8th AACTA Awards

Australian film and television awards ceremony
8th AACTA Awards
Date3 December 2018
Television/radio coverage
NetworkSeven Network
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The 8th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as the AACTA Awards) is an awards ceremony to celebrate Australian films of 2018. The main ceremony was televised on Seven Network. First awards were presented on 3 December 2018.[1]

Feature film

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  • Sweet Country – David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin
    • Boy Erased – Joel Edgerton, Steve Golin, Kerry Kohansky Roberts
    • Breath – Simon Baker, Jamie Hilton, Mark Johnson
    • Cargo – Russell Ackerman, Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings, Mark Patterson
    • Ladies in Black – Sue Milliken, Allanah Zitserman
  • Nick Meyers – Sweet Country
    • Dany Cooper – Breath
    • Mark Warner – Ladies in Black
    • Andy Canny – Upgrade
  • Jed Dodge, Trevor Hope, Robert Mackenzie, Tara Webb – Breath
    • Liam Egan, Leah Katz, Des Kenneally, Robert Sullivan – Cargo
    • Sam Gain-Emery, Thom Kellar, Will Sheridan, David Tranter – Sweet Country
    • Will Files, P.K. Hooker, Andrew Ramage – Upgrade
  • Roger Ford, Lisa Thompson – Peter Rabbit
    • Jo Ford – Cargo
    • Felicity Abbott, Katie Sharrock – Upgrade
    • Vanessa Cerne, Matthew Putland – Winchester

Television

  • Riot – Joanna Werner, Louise Smith
    • Dead Lucky – Ellie Beaumont, Drew Proffitt, Diane Haddon
    • Friday On My Mind – David Taylor, David Maher, Diane Haddon, Christopher Lee
    • Picnic at Hanging Rock – Jo Porter, Brett Popplewell
    • Safe Harbour – Stephen Corvini, Debbie Lee
Best Lifestyle Program
Best Reality Series
  • Safe Harbour - Episode 1 – Belinda Chayko
    • Mr Inbetween - Episode 2: Unicorns Know Everybody's Name – Scott Ryan
    • Mystery Road - Episode 5: The Waterhole – Timothy Lee, Kodie Bedford, Steven McGregor, Michaeley O’Brien
    • Riot – Greg Waters
Best Non-Fiction Television Direction
  • Bruce Permezel – Hawke: The Larrikin and the Leader - Episode 1: The Apprenticeship
  • Larissa Behrendt – After The Apology
  • David Batty – Black As
  • Aaron Smith, Kirk Docker – You Can't Ask That - Episode 1: Survivors of Sexual Assault
Best Cinematography in Television
  • Garry Phillips – Picnic at Hanging Rock - Episode 1
    • Henry Pierce – A Place to Call Home - Episode 1: For Better or Worse
    • Mark Wareham – Mystery Road - Episode 4: Silence
    • Sam Chiplin – Safe Harbour - Episode 1
Best Editing in Television
  • Deborah Peart – Mystery Road - Episode 5: The Waterhole
    • Mark Perry – Friday On My Mind - Part 1
    • Geoff Hitchins – Picnic at Hanging Rock - Episode 1
    • Geoffrey Lamb – Riot
Best Sound in Television
  • Greg Burgmann, Frank Lipson, Andrew McGrath – Romper Stomper - Episode 3: Poetry
    • Luke Mynott, Wes Chew, Ben Osmo, Cihan Saral – Friday On My Mind - Part 1
    • Andrew Neil, Paul Pirola, Frank Lipson, Ann Aucote – Picnic at Hanging Rock - Episode 1
    • Paul 'Salty' Brincat, Paul Pirola, Andrew Neil – Safe Harbour - Episode 1
Best Original Music Score in Television
Best Production Design in Television
  • Jo Ford – Picnic at Hanging Rock - Episode 1
    • Fiona Donovan – A Place to Call Home - Episode 1: For Better or Worse
    • Tim Ferrier, Nancy Dentice – Friday On My Mind - Part 1
    • Pete Baxter – Riot
Best Costume Design in Television
  • Edie Kurzer – Picnic at Hanging Rock - Episode 1
    • Lisa Meagher – A Place to Call Home - Episode 1: For Better or Worse
    • Liz McGregor – The New Legends of Monkey - Episode 1
    • Xanthe Heubel – Riot

Documentary and short film

  • Gurrumul – Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan
    • Ghosthunter – Ben Lawrence, Rebecca Bennett
    • Jill Bilcock: Dancing The Invisible – Axel Grigor, Faramarz K-Rahber
    • Mountain – Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan
    • Working Class Boy – Mark Joffe, Matt Campbell, Andrew Farrell, Michael Cordell
Best Documentary Television Program
  • Employable Me – Karina Holden, Sue Clothier, Jenni Wilks
Best Short Fiction Film
  • All These Creatures – Charles Williams, Elise Trenorden
    • Judas Collar – Alison James, Brooke Silcox
    • Nursery Rhymes – Tom Noakes, Lucy Gaffy, Morgan Benson-Taylor, Will Goodfellow
    • Tangles and Knots – Renée Marie Petropoulos, Yingna Lu
  • Lost and Found – Lucy Hayes, Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe
    • IRONY – Radheya Jegatheva
    • Monster's Playground – Seamus Spilsbury, Darcy Prendergast, Christina Remnant
    • Peepin’ – Haein Kim, Paul Rhodes
Best Editing in a Documentary
  • Karen Johnson – Ghosthunter
    • Shannon Swan, Ken Sallows – Gurrumul
    • Johanna Scott – Have You Seen The Listers?
    • Christian Gazal, Scott Gray – Mountain
Best Cinematography in a Documentary
  • Renan Ozturk – Mountain
    • Hugh Miller – Ghosthunter
    • Dan Maxwell, Katie Milwright, Matt Toll, Gavin Head – Gurrumul
    • Michael Latham – Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Best Original Music Score in a Documentary
Best Sound in a Documentary
  • David White, Robert Mackenzie – Mountain

References

  1. ^ Harmon, Steph (2018-12-03). "Aactas 2018: Sweet Country and Ladies in Black lead early categories". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  2. ^ "Winners & Nominees". Aacta.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

External links

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