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Inaugurated in 2011 and first presented in 2012 (for the 2011 award year).
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2018
winner form y
Boy Erased
( dir. Joel Edgerton
)
United States of America (USA)
:
Anonymous Content
Blue Tongue Films
Focus Features
Perfect World Pictures
,
2018
14958646
2018
single work
film/TV
'The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.' (Production summary)
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Year: 2017
winner form y
Lion
( dir. Garth Davis
)
Australia
:
Screen Australia
See Saw Films
Sunstar Entertainment
The Weinstein Company
,
2016
8160821
2016
single work
film/TV
'A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 later, he sets out to find his lost family.' (Production summary)
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Year: 2016
winner form y
The Daughter
( dir. Simon Stone
)
Australia
:
Fate Films Pty Ltd
,
2015
8225015
2015
single work
film/TV
'The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.' (Production summary)
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Year: 2013
winner (Feature Film) form y
The Great Gatsby
( dir. Baz Luhrmann
)
Australia
United States of America (USA)
:
Warner Brothers
Village Roadshow
A&E Television Networks
,
2013
Z1934236
2013
single work
film/TV
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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Year: 2012
winner form y
The Sapphires
( dir. Wayne Blair
)
Australia
:
Goalpost Pictures
,
2012
Z1809626
2012
single work
film/TV
(taught in 1 units)
'Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented - and they've never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they're plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia's answer to The Supremes, and - grasping the chance of a lifetime - dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops.' Source: www.encoremagazine.com.au/ (Sighted 26/09/2011).
