The Australian drama premiered at Cannes and stars Cate Blanchett.
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy leads the nominations for the 2024 Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Awards with 12 nods, closely followed by horror Talk To Me with 11 nominations.
The New Boy is up for best film, actress for Cate Blanchett and actor for newcomer Aswan Reid while Australian Indigenous filmmaker Thornton is nominated for best director, screenplay and cinematography.
The film is set in 1940s Australia and stars Blanchett (who also serves as a producer) as a nun who takes in a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy. It...
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy leads the nominations for the 2024 Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Awards with 12 nods, closely followed by horror Talk To Me with 11 nominations.
The New Boy is up for best film, actress for Cate Blanchett and actor for newcomer Aswan Reid while Australian Indigenous filmmaker Thornton is nominated for best director, screenplay and cinematography.
The film is set in 1940s Australia and stars Blanchett (who also serves as a producer) as a nun who takes in a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy. It...
- 12/11/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
After Alex Williams graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2012, the actor expected to spend two or three years trying to build his career gradually through stage roles.
How wrong he was. In his first professional audition he won the role of Julian Assange in Robert Connolly.s Network Ten telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story opposite Rachael Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia.
The Perth-born Williams, who now lives in Sydney, has since been back to his hometown twice, to star in John V. Soto.s The Reckoning, which opens on September 4, and in Connolly.s 3D children.s movie Paper Planes, which Roadshow will launch in January.
In between he played Kirk Pengilly in Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart, Shine Australia.s miniseries for the Seven Network. Williams has just finished another TV production, which he.s not allowed to reveal.
Since graduating he hasn.t had...
How wrong he was. In his first professional audition he won the role of Julian Assange in Robert Connolly.s Network Ten telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story opposite Rachael Griffiths and Anthony Lapaglia.
The Perth-born Williams, who now lives in Sydney, has since been back to his hometown twice, to star in John V. Soto.s The Reckoning, which opens on September 4, and in Connolly.s 3D children.s movie Paper Planes, which Roadshow will launch in January.
In between he played Kirk Pengilly in Inxs: Never Tear Us Apart, Shine Australia.s miniseries for the Seven Network. Williams has just finished another TV production, which he.s not allowed to reveal.
Since graduating he hasn.t had...
- 7/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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