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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

n people working in the

film industry The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post ...

who have been nominated for, or won,

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

s (also known as Oscars). These awards honour outstanding achievements in theatrically released motion pictures and were first presented by the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motio ...

(AMPAS) in 1929. , a total of 55 awards from 192 nominations have been won by Australians. Additionally, awards for Scientific and Engineering achievements have been given to Australians four times. Art director and costume designer Catherine Martin has received more awards than any other Australian with four wins from six nominations in the Best Costume Design and Best Production Design categories.

Cate Blanchett Catherine Elise Blanchett (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the finest performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. She has received nu ...

is the most nominated individual in this list with seven nominations, which resulted in a win for Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir ( ; born August 21, 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He's known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), ''Gallipoli'' (1981), ''Witness ...

has received five competitive nominations in the

Best Picture This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * BA ...

and

Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the ...

categories without a win, however, he will be awarded the

Academy Honorary Award The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Moti ...

at the

95th Academy Awards The 95th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor films released in 2022, and is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2023. Comed ...

May Robson Mary Jeanette Robison (19 April 1858 – 20 October 1942), known professionally as May Robson, was an Australian-born American-based actress whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25. A major stage actress of the late 19t ...

was the first Australian-born person to receive an Oscar nomination for

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...

in 1933 for ''

Lady for a Day ''Lady for a Day'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Acade ...

''. In

1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...

Ken G. Hall Kenneth George Hall, AO, OBE (22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film producer and director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry. ...

became the first Australian to win an Academy Award for his documentary ''

Kokoda Front Line! ''Kokoda Front Line!'' was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942, about the Kokoda Track campaign. It was one of four win ...

'' in the Best Documentary category. Suzanne Baker was the first Australian woman to win an Oscar, which was given to her in

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

for

Best Animated Short The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...

for ''Leisure''. Cate Blanchett was the first Australian actor to win more than one award in the acting categories.

Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia as a teenager and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville ...

was the first actor to be awarded an Oscar

posthumously Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death * ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1987 * ''Posthumous'' (E ...

, winning the

Academy Award for Best Actor The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The ...

for his performance in ''

Network Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

'' in

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

. The only other acting Oscar awarded posthumously was to fellow Australian

Heath Ledger Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor and music video director. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to ...

32 years later when his performance in ''

The Dark Knight ''The Dark Knight'' is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan. Based on the DC Comics superhero, Batman, it is the sequel to ''Batman Begins'' (2005) and the second insta ...

'' earned him the

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while worki ...

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. Out of the six total Australian performers who have won acting Oscars, only Blanchett, Ledger and

Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He is known for his Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy ...

were born in Australia; with Finch,

Nicole Kidman Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an American and Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid act ...

and

Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent ten years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age twenty one. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maxi ...

being born outside of Australia, in

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

, respectively, and raised in Australia. Australians have been nominated at least once in all categories. The Oscar for Best Costume Design has been the most successful category for Australians with seven wins from 17 nominations. The Academy Awards for

Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

, Best Original Score, and the Best Documentary (Short Subject) are the only categories in this list where Australians have been nominated without winning.

Nominees and winners

In the following tables, the years correspond to the year in which the films were released; the Academy Award ceremony is held the following year.

Production

Best Picture

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Best Animated Film

Best Animated Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film

Performance

May Robson in Broadway to Hollywood trailer

Russell Crowe - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer (2)

Heath Ledger (Berlin Film Festival 2006) revised

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actress

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Craft

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Director

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Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibi ...

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John Farrow John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Spending a considerable amount of his career in the United States, in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for B ...

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Wake Island Wake Island ( mh, Ānen Kio, translation=island of the kio flower; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu, southeast of To ...

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Bruce Beresford Bruce Beresford (; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. Beresford's notable films he has directed include ''Br ...

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Tender Mercies ''Tender Mercies'' is a 1983 American drama (film and television), drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholism, alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life aro ...

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Dead Poets Society ''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and starring Robin Williams. Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative boarding school Welton Academy, it tells the story of an English t ...

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Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and '' The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for which she has received a tot ...

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The Piano ''The Piano'' is a 1993 historical drama, period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role, the film focuses on a Elective mutism, mute Scott ...

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Chris Noonan Chris Noonan (born 14 November 1952) is an Australian Film director, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the family film ''Babe (film), Babe'' (1995), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award f ...

, ''

Babe Babe or babes may refer to: * Babe, a term of endearment * A newborn baby * An attractive (especially female) person People Nickname * Babe Adams (1882–1968), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Babe Barna (1917–1972), American Maj ...

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Mel Gibson Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is best known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocaly ...

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Braveheart ''Braveheart'' is a 1995 American historical drama film directed and produced by, and starring Mel Gibson. Gibson portrays Sir William Wallace, a late-13th century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence ag ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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Scott Hicks Scott Hicks may refer to: * Scott Hicks (basketball) (born 1966), American former college basketball coach * Scott Hicks (director) Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953), known as Scott, is an Australian film director, producer and screenwrit ...

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The Truman Show ''The Truman Show'' is a 1998 American psychological satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol. The film stars Jim Carrey as Truma ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

( 83rd) ,

Tom Hooper Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972)''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''. 5d: 2485. is a British-Australian filmmaker. Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, ...

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The King's Speech ''The King's Speech'' is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language ...

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2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

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2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

( 89th) , Mel Gibson , ''

Hacksaw Ridge ''Hacksaw Ridge'' is a 2016 biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary ''The Conscientious Objector'' directed by Terry Benedict. The film focuses on the World Wa ...

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2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

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Best Editing

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

( 34th) ,

Alan Osbiston Alan Brigstocke Osbiston (7 May 1914 – 1971) was an Australian-born British film editor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1962 for '' The Guns of Navarone''. History Osbiston was born in Crows Nest, New South Wal ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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Richard Francis-Bruce Richard Leslie Francis-Bruce (born 10 December 1948) is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Career Francis-Bruce aspired to be a cinematographer like his father, Jack ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

( 74th) ,

Jill Bilcock Jill Elizabeth Bilcock (born 1948) is an Australian film editor, a member of the Australian Screen Editors (ASE) guild, as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE) society, and has edited films such as ''Romeo + Juliet'', ''Moulin Rouge!'' an ...

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Moulin Rouge! ''Moulin Rouge!'' (, ) is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It follows a young English poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and cour ...

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Lee Smith Lee Smith is the name of: Arts, entertainment and media *Lee Smith (fiction author) (born 1944), American author of fiction * Lee Smith (film editor) (born 1960), Australian film editor * Lee Smith (musician) (born 1983), American drummer * Lee Sm ...

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Kirk Baxter Kirk Baxter (born 1972) is an Australian film editor. He has worked with director David Fincher and editor Angus Wall several times, winning Academy Awards for '' The Social Network'' and ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. Baxter was raised in ...

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The Social Network ''The Social Network'' is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book ''The Accidental Billionaires'' by Ben Mezrich. It portrays the founding of social networking web ...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (original title in sv, Män som hatar kvinnor , lit=''Men Who Hate Women'') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004). It was published posthumously in 2 ...

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Margaret Sixel Margaret Sixel is an Australian and South African film editor. She is best known for her work as editor on her husband George Miller's films, including '' Babe: Pig in the City'' (1998), ''Happy Feet'' (2006), and '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015) ...

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Jonathan Amos Jonathan Amos is an English film and television editor. He has worked on TV series such as '' Spooks'' and '' Party Animals'', ''New Street Law'' and feature films '' Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' (2010), ''20,000 Days on Earth'' (2014), '' Paddin ...

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Peter Sciberras Peter Sciberras is an Australian film editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards ...

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Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film. Traditionally, three films have been nominated each year with exceptions in the early 1980s and 2002 when the ...

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Lois Burwell Lois Burwell (born 1960) is a British Academy Awards, Oscar-winning makeup artist. She won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Makeup Oscar at the 68th Academy Awards for the film ''Braveheart'', which she shared with Peter ...

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Peter Frampton Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English musician and songwriter who was a member of the rock bands Humble Pie and the Herd. As a solo artist, he has released several albums, including his major breakthrough album, the live ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

( 78th) ,

Dave Elsey Dave Elsey (born 9 February 1967) is a make-up artist known for special make-up effects, creature effects and animatronics in films such as '' X-Men: First Class'', ''Ghost Rider'', ''Star Wars'', ''Hellraiser'', ''Alien 3'', and ''Indiana Jones ...

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Rick Baker Richard A. Baker (born December 8, 1950), known professionally as Rick Baker, is an American retired special make-up effects creator and actor. He is mostly known for his creature designs and effects. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeu ...

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( 85th) ,

Rick Findlater Rick Findlater is a makeup artist who has worked on the makeup for ''The Lord of the Rings'' as well as ''The Hobbit'' films. He was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 85th Academy Awards for '' The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey''. ...

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Tami Lane Tami Lane, born June 16, 1974, is an American prosthetic makeup artist who won the Academy Award for Best Makeup for the 2005 film '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. She received an additional Academy Award nomina ...

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Best Music, Original Score

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Douglas Gamley John Douglas Gamley (13 September 19245 February 1998), generally known as Douglas Gamley, was an Australian composer, who worked on orchestral arrangements and on local, British and American films. Biography John Douglas Gamley was born on 1 ...

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Angela Morley Angela Morley (10 March 192414 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor who became a familiar household name to BBC Radio listeners in the 1950s. She attributed her entry into composing and arranging largely to the influence and en ...

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Frederick Loewe Frederick Loewe (, originally German Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988) was an Austrian-United States, American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including ''Br ...

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Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...

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David Hirschfelder David Hirschfelder (born 18 November 1960, Ballarat, Victoria) is an Australian musician, film score composer and performer. As a musician he has been a member of Little River Band and John Farnham Band. He has composed film scores for many films ...

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Best Music, Original Song

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John Farrar John Clifford Farrar ( ; born 8 November 1946) is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–64), The Stra ...

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1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

( 54th) , Peter Allen , "

Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is a song performed and co-written by American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, which was the main theme for the 1981 film ''Arthur'' starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli. The song won the Oscar f ...

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Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gra ...

, Christopher Cross and

Carole Bayer Sager Carole Bayer Sager (born Carol Bayer on March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, singer, and songwriter. Early life and career Bayer Sager was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. Her family was Jewish. She grad ...

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Best Production Design

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John Truscott John Edward Truscott (23 February 1936 – 5 September 1993) was an Australian actor, production designer, costume designer and artistic director. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1967 film ''Camelot''. Career Truscott began hi ...

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Edward Carrere Edward Carrere (13 October 1906 – 19 December 1984) born in Mexico, first hit Hollywood in 1947, making his debut as an art director on '' My Wild Irish Rose''. He garnered his first Academy Award nomination two years later for the Errol Fly ...

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Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before op ...

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( 66th) , Luciana Arrighi , ''

Howards End ''Howards End'' is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. ''Howards End'' is considered by many to be Forster's masterpiece. The book was ...

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Ian Whittaker Ian Roy Whittaker (13 July 1928 – 16 October 2022) was a British set decorator and actor. He won an Academy Award and was nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction. Whittaker died of prostate cancer on 16 October 2022, at ...

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Roger Ford Roger Ford may refer to: * Roger Ford (journalist) * Roger Ford (production designer) * Roger Ford (cricketer) See also * Rodger Ford Rodger Ford is the managing partner at Anthem Equity Group. He has also managed two medical device companies. ...

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( 69th) , Catherine Martin , ''

Romeo + Juliet Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy '' Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a pr ...

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Brigitte Broch Brigitte Broch, born November 21, 1943, is a German Mexicans, German-Mexican production designer. Personal life Broch is a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Oscar nominations Both of these are in Academy Award for Best Production Design, Best Art ...

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( 72nd) , Luciana Arrighi , ''

Anna and the King ''Anna and the King'' is a 1999 American biographical period drama film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes. Loosely based on the 1944 novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'', which gives a fictionalized account ...

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( 74th) , Catherine Martin , ''

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( 81st) , Michael Carlin , '' The Duchess'' , , , style="text-align: center", , - , style="text-align: center",

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( 86th) , Catherine Martin

Beverley Dunn Beverley Ruth Dunn (24 April 1933 – 27 November 2021) was an Australian veteran radio, stage, television and film actress based in Melbourne, Australia. Dunn had roles in films including ''Ground Zero'', '' Gross Misconduct'', '' Shine'' ...

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The Great Gatsby ''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious mil ...

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( 88th) , Colin Gibson
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( 91st) , Fiona Crombie , ''

The Favourite ''The Favourite'' is a 2018 period black comedy film co-produced and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, from a screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. Set in early 18th century Great Britain, the film's plot examines the relationship betw ...

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Best Sound Mixing

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it ...

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( 71st) , Paul Brincat , '' The Thin Red Line'' , , Shared with Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer , style="text-align: center", , - , align=center,

( 72nd) , David Lee , ''

The Matrix ''The Matrix'' is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the first installment in ''The Matrix'' film series, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantolia ...

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John T. Reitz John T. Reitz is an American re-recording mixer. He won an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category. He has worked on more than 180 films since 1976. Selected filmography Reitz won an Academy Award for Best ...

Gregg Rudloff Gregg Rudloff (November 2, 1955 – January 6, 2019) was an American re-recording mixer. He won three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on 150 films ...

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Roger Savage Roger Savage is an Australian sound engineer who was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film ''Moulin Rouge!''. After moving from England to Australia in 1964, he engineered some of the most important Australian ...

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Christopher Boyes Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another ten. He has worked on more than 100 films since 1991. Academy Awards Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for ...

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( 87th) , David Lee , ''Unbroken'' , , Shared with Jon Taylor and

Frank A. Montaño Frank A. Montaño is an American re-recording mixer. He has been nominated for nine Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 145 films since 1987. Selected filmography * ''Under Siege'' (1992) ...

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( 88th) , Ben Osmo , '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' , , Shared with Chris Jenkins and Gregg Rudloff. , , - ,

( 89th) , Andy Wright
Robert Mackenzie
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( 94th) , Robert Mackenzie
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Best Sound Editing

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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing was an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects (such as foley). The award was usually ...

( 88th) , David White , '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' , , Shared with

Mark Mangini Mark Mangini (born 1956) is an American sound editor with over 125 film credits. He won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing along with David White for their work on '' Mad Max: Fury Road''. Mangini is renowned for recording and ed ...

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Best Visual Effects

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects. History of the award The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects ...

( 68th) , John Cox , ''

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Charles Gibson Charles deWolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist and podcaster. Gibson was a host of ''Good Morning America'' from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of ''World News with Char ...

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Neal Scanlan Neal Scanlan (born 1961) is a British special effects artist and make-up artist, best known for his work on the Star Wars sequel trilogy and Anthology films. He won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for ''Babe'' in 1996. Selected filmogr ...

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John Gaeta John C. Gaeta (born 1965) is a designer and inventor best known for his work on the ''Matrix'' film trilogy, where he advanced methods and formats known as Bullet Time. Career John Gaeta was born in New York City and grew up in Shoreham, Long ...

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Jon Thum Jon Thum is a visual effects artist. He contributed work on ''The Matrix'' and '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. As a supervisor at Prime Focus World in 2012, he led a 70-person team of artists to produce 650 visual effects shots for ...

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Ben Snow Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards. He works at Industrial Light & Magic. Early life Snow grew up in Australia, where he attended Narrabundah College and the University of Canberra. His ...

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Eric Brevig Eric Brevig (born 1957) is an American film director and visual effects supervisor known for his work in several major theatrical films and television shows. He was Visual Effects Supervisor and Second Unit Director on the 2001 Jerry Bruckheim ...

John Frazier John Frazier (born September 23, 1944) is an American visual effects supervisor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He has 11 Oscar nominations, with one win for ''Spider-Man 2'' at the 77th Academy Awards. He shared the award with John Dykstra ...

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( 75th) , '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' , , Shared with

Rob Coleman Rob Coleman (born April 27, 1964) is a Canadian animation director; he is currently the creative director at Industrial Light & Magic Sydney, Australia. Previously, he was the Head of Animation at the award-winning Australian visual effects and an ...

Pablo Helman Pablo Helman (born July 5, 1959) is an Argentine visual effects supervisor. He was nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on the films '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), ''War of the Worlds'' (2005) and ''The Ir ...

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John Knoll John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also ...

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Nathan McGuinness Nathan Paul McGuinness is a creative director and visual effects supervisor. He was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' (2003) and won a BAFTA Award for his work on the film '' The ...

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Dan Sudick Dan Sudick is a special effects supervisor. Sudick and his fellow visual effects artists were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'', ''War of the Worlds'', '' Iron Man'', ''I ...

Stefen Fangmeier Stefen Markus Fangmeier (born December 9, 1960 in El Paso, Texas, United States) is an American visual effects supervisor and film director. He worked on numerous major feature films, including ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' ...

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Robert Stromberg Robert Stromberg (born 1965) is an American special effects artist, designer and filmmaker. Stromberg's credits include films such as James Cameron's ''Avatar'', Tim Burton's '' Alice in Wonderland'', and Sam Raimi's ''Oz the Great and Powerful'' ...

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( 81st) , Ben Snow , ''

Iron Man Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The charact ...

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Shane Mahan Shane Patrick Mahan (born September 22, 1964) is an American special effects creator, creature designer, puppeteer and producer known for his work at Stan Winston Studio and its successor, Legacy Effects. His film credits include '' The Terminato ...

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( 83rd) , Ben Snow

Ged Wright Ged Wright is a visual effects artist. He was nominated at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work on the film ''Iron Man 2''. This was in the category of Best Visual Effects. For which his nomination was shared with Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow and Da ...

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Iron Man 2 ''Iron Man 2'' is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the sequel to ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008) and List of Marve ...

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Bryan Grill Bryan Grill is a visual effects artist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and one BAFTA award. Oscar history Both of these are in the category of Best Visual Effects. * 83rd Academy Awards-Nominated for ''Hereafter''. Nomination ...

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David Clayton David George Clayton (born 13 June 1944), is a British statistician and epidemiologist. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Principal Research Fello ...

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( 86th) , '' The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'' , , Shared with Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, and Eric Reynolds. , style="text-align: center", , - , style="text-align: center",

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Tim Crosbie Tim Crosbie is an Australian visual effects supervisor. He was nominated for the Best Visual Effects at the 87th Academy Awards for his work on the film '' X-Men: Days of Future Past''. His nomination was shared with Richard Stammers Richar ...

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Richard Stammers Richard Stammers is a British visual effects artist. He was nominated for the Best Visual Effects at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on the film ''Prometheus'' and at the 87th Academy Awards for his work on the film '' X-Men: Days of Futur ...

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Cameron Waldbauer Cameron Waldbauer is a Canadian (mechanical and physical) special effects supervisor. Waldbaurer was nominated for the Best Visual Effects at the 87th Academy Awards for his work on the film '' X-Men: Days of Future Past''. His nomination was s ...

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Dan Oliver Dan Oliver is an Australian special effects supervisor. He worked on various feature films, including '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), ''The Great Gatsby'' (2013), '' Mad Max: Fury Road'' (2015) and ''Gods of Egypt'' (2016) Dan Oliver was ...

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Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hos ...

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( 93rd) , Matt Sloan
Genevieve Camilleri
Matt Everitt
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Joe Farrell Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily performed as a saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name o ...

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shang-Chi. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 25th film ...

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Christopher Townsend Christopher Townsend is a visual effects supervisor. He has worked in the visual effects industry for over 20 years. For over a decade, he was an artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, and in 2007 became a freelance visual effects s ...

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Best Adapted Screenplay

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James Poe James Wilber Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on such films as ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (for which he jointly won an Academy Award for Best Ad ...

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( 53rd) , Jonathan Hardy
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Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film '' Lion'', which e ...

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Best Original Screenplay

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Ivan Goff Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 – 23 September 1999) was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including ''White Heat'' (1949), '' Man of a Thousand Faces'' (1957), '' Legend of the Lone Ranger'' (1981), and ...

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John Cornell John Cornell (2 March 1941 – 23 July 2021) was an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, and businessman. He was best known for his role as "Strop" on ''The Paul Hogan Show'', and he was instrumental in the introduction of World Serie ...

Paul Hogan Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as ...

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"Crocodile" Dundee ''Crocodile Dundee'' (stylized as ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' in the U.S.) is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, and American actress Linda Kozlowski as rep ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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Nick Enright Nicholas Paul Enright AM (22 December 1950 – 30 March 2003) was an Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director. Early life Enright was born on 22 December 1950 to a prosperous professional Catholic family in East Maitland, New So ...

George Miller , ''

Lorenzo's Oil ''Lorenzo's Oil'' is a 1992 American drama film directed and co-written by George Miller. It is based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, parents who search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), leading to ...

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Jan Sardi Jan Vittorio Sardi (born 1953) is an Australian screenwriter. In 1997, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay), for '' Shine''. He wrote and directed the 2004 film '' Love's Brother''. He adapted the novel b ...

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Non-competitive awards

Academy Honorary Award

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Scientific and Engineering

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( 70th) , Jim Frazier , Photography , , Frazier was awarded for the concept. His fellow recipients Iain Neil, Rick Gelbard were involved in the design and development of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography. , style="text-align: center", , - , style="text-align: center", 1998
( 71st) , Gary Tregaskis , Computer software , , Gary Tregaskis, for the primary design; Dominique Boisvert, Phillip Panzini, Andre LeBlanc for the development and implementation of the Flame and Inferno software. , style="text-align: center", , - , style="text-align: center",

( 74th) , Bruce Tulloch
Norman Jackson
Andrew Brent
John Lancken , Development of Digital Audio Dubbing equipment (Fairlight DaD) for film audio dubbing and mixing. , , Bruce Tulloch and Norman Jackson developed a technology used by film dubbing engineers to mix film soundtracks. Emilijo Mihatov was Product Manager, Andrew Brent was technical support and John Lancken was market development. The product was manufactured by Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia. , , - , style="text-align: center",

( 76th) , Michael Carlos
Andrew Cannon
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( 83rd) , Tony Clark
Alan Rogers
Neil Wilson
Rory McGregor , Software design and continued development of cineSync, a tool for remote collaboration and review of visual effects , , , style="text-align: center",

References

External links

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