Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Aacta awards

February 2024

  • Sophie Wilde won the award for best lead actress at the 2024 Aacta awards for her role in the horror film Talk To Me.

    Australian arts in focus
    Horror film Talk To Me cleans up at 2024 Aacta awards

    Film takes home awards for best film and direction – with Deadloch, The New Boy, The Newsreader and Margot Robbie also winning big
  • Margot Robbie arrives at the Aacta awards

    Aacta awards 2024 red carpet: Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Rebel Wilson – in pictures

    Conditions on the Gold Coast are monochrome with a chance of shimmer as Australia’s film and TV stars arrive to celebrate screen industry
  • Among the best shows in recent memory: (L-R) The Newsreader, Deadloch, Colin from Accounts, Love Me, Safe Home, and The Artful Dodger.

    Is Australian TV in its golden era? The 2024 Aacta awards has a huge field of quality contenders

    The past year has spoiled audiences with ambitious, gripping television. Some will be celebrated and plenty more will miss out

December 2023

  • 440852,The Newsreader S2<br>The Newsreader S2,09-11-2023,1,Dale Jennings (SAM REID) Helen Norville (ANNA TORV),,Werner Film Projects Pty Ltd and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,David Cook

    Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations

    ABC drama snags 15 nominations, while The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett, horror hit Talk to Me and Shayda lead in film categories

October 2022

  • USA. Austin Butler in a scene from (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Elvis (2022). Plot: A look at the life of the legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley. Ref: LMK110-J7903 -220222 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2HPTNAF USA. Austin Butler in a scene from (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Elvis (2022). Plot: A look at the life of the legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley. Ref: LMK110-J7903 -220222 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com - film still

    Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis leads 2022 Aacta award nominations

    Austin Butler and Tom Hanks up for acting roles alongside director Luhrmann, while ABC drama Mystery Road: Origins leads TV categories with 15 nominations

December 2021

  • David Gulpilil’s face was projected on to the Sydney Opera House sails on Wednesday night

    Australian arts in focus
    Aacta awards 2021: Nitram dominates ceremony as stars pay tribute to David Gulpilil

  • Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards<br>epa09628560 Bazmark 'Baz' Luhrmann and Rebel Wilson arrive for the 2021 AACTA Awards at the Sydney Opera House, in Sydney, Australia, 08 December 2021. EPA/BIANCA DE MARCHI AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Aactas 2021: Rebel Wilson, Taika Waititi and Sarah Snook walk the red carpet – in pictures

October 2021

  • Anna Torv and Sam Reid in season one of the ABC 2021 series the Newsreader

    Australian arts in focus
    Aacta awards 2021: The Newsreader, Nitram and High Ground scoop nominations

    Drama series commissioned by the ABC dominate nominations recognising Australian film and television content

November 2020

  • Eliza Scanlen, Cate Blanchett and Shannon Murphy, who won big at the 2020 Aactas.

    Aacta awards 2020: Cate Blanchett’s Stateless and Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth win big

    Women-led productions dominate distanced ceremony after year academy president Russell Crowe describes as ‘very challenging’

October 2020

  • Charlie Hunnam in True History of the Kelly Gang

    Aacta awards 2020: Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Ned Kelly gang vie for honours

    Lockdown-inspired TV comedy At Home Alone Together among the few nods to Covid in screen industry’s annual gongs

December 2019

  • Luke Buckmaster

    Aacta awards 2019: it's strange to be a critic at the ceremony

    Luke Buckmaster
  • Aacta award winners Sam Neill, Deborah Mailman and Damon Herriman.

    Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awards

October 2019

  • Aisling Franciosi in Jennifer Kent’s film The Nightingale.

    Aacta awards 2019: The Nightingale and its star Damon Herriman lead nominations

    Herriman breaks records in Australian film and TV industry honours as Miranda Tapsell, Essie Davis and Deborah Mailman also up for prizes

December 2018

  • Luke Buckmaster

    Sweet Country deserves its Aactas but Australia's stellar indie films lose out again

    Luke Buckmaster
  • Warwick Thornton accepts the Aacta award for best film for Sweet Country

    Aactas 2018: Warwick Thornton hits out at offshore detention as Sweet Country wins big

  • Warwick Thornton with the AACTA Award for best cinematography for Sweet Country

    Aactas 2018: Sweet Country and Ladies in Black lead early categories

  • Sam Neill

    ‘This is barbarity’: stars to wear blue ribbons at Aacta event to support asylum seekers

November 2018

  • A still from 1%, an Australian film about motorcycle gangs, directed by Stephen McCallum and written by Matt Nable.

    Why is Australia so keen to reward films full of staggering misogyny?

    Andy Hazel
    The passion projects of the Australian film industry are overwhelmingly produced by men – and overwhelmingly tell stories that debase women

December 2017

  • Nicole Kidman

    ‘It’s not just about the Weinsteins’: how do we fix the gender problem in Australian film?

  • Russell Crowe speaking at the Aacta awards on Wednesday night.

    Aactas 2017: Lion blitzes awards as Russell Crowe comments cut from broadcast

About 45 results for Aacta awards
123
Explore more on these topics