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AACTA Award For Best Screenplay, Original Or Adapted
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1967. In 2011, it was changed to the AACTA Awards. While the category of Best Screenplay is given out in two different forms (Original or Adapted), some years involved the AACTA Awards handing out both types of screenplays in the same ceremony. The winners and nominees for those few years are listed below. Winners and nominees External links *AACTA Awards *AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay *AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay The AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), for an Australian screenplay "written directly and originally for the screen". Prior to the establishment of the A ... References {{Australian Film Institute Awards AACTA Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Film Institute 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 United States and the BAFTA Awards for the United Kingdom. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Club (1980 Film)
''The Club'' is a satirical film based on the play of the same name by the Australian playwright and dramatist David Williamson. It follows the fortunes of an Australian rules football club over the course of a season, and explores the clashes of individuals from within the club. It was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Victorian Football League's Collingwood Football Club. The film was produced in 1980, written by Williamson and directed by Bruce Beresford. It stars John Howard, Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy and Frank Wilson. The film was described as a "hilarious, sharply observed slice of life". The film features Mike Brady's 1979 football anthem " Up There Cazaly". Plot The club pays a high price for Tasmanian recruit, Geoff Hayward (Howard). Geoff does not play well initially, infuriating the dedicated coach, Laurie Holden (Thompson). With the club playing so badly, Laurie's coaching days may be over soon. Club president Ted Parker (Kennedy) is forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Of The Never Never (film)
''We of the Never Never'' is a 1982 Australian drama film directed by Igor Auzins and starring Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, John Jarratt, and Tony Barry. It is based on the 1908 autobiographical novel ''We of the Never Never'' by Jeannie Gunn. It was nominated for five AACTA Awards, AFI awards and earned one award for best cinematography. Plot The film focuses on the life of Jeannie, an educated woman from the upper-middle class of society, and her story of adapting to life in the outback of Australia. Following her marriage to Aeneas Gunn who has just been made manager of a 5,334 square kilometre (2,059 sq mi) cattle station near Mataranka, Northern Territory, Mataranka, called Elsey Station, Jeannie follows him from Melbourne in 1902. Some of the drovers are unhappy at first because they believe that the bush is no place for a white woman. They are wary of her and make fun of her when she and her husband arrive. However, Jeannie is determined to prove them wrong. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sardi
Jan Vittorio Sardi (born 1953) is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997, he was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for ''Shine (film), Shine''. He wrote and directed the 2004 film ''Love's Brother''. He adapted the novel by Nicholas Sparks for ''The Notebook'' (2004). Sardi also adapted Li Cunxin's memoir for the film ''Mao's Last Dancer (film), Mao's Last Dancer'' (2009) and the miniseries ''The Secret River (TV series), The Secret River'' (co-written with Mac Gudgeon), based on the novel by Kate Grenville. Writer * ''Moving Out (film), Moving Out'' (1983) * ''Street Hero'' (1984) * ''Breakaway (1990 film), Breakaway'' (1990) * ''Mission: Impossible (1988 TV series), Mission: Impossible'' (1990) (S2E30: “Deadly Harvest) * ''Halifax f.p.'' (1995) (S1E3: “Lies of the Mind) * ''Shine (film), Shine'' (1996) * ''Love's Brother'' (2004) (also director) * ''The Notebook'' (2004) (adapted n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moving Out (film)
''Moving Out'' is a 1983 film about a young Italian-Australian adolescent in Melbourne directed by Michael Pattinson. Pattinson met Jan Sardi, who was a school teacher wanting to move into writing. They discussed making the movie as a 50-minute film and it evolved into a feature. Most of the money was raised privately except for $50,000 from the Australian Film Commission.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p359-360 The movie was shot over six weeks in various schools in inner Melbourne. It was shot on 16 mm and blown up to 35mm. Story Gino Condello (Vince Colosimo) is an Italian Australian high school student in the inner suburb of Fitzroy in Melbourne. Gino's best mate is the hyperactive class clown Renato (Maurice Devincentis) and the pair like to hang around in a wrecked car in a derelict lot with bogan, mullet-decorated Allan (Tibor Gyapjas), and blonde Sandy (Sally Cooper) who is infatuated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print. He is principally known for his character Fred Dagg and his long-running collaboration with fellow satirist Bryan Dawe, which lasted from 1989 to his death in 2017, as well as for his success as a comic actor in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Early life and career Clarke was born on 29 July 1948 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of Ted Clarke and Neva Clarke-McKenna. He moved to Wellington and attended Scots College before studying at Victoria University of Wellington between 1967 and 1970. Clarke first became known during the mid to late 1970s for portraying a laconic farmer called Fred Dagg on stage, film and television. Gumboot and singlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cox (director)
Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox (16 April 194018 June 2016), known as Paul Cox, was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker who has been recognised as "Australia's most prolific film auteur". Background Cox was born to Else (née Kuminack), a German, and father Wim Cox, on 16 April 1940, in Venlo, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the Netherlands," Cinema has been 'abused horrifically'" Matthew Hays and Martin Siberok, ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 September 2000 after his brother (also named Wim) and sister Elizabeth, and was the older sibling of sisters Jacoba, Angeline and Christa. Father, Wim Cox A documentary film producer and son of the publisher of the Catholic newspaper ''Nieuwe Venlosche Courant'', Cox senior in 1933 launched the lavishly illustrated, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Hearts (1982 Film)
''Lonely Hearts'' is a 1982 Australian film directed by Paul Cox which won the 1982 AFI Award for Best Film and was nominated in four other categories. Plot Shortly after the death of his mother, middle-aged, Peter, realizes how lonely he is. Hoping to find adventure, he signs on with a dating agency in search of a companion. Soon, Peter is introduced to a shy bank clerk Patricia. Patricia is younger than Peter, but is also lonely, having endured smothering parents. Cast * Wendy Hughes as Patricia Curnow * Norman Kaye as Peter Thompson * Jon Finlayson as George * Julia Blake as Pamela * Jonathan Hardy as Bruce * Irene Inescort as Patricia's mother * Vic Gordon as Patricia's father * Ted Grove-Rogers as Peter's father * Maurie Fields as Taxi Driver * Pepe Trevor Production Paul Cox wrote the first two drafts, then Phillip Adams proposed the movie be the first of four films made by the Adams-Packer company. John Clarke was brought in to co-write and John Murray became pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denny Lawrence
Denny Lawrence (born 1951 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, writer, producer and director of television, theatre and film. He studied at NIDA and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Among his most notable credits are the feature film '' Goodbye Paradise'' (1983) and the mini-series ''Bodyline'' (1984). He has also worked extensively as a teacher. Select credits Films *''The Outing'' – short *'' Goodbye Paradise'' (1983) – co-writer *''Emoh Ruo'' (1985) – director *''The Coca-Cola Kid'' (1985) – additional dialogue *''Archer'' (1986) – director *''Army Wives'' (1986) – director *'' Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train'' (1987) – co-writer *''Afraid to Dance'' (1988) – director *'' Rainbow's End'' (1995) – director *''A Divided Heart'' (2008) – director TV series * '' Scattergood: Friend of All'' (1975) *''The Young Doctors'' (1979–80) – director *''The Restless Years'' – director *'' Sons and Daughters'' (1982–83) – director *''Bodyli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye Paradise
''Goodbye Paradise'' is a 1983 Australian film directed by Carl Schultz starring Ray Barrett. It has been called "the greatest Queensland film ever made." Premise On Queensland's Gold Coast, a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey, is writing a long-delayed book exposing police corruption. To make some money he accepts a job from an old acquaintance, Senator McCredie, to locate the senator's missing daughter Kathy. He encounters a series of unusual characters, including members of the Queensland secession movement and a cult led by Stacey's old army friend Todd. Cast *Ray Barrett as Michael Stacy *Paul Chubb as Curly * Guy Doleman as Quiney *Kate Fitzpatrick as Mrs. McCreadie *Lex Marinos as Con *Robyn Nevin as Kate *Don Pascoe as Senator McCredie *Janet Scrivener as Kathy * John Clayton as Todd * Frank Gallacher as Keith * Carole Skinner as Landlady * Grant Dodwell as Seaworld boy Production Development The idea of doing a Raymond Chandler-type story set on the Gold Coast ca ... [...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 fiction, autobiographical films ''The Year My Voice Broke'' and ''Flirting (film), Flirting'', and the 1994 film ''Sirens (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 (film), ''Dalmas''). He began directing films in 1974, with early successes including ''Mouth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Of Our Dreams
''Winter of Our Dreams'' is a 1981 Australian drama film directed by John Duigan. Judy Davis won the Best Actress in a Lead Role in the AFI Awards for her performance in the film. The film was nominated in six other categories also. It was also entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where Judy Davis won the award for Best Actress. Plot Rob ( Bryan Brown), a bookshop owner, hears of the suicide of an old girlfriend Lisa (Margie McCrae). While investigating the case he meets Lou (Judy Davis), a prostitute and old friend of Lisa's. Cast *Judy Davis as Lou * Bryan Brown as Rob * Cathy Downes as Gretel * Mercia Deane-Johns as Angela *Baz Luhrmann as Pete * Peter Mochrie as Tim *Mervyn Drake as Mick *Margie McCrae as Lisa Blaine * Joy Hruby as Marge *Kim Deacon as Michelle * Gia Carides Production In the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called ''Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain'' about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
