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The first Australian film nominated for an Academy Award ('Oscar') won - Kokoda Front Line! in 1942.
Since then, Australian productions and co-productions have been nominated in virtually every...
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There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s.
Examples in this curated collection encompass analogue techniques like...
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Crocodile Dundee remains the most commercially successful Australian film ever made, with Paul Hogan’s iconic Mick Dundee at the heart of the film.
It opened in Australian cinemas on 24 April 1986...
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Enjoy a comprehensive selection of Australian animated short films in our new curated collection.
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Australian films have been nominated in nearly every category at the Academy Awards.
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The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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Australian set decorator Ken Muggleston recalls the moment he first learned he'd won an Academy Award.
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Tick/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) attempts to become more ‘masculine’ in the eyes of his son Benji (Mark Holmes), but the boy reassures his father that he accepts him as he is. Mitzi then joins Felicia (Guy...
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Leisure, directed by Australian master animator Bruce Petty in 1976, won the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated). It is one of the more unusual films to have come out of Film Australia and...
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Dr Claude Belgon (Helmut Bakaitis) watches from the shadows as Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton) is attacked by the creature they discover on the island. Summary by Dr Marian Quigley.
