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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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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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En route to crocodile country, reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) asks Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) about his age and background. Mick’s business partner Wally (John Meillon) tries to embroider the...
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Heath Ledger is considered a favourite to take home the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, USA, 2005).
This Nine News report by Christine Spiteri features short...
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After the long voyage from Scotland, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) and daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) are camped on a New Zealand beach, in a tent made from Ada’s skirt hoops. They are woken by the...
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At a bush camp, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) is at first spooked by the quiet arrival of an Aboriginal man in face paint. Mick (Paul Hogan) introduces Neville (David Gulpilil), a 'real city-boy’,...
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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...
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Heath Ledger's family accept the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards for Ledger's performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, USA, 2008).
In accepting...
