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This is becoming repetitive. Not a week seems to go by without a new film award. Just a few days
ago Geoffrey Rush was in Los Angeles helping hand out
AACTA gongs to the
Gumleaf Mafia and LA locals like
Meryl Streep. That was followed by the
SAG Awards a few days later.
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Last night he looked bright eyed and bushy tailed at the
Sydney Opera House handing out more AACTAs to those in the local film industry.
He had some help from colleague
Cate Blanchett. Actually that is the
Samsung AACTA Awards. It's the re-incarnation of the Australian Film Awards and Samsung have put a hefty sum behind the whole deal hence the media were invited
inside to the Opera House instead of being, as is film publicist's wont, bundled into some pen alongside the red carpet out in the elements. So we in the meejah are now very fond of Samsung and almost as happy as actor
Simon Baker who keeps popping up on television promoting Samsung products for a reputed $3M a year.
The "Australian equivalent of the Oscars" went off without a hitch and anyone who has done anything in an Aussie film was there including some who haven't like
Miranda Kerr. And there was a bar for the media.
The big winner was the film
Red Dog judged Best Film. It's a charming feel good movie that was inexpensive to make which should delight the producers as not only has it been a box office success, animals don't get residuals.
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And
Judy Davis-who
Woody Allen reckons is the "
best actress in the world" won Best Actress for
Eye Of The Storm which is based on the book by the crankiest ever
Nobel Prize winner
Patrick White.
Olivia Newton John, Anthony La Paglia and Magda Szubanski were there as was
Shutle pal
Jaqui Weaver who was up for an Oscar last year. She spent a few hours regailing us in the bar and roaring with laughter over some very risque tales of Jacqui's after Oscar party experiences, plus
Claudia Karvan who is still having difficult recalling how the
Shuttle bounced her on our knee in her dad's bar Athurs in Kings Cross (innocently of course!) when she was seven.
Miranda Otto and her sis
Gracie Otto and their dad
Barry Otto attended. And Barry is the man that
Sir John Gielgug once said was the best actor in the world.
SNOWTOWN picked up a gong and qute right too. It's a pretty gruesome true life tale but well made and based on the shocking serial murders where ten bodies were found dumped in barrels of acid n a disused bank vault in Snowton in South Australia. Done wonders for the tourism trade I'm told.
