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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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As Harvie’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, his nursing home is visited by a church group, entertaining him with the song 'God is better than football, God is better than beer’. Harvie sees in his...
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Harvie, travelling on a tram, learns that the steel plate in his head is magnetic. Having suffered much bad luck and now regarded as a 'weirdo’ by onlookers, he is ready to end it all. But the deep...
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Harvie Krumpet wishes for things to change, and they certainly do. The family home burns to the ground, his parents are frozen to death, the Germans invade and he escapes to Australia. Summary by...
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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...
