Star line-up for the ACCTA Awards.

Nicole Kidman will be jetting into Sydney for this year's ACCTA Awards next Wednesday evening. She'll be joined by Vance Joy and Katie Noonan who will perform alongside a star-studded line-up of presenters and guests, including nominees  Simon Baker, Deborah Mailman and Bruce Beresford.

Whispers will be there of course at the The Star Event Centre with bells on to bring our readers all the action.

And what a line-up of talent:

Host Stephen Curry will be joined by top Australian film and television talent who will take to the stage to present, including: Rebecca Gibney, Marta Dusseldorp, Jack Thompson, Sigrid Thornton, Rodger Corser, Erik Thomson, Julia Zemiro, Shane Jacobson, Fred Schepisi, Nazeem Hussain and Kat Stewart, as well as KATH AND KIM’s Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski.

Jumping for Joy at Tropfest

Dan Ilic jumps for joy on the black carpet.

The Tropfest short film festival is back in a big way and superstars turned out to support the founder John Polson as our snaps show : Rebecca Gibney, Mel Gibson ( pictured below with John Polson) and Simon Baker.
Winners of this year's prize were animators Spencer Susser and Daniel Cloud-Campos.
whose stop-frame animation with real clothing called Shi picked up the gong.

 

And well worth reading is Gary Maddox's article in the Sydney Morning Herald about some of the woes that bedeviled Tropfest. 

Given the recent background of the festival, it's remarkable that John Polson has been able to resurrect the popular event so quickly.

Women of Style

In Style Magazine held their annual shindig of top looking gals at the Horden Pavilion. Lots of familiar faces- so familiar we saw most of them at last week's parties but who are we too complain when there's some top nosh on offer washed down by Piper Heidsieck !  
Melissa Doyle hosted and songbird Jessica Mauboy entertained and it was nice to see some of our acting fraternity on the red carpet including Claudia Karvan, Rachel Griffiths, Rebecca Gibney and Susie Porter.

Danielle Spencer            Jessica Mauboy                   Melissa Doyle           Rachel Griffiths            Teri Biviano

Sunburnt Superstar

 Tropfest 2013 was held for the last time yesterday in The Domain. In it's 21st year founder John Polson announced a change of venue- Centennial Park and date- December.
100,000 viewer turned up for the evening of short films and this year's judges included a sunburnt Sam Worthington, Magda Szubanski , Richard Roxburgh and Rebecca Gibney

 Nicholas Clifford's We've All Been There  won first prize while second prize went to the only documentary, Better Than Sinatra.

Indiana Evans

Josh Thomas

Magda Szubanski

Richard Roxburgh and Silvia Colloca

Kate Miller Heidke

Rebecca Gibney