisation of the script to ''Mad Max'' (1979). He and Miller got on well and the director subsequently hired Hayes to help on the script for ''Mad Max 2'' (1981).David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p82 Hayes subsequently became an in-house writer for Kennedy Miller, working on the scripts fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam (miniseries)
''Vietnam'' is a 1987 Australian TV mini-series directed by Chris Noonan and John Duigan. It stars Barry Otto, Nicole Kidman and Nicholas Eadie. The series won the Logie Award for Most Popular Single Telemovie or Miniseries. Plot Set in the 1960s through to the early 1970s, ''Vietnam'' is a mini-series about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war. The Goddard family live in Canberra – Public servant Douglas, Evelyn (Veronica Lang) and their son Phil and daughter Megan. Aged 15, Megan is now a rebellious teenager, infuriating her conservative parents whilst her older sibling Phil is a budding photographer. Australia joins the war in Vietnam and the strains and stresses it places on the Goddard family mirror the political and social upheavals the country experiences in the 1960s. Phil is called up in the national draft and he reluctantly goes to do his duty with Australian army forces in Vietnam. He encounters the harsh realities of the war when the platoon walks into a minef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
