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FCCA Awards
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian representatives from international magazines..and local specialist film magazines", and is based in Sydney. The FCCA Annual Awards for Australian Film, rewarding makers of feature films and documentaries is highly regarded. History The Sydney Film Critics' Circle became a national organisation as the Film Critics' Circle of Australia by October 1988. It joined International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), "which will allow its members to be considered for jury duty at international festivals, accreditation at festivals and markets." The FCCA Awards have been presented each year since September 1988, with the inaugural winners including two awards each for ''The Year My Voice Broke'': best director (John Duigan) and best male a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film studies, film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general Journalism, journalistic criticism that appears regularly in press newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre, the industry and History of film, film history as a whole. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British born Australian actor. The accolades he has received include nominations for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, and four AACTA Awards. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in '' Shine'', Locke in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', Darby Sabini in the BBC One series ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr. Bucket in '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and Danny in the Australian cult film '' He Died with a Felafel in His Hand''. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series ''Preacher'' and the 2002 film ''Max''. In 2023 he starred as Dr. Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer in '' A Small Light''. Early life Taylor, elder of two sons, was born in London to Australian parents, Maggie (née Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St Kilda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2011
19th FCCA Awards 13 March 2011 ---- Best Film: Animal Kingdom The 19th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, honoring the best in films from 2010, were presented on 13 March 2011 at North Sydney Leagues Club in Cammeray, New South Wales and hosted by Rod Quinn. The nominees were announced on 8 February 2011 with '' Animal Kingdom'' receiving ten nominations. ''Animal Kingdom'' won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director. Winners Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Best Film *'' Animal Kingdom'' – Liz Watts *'' Beneath Hill 60'' – Bill Leimbach *'' Bran Nue Dae'' – Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac *'' Tomorrow, When the War Began'' – Andrew Mason, Michael Boughen *'' The Waiting City'' – Jamie Hilton, Claire McCarthy Best Director * David Michôd – ''Animal Kingdom'' * Stuart Beattie – ''Tomorrow, When the War Began'' * Claire McCarthy – ''The Waiting City'' * Rachel Perkins – ''Bran Nue Dae'' * Jeremy Sims – ''Beneath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2006
The 15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2006, honoured the best in film for 2006. Winners Best Film *'' Ten Canoes'' (Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan) Best Director * Ray Lawrence ('' Jindabyne'') Best Actress * Abbie Cornish (''Candy'') Best Actor * Shane Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Original Screenplay *Shane Jacobson and Clayton Jacobson (''Kenny'') Best Adapted Screenplay * Beatrix Christian (''Jindabyne'') Best Cinematography *Ian Jones, Ten Canoes David Williamson (''Jindabyne'') Best Editing * Tania Nehme (''Ten Canoes'') Best Actor — Supporting Role *Geoffrey Rush (''Candy'') Best Actress — Supporting Role * Deborra-Lee Furness (''Jindabyne'') Best Music Score: * Cezary Skubiszewski ('' The Book of Revelation'') Best Foreign Language Film *'' Caché (Hidden)'' (Director: Michael Haneke, France) Best Foreign Film – English Language *'' Good Night, and Good Luck.'' (Director: George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2005
15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 14 November 2005 ---- Best Film: ---- Best Foreign Film - English language: The 15th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, given on 14 November 2005, honored the best in film for 2005. Winners *Best Actor: ** William McInnes - '' Look Both Ways'' *Best Actress: **Cate Blanchett - '' Little Fish'' *Best Australian Feature Documentary: **''Rash'' *Best Australian Short Documentary: **'' Girl in a Mirror'' *Best Australian Short Film: **'' Jewboy'' *Best Cinematography: **'' The Proposition'' - Benoît Delhomme *Best Director: ** Sarah Watt - ''Look Both Ways'' *Best Editor: ** Denise Haratzis - ''Look Both Ways'' *Best Film: **''Look Both Ways'' *Best Foreign Film – English Language: **''Million Dollar Baby'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)'', Spain *Best Musical Score: **'' The Proposition'' - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards 2004
The 14th Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, given on 7 November 2004, in Sydney, which honoured the best in film for 2004. Winners Credits: * Best Film: ''Somersault'' produced by Anthony Anderson * Best Director: Cate Shortland for ''Somersault'' * Best Cinematography: Robert Humphreys for ''Somersault'' * Best Editor: Ken Sallows for '' Tom White'' * Best Actor – Lead Role: Colin Friels for ''Tom White'' * Best Actress – Lead Role: Abbie Cornish for ''Somersault'' * Best Actor – Supporting Role: Dan Spielman for ''Tom White'' * Best Actress – Supporting Role: Lynette Curran for ''Somersault'' * Best Screenplay – Adapted: Rolf de Heer for '' The Old Man Who Read Love Stories'' * Best Screenplay – Original: Daniel Keene for ''Tom White'' * Best Music Score: David Hobson, Josh Abrahams, Lisa Gerrard for '' One Perfect Day'' * Best Foreign Film - English Language: Lost in Translation directed by Sofia Coppola * Best Foreign Language Film: ''The Barbarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overnights (radio Show)
''Overnights'' is Australian overnight radio program hosted by Trevor Chappell and Rod Quinn. Chappell hosts the show from ABC Radio Melbourne from Monday to Thursday and Quinn hosts the show from ABC Radio Sydney from Friday to Sunday. The program usually consists of a mix of news and current affairs, lifestyle, arts, education, music, youth and entertainment. Each night there are regular features and presenters. The listening audience is heavily featured throughout the program. ''Overnights'' is broadcast from 2:00 am to 6:00 am (local time) on ABC Local Radio across Australia, and follows ''Nightlife''. The program is broadcast on delay to South Australia and the Northern Territory as well as simulcast on ABC Digital Radio. Hosts In July 2023, ABC announced that Trevor Chappell will host afternoons on ABC Radio Melbourne after 23 years at helm of ''Overnights''. In November 2024, ABC announced that Chappell will return to host ''Overnights''. In March 2025, Rod Quinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Hall (writer)
Sandra Hall is an Australian author and journalist, best known as film reviewer for ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. History Hall began her working life as a cadet at the afternoon tabloid, ''The Sun'', studying Arts at Sydney University at night. She wrote a few movie reviews for ''The Sun'', then in 1964, she left Sydney for Canberra to join the staff of Rupert Murdoch's new national daily, ''The Australian''. The following year, she went to London, where she worked on the magazine, '' Woman's Own'', returning in 1966 to work on Network Ten's current affairs programme, ''Telescope'', before becoming a contributor to '' The Bulletin'', edited by Donald Horne, and ''The Australian'', where she was a television critic for a time. In 1971, she became ''The Bulletin'' 's film reviewer and in 1973, she won a $6,000 Fellowship from the Literature Board to write a history of Australian television. Entitled ''Supertoy: 20 Years of Australian Television'', it was published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman, (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer. Early life Furness was born in Annandale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 18, Furness attended secretarial school to learn shorthand and typing after her mother advised her to have a back-up career if her acting ambitions didn't eventuate to anything. She then got a job as the assistant to John Sorell, the news director at Channel 9. Despite describing herself as "such a bog secretary", Furness has said she thoroughly enjoyed the urgency, the fast action and the high energy of the newsroom. After working in the newsroom for a year, Furness was asked to work on ''No Man's Land'', the station's daytime current affairs program which was produced exclusively by women and hosted by Mickie de Stoop. Furness started working on the show as a researcher before becoming an on-air reporter. After her work at Channel 9, Furness then travelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shame (1988 Film)
''Shame'' is a 1988 Australian drama film directed by Steve Jodrell and written by Beverly Blankenship and Michael Brindley. Deborra-Lee Furness stars as Asta Cadell, a barrister from Perth on a solo motorcycle trip through the Australian countryside. When her bike is damaged, she is forced to stay in a rural town while waiting for replacement parts. While there, she learns of the unsettling nature of the town, where the residents turn a blind eye to the young men's constant harassment and sexual assault of the town's young women. Plot After her motorbike breaks down during a lone tour of outback Western Australia, vacationing barrister Asta Cadell is forced to stay in the small fictitious township of Ginborak while she waits for replacement parts. On arriving in the town, she immediately receives catcalls and sexually suggestive comments from many of the town's men. The town's sergeant, Wal Cuddy, dismisses her concerns and suggests that she not stay in the town long. Cad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Duigan
John Duigan (born 19 June 1949) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his two autobiographical fiction, autobiographical films ''The Year My Voice Broke'' and ''Flirting (film), Flirting'', and the 1994 film ''Sirens (1994 film), Sirens'', which stars Hugh Grant. Biography Duigan was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England to an Australian father, and emigrated to Australia in 1961. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelist Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan studied at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated in 1973 with a master's degree in Philosophy. While at university, he worked extensively as an actor and director in theatre, and acted in a number of films (including ''Brake Fluid'', ''Bonjour Balwyn'' and Dalmas (film), ''Dalmas''). He began directing films in 1974, with early successes including ''Mouth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Review
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findings and essays in books and journals, and general journalistic criticism that appears regularly in press newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre, the industry and film history as a whole. Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences, as well as the films being made in a level of quality that is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Film criticism is also associated with the journalistic type of criticism, which is grounded in the media's effects being developed, and journalistic criticism re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
