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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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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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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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Harry Beecham (Sam Neill) has waited two years for Sybylla (Judy Davis) to agree to marry. As drought grips the land again, he comes for an answer, but Sybylla explains why she cannot. Summary by...
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A family conference in a deserted café about what to do in the wake of the murder of two cops in which the brothers have been involved. Family matriarch Smurf (Jacki Weaver) reminds her criminal sons...
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David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) has returned to Perth a broken man, after his collapse on stage at the Royal College of Music. He has been in and out of mental institutions and half-way houses until...
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Ida (Deborah Kerr) has persuaded her husband to inquire about a job shearing sheep. In the contractor’s office, Paddy (Robert Mitchum) tries his best to avoid getting hired but Quinlan (Chips...
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Filmmaker Ken G Hall appears on The Mike Walsh Show with the two different Oscars he received for the newsreel Kokoda Front Line (1942).
The first Oscar he shows is an ersatz (substitute) statue...
