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Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian representatives from international magazines..and local specialist film magazines", and is based in Sydney. The FCCA Annual Awards for Australian Film, rewarding makers of feature films and documentaries is highly regarded. History The Sydney Film Critics' Circle became a national organisation as the Film Critics' Circle of Australia by October 1988. It joined International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), "which will allow its members to be considered for jury duty at international festivals, accreditation at festivals and markets." The FCCA Awards have been presented each year since September 1988, with the inaugural winners including two awards each for ''The Year My Voice Broke'': best director (John Duigan) and best male a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Journalism, journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets; and academic criticism by film scholars who are informed by film theory and are published in academic journals. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre or in the whole of History of film, film history. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being developed, and journalistic criticism resides in standard structures su ... [...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] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2011
19th FCCA Awards 13 March 2011 ---- Best Film: Animal Kingdom The 19th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, honoring the best in films from 2010, were presented on 13 March 2011 at North Sydney Leagues Club in Cammeray, New South Wales and hosted by Rod Quinn. The nominees were announced on 8 February 2011 with '' Animal Kingdom'' receiving ten nominations. ''Animal Kingdom'' won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director. Winners Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Best Film *'' Animal Kingdom'' – Liz Watts *''Beneath Hill 60'' – Bill Leimbach *''Bran Nue Dae'' – Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac *''Tomorrow, When the War Began'' – Andrew Mason, Michael Boughen *''The Waiting City'' – Jamie Hilton, Claire McCarthy Best Director *David Michôd – ''Animal Kingdom'' *Stuart Beattie – ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'' *Claire McCarthy – ''The Waiting City'' *Rachel Perkins – ''Bran Nue Dae'' *Jeremy Sims – ''Beneath Hill 60'' Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2006
The 15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2006, honoured the best in film for 2006. Winners Best Film *''Ten Canoes'' ( Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan) Best Director * Ray Lawrence (''Jindabyne'') Best Actress *Abbie Cornish (''Candy'') Best Actor *Shane Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Original Screenplay *Shane Jacobson and Clayton Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Adapted Screenplay * Beatrix Christian (''Jindabyne'') Best Cinematography *Ian Jones, Ten Canoes David Williamson (''Jindabyne'') Best Editing * Tania Nehme (''Ten Canoes'') Best Actor — Supporting Role *Geoffrey Rush (''Candy'') Best Actress — Supporting Role *Deborra-Lee Furness (''Jindabyne') Best Music Score: *Cezary Skubiszewski (''The Book of Revelation'') Best Foreign Language Film *'' Caché (Hidden)'' (Director: Michael Haneke, France) Best Foreign Film – English Language *'' Good Night, and Good Luck.'' (Director: George Clooney) Best Australian Short Film *'' Stranded'' (dir: Stuart McDonald; Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2005
15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 14 November 2005 ---- Best Film: ---- Best Foreign Film - English language: The 15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, given on 14 November 2005, honored the best in film for 2005. Winners *Best Actor: **William McInnes - '' Look Both Ways'' *Best Actress: **Cate Blanchett - '' Little Fish'' *Best Australian Feature Documentary: **''Rash'' *Best Australian Short Documentary: **'' Girl in a Mirror'' *Best Australian Short Film: **''Jewboy'' *Best Cinematography: **'' The Proposition'' - Benoît Delhomme *Best Director: **Sarah Watt - ''Look Both Ways'' *Best Editor: ** Denise Haratzis - ''Look Both Ways'' *Best Film: **''Look Both Ways'' *Best Foreign Film – English Language: **'' Million Dollar Baby'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)'', Spain *Best Musical Score: **'' The Proposition'' - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis *Best Screenplay - Adapted: **''Three Dollars'' - Robert Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2004
The 14th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, given on 7 November 2004, in Sydney, which honoured the best in film for 2004. Winners Credits: * Best Film: ''Somersault'' produced by Anthony Anderson * Best Director: Cate Shortland for ''Somersault'' * Best Cinematography: Robert Humphreys for ''Somersault'' * Best Editor: Ken Sallows for '' Tom White'' * Best Actor – Lead Role: Colin Friels for ''Tom White'' * Best Actress – Lead Role: Abbie Cornish for ''Somersault'' * Best Actor – Supporting Role: Dan Spielman for ''Tom White'' * Best Actress – Supporting Role: Lynette Curran for ''Somersault'' * Best Screenplay – Adapted: Rolf de Heer for ''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories'' * Best Screenplay – Original: Daniel Keene for ''Tom White'' * Best Music Score: David Hobson, Josh Abrahams, Lisa Gerrard for '' One Perfect Day'' * Best Foreign Film - English Language: Lost in Translation directed by Sofia Coppola * Best Foreign Language Film: ''The Barbarian Invas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer. She is married to actor Hugh Jackman. Early life Furness was born in Annandale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 18, Furness attended secretarial school to learn shorthand and typing after her mother advised her to have a back-up career if her acting ambitions didn't eventuate to anything. She then got a job as the assistant to John Sorell, the news director at Channel 9. Despite describing herself as "such a bog secretary", Furness has said she thoroughly enjoyed the urgency, the fast action and the high energy of the newsroom. After working in the newsroom for a year, Furness was asked to work on ''No Man's Land'', the station's daytime current affairs program which produced exclusively by women and hosted by Mickie de Stoop. Furness started working on the show as a researcher before becoming an on-air reporter. After her work at Channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shame (1988 Film)
''Shame'' is a 1988 Australian drama film directed by Steve Jodrell and written by Beverly Blankenship and Michael Brindley. Deborra-Lee Furness stars as Asta, a barrister from Perth on a solo motorcycle trip through the Australian countryside. After damaging her bike she is forced to stay in a rural town while waiting for replacement parts. While there, she learns of the unsettling nature of the town, where the residents turn a blind eye to the young men's constant harassments and sexual assault of the town's young women. Plot After her motorbike breaks down during a lone tour of outback Western Australia, vacationing barrister Asta Cadell is forced to stay in the small fictitious township of Ginborak while she waits for replacement parts. On arriving in the town, she immediately receives catcalls and sexually suggestive comments from many of the town's men. The town's sergeant, Wal Cuddy, dismisses her concerns and suggests that she not stay in the town long. Cadell arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British-born Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in '' Shine'', Locke in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', Darby Sabini in the BBC One series ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr. Bucket in ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and Danny in the Australian cult film ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand''. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series ''Preacher'' and the 2002 film '' Max''. Early life Taylor, elder of two sons, was born in London to Australian parents, Maggie (née Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St Kilda, suburbs of Melbourne. After performing in plays at St Martins Youth Arts Centre in South Yarra for a year, he gained the attention of director John Duigan, who cast him in the 1987 film ''The Year My Voice Broke'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Year My Voice Broke
''The Year My Voice Broke'' is a 1987 Australian coming of age drama film written and directed by John Duigan and starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen and Ben Mendelsohn. Set in 1962 in the rural Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, it was the first in a projected trilogy of films centred on the experiences of an awkward Australian boy, based on the childhood of writer/director John Duigan. The film itself is a series of interconnected segments narrated by Danny who recollects how he and his best friend Freya grew apart over the course of one year. Although the trilogy never came to fruition, it was followed by a 1991 sequel, ''Flirting (film), Flirting''. The film was the recipient of the 1987 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, a prize which ''Flirting'' also won in 1990. Plot In 1962 in rural New South Wales, Australia, Danny is a thin, socially awkward 15-year-old boy who has been best friends with Freya since childhood. Freya was adopted as a baby; as a result, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Review
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets; and academic criticism by film scholars who are informed by film theory and are published in academic journals. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre or in the whole of film history. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being developed, and journalistic criticism resides in standard structures such as newspapers. Journal art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Federation Of Film Critics
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium. At present it has members in more than 50 countries worldwide. In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIPRESCI announced that it will not participate in festivals and other events organized by the Russian government and its offices, and canceled a colloquium in St. Petersburg, that was to make it familiar with new Russian films. FIPRESCI Award The FIPRESCI often gives out awards during film festivals (such as at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
