The reader is a film directed by stephen daldry with kate winslet, david kross, ralph fiennes, bruno ganz, year. Screen story by eric roth and robin swicord actress in a supporting role taraji p. Financial analysis of australia 2008 including budget, domestic and international box office gross. We have some early details on baz luhrmans new film in both formats. It is the third highest grossing australian film of all time, behind crocodile dundee 1986 and mad max. List of accolades received by the dark knight wikipedia.
When cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a roughhewn cattle driver hugh jackman to drive two thousand head of cattle across the countrys most unforgiving landscape, only to face the bombing of darwin by japanese forces. There were celebrations across australia and vanuatu as news of a record oscar nominations for three australian films, lion, hacksaw ridge and tanna, landed on wednesday. Academy award nominated documentary maker wins 2008 film. View trailers, photos and detailed information about the 92nd academy awards nominees. Despite australia picking up a record 14 oscar nominations in 2017, it has been a while since an australian took out a top gong for. It was released to the rest of the world in late december 2008 and january and february 2009. The film critics circle of australia award nominations are in. Events in northern australia included the bombing of darwin during world war ii.
Javier bardem in no country for old men miramax and paramount vantage philip seymour hoffman in charlie wilsons war universal hal holbrook in into the wild paramount vantage and river. Full list of oscar winners and nominations film the. Le candidature agli awards e ai festival e i piu importanti riconoscimenti ottenuti. Batmanbruce wayne christian bale raises the stakes in his war on crime. The black balloon had the most nominations with a total of 11 including best film. She received oscars for both costume design and production design for the great gatsby 20, repeating a feat that she accomplished in 2001 with moulin rouge. Altogether, indian films got five nominations two each for loktak lairembee and newton and one for sexy durga. I premi e le nomination per il film australia 2008. An english aristocrat inherits an australian ranch the size of maryland.
Broadcast film critics name critics choice winners. While the spread of nominations among this years usual suspects hacksaw ridge, goldstone, the daughter, looking for grace, and festival fave girl asleep is as one might expect, its melbourneshot indie pawno that has become a surprise contender, picking up five nominations at this years film critics circle of australia awards best actor, best actress, best. Bay area couple lived in a van for two years to save up for their. Set in the northern territory in the late 1930s and early 1940s and presented as a classic western. When cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a roughhewn stockman to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the countrys most unforgiving land. The movie was released in both australia and the united states on 26 november 2008. With nicole kidman, hugh jackman, shea adams, eddie baroo. Brandon walters born january 1996 is an indigenous australian actor known for his performance as nullah in the 2008 film australia. At the outbreak of world war ii an english aristocrat nicole kidman inherits a northern territory station in australias outback. The mid1900s had a slow start for australian film, although the first academy award was won for an australian film, kokoda front linethe industry picked back up during the 1970s with one of the first internationally released films, picnic at hanging rock, and with the success of the series of mad max franchise films. Film australia today recognised the exceptional work of academy award nominated, independent documentary filmmaker david bradbury, by presenting him with the stanley hawes award for 2008. Built on lavish vistas and impeccable production, australia is unfortunately burdened with thinly drawn characters and a lack of originality. No shortage of headshaking surprises in film nominations.
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture. The 2008 academy awards were presented on february 22, 2009, at the kodak theatre. The complete list of 2008 oscar winners, as they come in, plus all the nominees. Film editing kirk baxter and angus wall writing adapted screenplay screenplay by eric roth. If australia was made around the same time as gone with the wind i know that everybody would be drooling over it saying, oh its the best film of all time. List of australian academy award winners and nominees. Best sound editing sound effects, foley, dialogue and adr in a foreign feature film. Certainly it was the biggest australian film in many years, and probably the most expensive australian film ever made ever. These awards honour outstanding achievements in theatrically released motion pictures and were first presented by the united states academy of motion picture arts and sciences ampas in 1929.
In northern australia at the beginning of wwii, an english aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of maryland. Featured movie news once upon a time in hollywood named best picture at the critics choice awards read more. When the film was released in australia in november it found the odd. See the list of 2020 oscar nominations including best picture, best actors and actresses, and more. The reader opens in postwwii germany when teenager michael berg david kross becomes ill and is helped home by hanna schmitz kate winslet, a stranger twice his age. With the help of lieutenant jim gordon gary oldman and district attorney harvey dent aaron eckhart, batman sets out to. This list details australian people working in the film industry who have been nominated for, or won, academy awards also known as oscars. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience. The first part of the film is kind of like a murder mystery, another part deals with prejudice against the aboriginals in australia, the next is an adventure story of sorts, with one part thats. Get your swag on with discounted movies to stream at home, exclusive movie gear, access to advanced screenings and discounts galore.
Or whatever you call gone with the wind i havent seen it because baz has created a loveletter to those old epics and its a welcome breath of fresh air to our screens. Set in northern australia before world war ii, an english aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stockman in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. The 66th golden globe film nominations are in, and they resolve. Award winning manipuri filmmaker haobam paban kumars debut feature film loktak lairembee lady of the lake has got two nominations at the prestigious asia pacific screen awards apsa in australia along with newton. Projectspecific support provided by screen australias production investment programs since the agencys inception in july 2008. Australia 2008 movie simple english wikipedia, the. Yesterday, the hollywood foreign press association seemed quite happy to toss bouquets to any 2008 movie with a. The film stars louis koo, barbie hsu, nick cheung and liu ye. Excludes producer offset and producer equity program.
Australia brings the outback to dvd and bluray on march 3rd jan, 2009. It is currently the 46th highestgrossing film of all time. Baz luhrmann dreamed of making the australian gone with the wind, and so he has, with much of that films lush epic beauty and some of. The film received a nomination for an academy award for best costume design at the 81st academy awards. Premi e nomination australia 2008 di baz luhrmann mymovies. The dark knight is a film directed by christopher nolan with christian bale, heath ledger, aaron eckhart, michael caine, year. It has been more than four years since the november 2008 release of baz luhrmanns film australia. The nominees for best documentary, best short fiction film and best short animation were announced on 7 august whilst all the other nominees were announced at the nominations announcement in sydney on 29 october. During the ceremony, the australian film institute presented australian film institute awards commonly referred to as afi awards in 40 categories including feature films, television, animation and. Australia cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. An expanded version of the thing, seth rogen takes on memes and more.
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