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Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 My Brilliant Career
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Film Details - Margaret Fink Productions , 1979

Producers:

Margaret Fink.

Production Companies:

Greater Union Organisation, Margaret Fink Productions, and New South Wales Film Corp.

Director of Photography:

Donald McAlpine.

Editors:

Nicholas Beauman.

Production Designers:

Luciana Arrighi.

Music:

Nathan Waks.

Cast:

Including Judy Davis (Sybylla Melvyn), Sam Neill (Harry Beecham), Wendy Hughes (Aunt Helen), Robert Grubb (Frank Hawdon), Max Cullen (Mr McSwatt), Aileen Britton (Grandma Bossier), Peter Whitford (Unclue Julius), and Patricia Kennedy (Aunt Gussie).

Release Dates:

17 August 1979.

Location:

  • Filmed in the Monaro region of New South Wales.

Awards:

  • Best Costume Design (nomination), Oscar, 1981.
  • Cinematographer of the Year, Australian Cinematographers Society, 1981.
  • Best Achievement in Cinematography, AFI Award, 1979.
  • Best Achievement in Costume Design, AFI Award, 1979.
  • Best Achievement in Production Design, AFI Award, 1979.
  • Best Director, AFI Award, 1979.
  • Best Film, AFI Award, 1979.
  • Best Foreign Film (nomination), Golden Globe, 1981.
  • Best Foreign Film, KCFCC (Kansas City Film Critics Circle) Award, 1981.
  • Special Achievement Award (for directorial debut), London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1981.

Notes:

Also known as La mia brillante carriera (Italy), Loistava urani (Finland), Mi brillante carrera (Argentina), Min lysande karriär (Sweden), Moja blyskotliwa kariera (Poland), and Ragyogó karrierem (Hungary).

Subjects:
  • Monaro, Cooma area, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • 1890s
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