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
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
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
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
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
Australian arts in focus
Aacta awards 2021: Nitram dominates ceremony as stars pay tribute to David Gulpilil
Aactas 2021: Rebel Wilson, Taika Waititi and Sarah Snook walk the red carpet – in pictures
October 2021
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
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
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
Aacta awards 2019: it's strange to be a critic at the ceremony
Luke Buckmaster
Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awards
October 2019
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
Sweet Country deserves its Aactas but Australia's stellar indie films lose out again
Luke Buckmaster
Aactas 2018: Warwick Thornton hits out at offshore detention as Sweet Country wins big
Aactas 2018: Sweet Country and Ladies in Black lead early categories
‘This is barbarity’: stars to wear blue ribbons at Aacta event to support asylum seekers
November 2018
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
‘It’s not just about the Weinsteins’: how do we fix the gender problem in Australian film?
Aactas 2017: Lion blitzes awards as Russell Crowe comments cut from broadcast
