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Tagged: Academy Awards

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Australian award-winning animated short films
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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Australian films at the Oscars
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
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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Australia's first Oscar
The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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Best of Australian animated short films
Enjoy a comprehensive selection of Australian animated short films in our new curated collection.
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Australian Films Nominated for Academy Awards
Australian films have been nominated in nearly every category at the Academy Awards.
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Ken Muggleston
Australian set decorator Ken Muggleston recalls the moment he first learned he'd won an Academy Award.
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Animal Kingdom: Family conference
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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Kylie as the Green Fairy in Moulin Rouge!
It was a clever choice by director Baz Luhrmann to cast Kylie in a cameo as the playful and seductive ‘Green Fairy’ in his epic musical Moulin Rouge! (2001). The scene illustrates the indelible mark...
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Happy Feet: 'I love gravity'
Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) has been expelled from the colony. His dancing upsets the elders, but he finds that Adelie penguins have a much more open attitude. His new best friends – five party-...
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