Mad Max: Fury Road named Best Film while Peter Allen miniseries takes home five AACTAs
Action movie Mad Max: Fury Road was named the best Australian film of the year while Seven’s Peter Allen miniseries Not The Boy Next Door dominated the TV categories at the AACTA awards last night.
A tearful Cate Blanchett also accepted one of Australian acting’s highest awards last night being awarded the Longford Lyell Award for outstanding contribution.
Blanchett received tributes from some of the world’s biggest names in film, including Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Redford, Ridley Scott and Ron Howard and made an impassioned call for more Australian actors on screen.
Mr Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the amazing Cate Blanchett in honour of her receiving Australia’s top screen accolade, the AACTA Longford Lyell Award. #AACTAs
Posted by Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) on Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Blanchett told the room that more Australian actors should be cast.
“We should be bloody proud of it [the local industry], we don’t need to go to another country,” said Blanchett.
“Because we just get on and do stuff, female achievement gets swept under the carpet, so it’s extraordinary to achieve this. It’s not a quota … it needs to be fought for.”
Mad Max won Best Film and Best Director, while Seven’s Peter Allen won in five categories including best miniseries, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Joel Jackson, Best Supporting Actor forKy Baldwin and Best Supporting Actress for Sigrid Thornton.
Meanwhile the Byron Kennedy Award celebrating outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries went to Australian cinematographer Adam Arkapaw who best known for his work on the television series Top of the Lake and True Detective.
The full list of winners from last night’s AACTA’s, which were held at Star Event Centre in Sydney:
AACTA LONGFORD LYELL AWARD
• Cate Blanchett
BYRON KENNEDY AWARD
• Adam Arkapaw
TELEVISION
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES
• SHAUN MICALLEF’S MAD AS HELL Shaun Micallef, Peter Beck – ABC
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST REALITY TELEVISION SERIES
• MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA Margaret Bashfield, Marty Benson, Tim Toni, Rob Wallace
– Network Ten
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES
• GLITCH Tony Ayres, Louise Fox, Ewan Burnett – ABC
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST TELEFEATURE OR MINI SERIES
• PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR Kerrie Mainwaring, Rory Callaghan – Seven Network
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY IN TELEVISION
• PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR Episode 2 Michael Miller – Seven Network
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
• Joel Jackson PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR – Seven Network
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
• Pamela Rabe WENTWORTH SERIES 3 – FOXTEL – SoHo
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST GUEST OR SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
• Ky Baldwin PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR Episode 1 – Seven Network
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST GUEST OR SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
• Sigrid Thornton PETER ALLEN – NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR Episode 1 – Seven Network
AACTA SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION 20TH ANNIVERSARY AWARD FOR BEST DRAMA
• LOVE MY WAY
FEATURE FILM
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY PRESTO
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Doug Mitchell, PJ Voeten, George Miller
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION PRESENTED BY HYUNDAI GENESIS
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD George Miller
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR
• Michael Caton LAST CAB TO DARWIN
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS
• Kate Winslet THE DRESSMAKER
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Hugo Weaving THE DRESSMAKER
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Judy Davis THE DRESSMAKER
AACTA PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN FILM
• THE DRESSMAKER
“We should be bloody proud of it [the local industry], we don’t need to go to another country,” said Blanchett as she recently sold her Hunters Hill Palace and moved to Los Angeles.
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“We should be bloody proud of it [the local industry], we don’t need to go to another country.”
Yeah! Fuck Namibia
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