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This month, Australia’s brightest industry talent gathered at the AACTA Awards to celebrate achievements in film and entertainment.
Now in its 64th year, AACTA champions and acknowledges home-grown Australian film and entertainment practitioners in sectors including television, online, visual effects, and animation.
Our own stellar cast of lawyers in the Media & Entertainment Team at marshalls+dent+wilmoth are proud to have provided legal services to productions who were nominated across nine award categories and would like to congratulate each of the nominees on their success.
Wolf Like Me (2022)
Nominated for Best Drama Series
Nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Drama – Isla Fisher
Widower Gary is struggling to connect with his 11-year-old daughter Emma. One day, a tragic chance encounter sees Gary meet Mary – who is hiding a supernatural secret.
Firebite (2022)
Nominated for Best Production Design in Television
Nominated for Best Costume Design in Television
Firebite is modern take on the vampire genre which follows Indigenous hunters Tyson and Shanika. The duo is on a quest to stop a 230-year war for land and power.
Sissy (2022)
Nominated for Best Film
Nominated for Best Direction in Film
Nominated for Best Lead Actress in Film – Aisha Dee
After a decade apart, an expected run in leads to former best friends, influencer Cecilia, and soon-to-be bride Emma, escaping for a horror weekend at remote cabin to celebrate Emma’s engagement.
The Stranger (2022)
Nominated for Best Film
Nominated for Best Direction in Film
Nominated for Best Lead Actor in Film – Joel Edgerton
Nomiated for Best Casting
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Film – Sean Harris
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Film – Jada Alberts
Nominated for Best Screenplay in Film
Nominated for Best Cinematography in Film
Nominated for Best Editing in Film
Nominated for Best Production Design in Film
Nominated for Best Sound in Film
Mark, an undercover cop, forms an intense, intimate relationship with Henry, a murder suspect, in an attempt to earn his trust and get a confession, risking both of their lives in the process.
Blaze (2022)
Nominated for Best Cinematography in Film
Nominated for Best Lead Actress in Film – Julia Savage
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Film – Simon Baker
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Film – Yael Stone
Nominated for Best Editing in Film
After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Ithaka (2022)
Nominated for Best Documentary
Ithaka follows father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, John Shipton, on his battle to free his son and shine a light on freedom of journalism, government corruption, and unpunished war crimes.
We Were Once Kids (2021)
Nominated for Best Editing in a Documentary
A personal documentary about the real-life individuals who inspired Larry Clark’s 1995 cult classic KIDS.
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Nominated for Best Hair and Makeup
Rhys is a soldier and a hunter living in a zombie infested wasteland. His job is to capture civilians and deliver them to what’s left of the military and the brutal Surgeon General. When Rhys captures a half-zombie, half-human named Grace, he comes to believe she is the key to ending the apocalypse.
Wog Boys Forever (2022)
Nominated for Audience Choice Award for Best Film
The once infamous Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis is now in his mid-life years, still single and working as a taxi driver. The comedic feature-film follows his pursuit of former flame Cleo, and battle with Immigration Minister Brianna Beagle-Thorpe.
Surviving Summer
Nominated for Best Editing in Television
A rebel New York teen is shipped off to Australia and makes waves among a young surfer’s inner circle. The story follows Summer’s love of the town, the people, and the surf.
