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Here's everything you need to know about today's AACTA Awards

It's been billed as Australia's answer to the Golden Globes — or even the Oscars, depending on who you ask — and the stars are gathering for the ceremony on the Gold Coast.
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The Oscars will (finally) start awarding Best Casting, so here are five films that should have won

The Oscars have added a new category for the first time in more than two decades, with casting set to be honoured alongside acting, writing and directing. Here are five films we wish were honoured at the time.
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'You can't take your eyes off it': Meet the director behind one of the year's best movies so far

Todd Haynes's new movie May December stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore as an actor and her subject, as Moore's past transgressions return to the fore.
Todd Haynes and Natalie Portman pose together in front of a view of the shoreline at Cannes.

No Oscar for Margot? We unpacked the (many) snubs and surprises from this year's nominations

Barbie's Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig miss out on key Oscar nominations, while Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer picks up 13 nods. Here's the full list.
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Here are all the winners from the Critics Choice Awards

Here are all the winners from the 2024 Critics Choice Awards, where Barbie and Oppenheimer are once again competing for the top prize.
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Bradley Cooper delivers Oscar-worthy performance in his 'swooning biopic' Maestro

Cooper follows up his 2018 directorial debut A Star Is Born with an ambitious portrayal of the life of legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.
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Joel Edgerton's new Hollywood film has divided critics — which he says is what its director wanted

The Australian actor hopes Master Gardener, the new film by veteran director and screenwriter Paul Schrader, will spark debate.
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'I love Australia': Golden Globe winner Julia Garner's new film The Royal Hotel explores outback SA

Ozark star Julia Garner's latest film follows the journey of two young American women backpacking across outback South Australia.
Jessica Henwick and Julia Garner filming for The Royal Hotel.

'A great reckoning of our history': Leonardo DiCaprio talks Martin Scorsese's new film, Killers of The Flower Moon

Hollywood royalty Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro team up with Lily Gladstone to bring to the big screen the true events that rocked the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. 
Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro stand side-by-side in characters of Killers of the Moon film

The Marvels has had the MCU's worst opening weekend at the box office. What went wrong?

Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest movie instalment, The Marvels, has had a disappointing opening weekend at the box office, recording $US47 million in sales in the US — the lowest amount the comic book franchise has recorded to date. 
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'We went for the throat': Matrix producer brings horror show to Tiktok in one-minute episodes

In one-minute snippets, writers and directors of a new Western Sydney series need to grab their audience, because, unlike a movie screen, their film is being shown on phones across the world.
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New Martin Scorsese film exposes America's shameful past of genocidal violence

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese returns with a devastating yet beautifully rendered film exposing America's shameful history of genocidal violence.
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A deeply affecting mother-daughter bond forms the heart of this new Australian film

Shayda, the feature debut of Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari, is Australia's official contender for Best International Feature Film at next year's Oscars.
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In just 39 minutes Wes Anderson brings The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar to life

Theatrics, decorative wallpaper and the good in people: Wes Anderson brings his whimsy to Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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Team Human or Team Robot? New film The Creator takes a surprising side

Is AI only as evil as the people who created it? Rogue One director Gareth Edwards puts man against machine in his latest sci-fi action epic The Creator.
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Kenneth Branagh teams up with Tina Fey to solve a supernatural mystery in new Poirot 'boo-dunnit'

Agatha Christie's iconic detective is lured by his mystery novelist friend to investigate a murder most spooky in A Haunting in Venice.
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New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie delivers 'a cinematic pizza-with-the lot'

Writer Seth Rogen and director Jeff Rowe pay homage to their 90s childhoods in a fast and funny animated film packed with neurotic banter and pop culture references.
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Celine Song explores 'destined connection' in tender directorial debut Past Lives

Song's debut film, Past Lives, which has received critical acclaim, explores the connections made between people and the yearning for paths not travelled.
Actors Greta Lee and Teo Yoo sit on a ferry in the film Past Lives.

Bradley Cooper has been accused of 'Jewface' over his new movie — here's what that means

This is not the first time prosthetic noses have popped up on screen and caused controversies towards the Jewish community.
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Mad Max director George Miller reveals his views on creativity, faith and living as a 'verb'

Best known for his Mad Max franchise, Happy Feet and Babe, George Miller reflects on the thinkers who influenced him, most notably the American futurist Buckminster Fuller who taught the filmmaker to think of himself as a verb.
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Oscar-winning director William Friedkin dead at 87

The director, best known for his blockbuster hits The Exorcist and The French Connection, died in Los Angeles.
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Barbie has reached the 'Barbillion' milestone. Experts say its marketing was a 'masterclass'

Just three weeks after its release, Greta Gerwig's Barbie has collected more than $1 billion at the global box office — and it's on track to become the biggest movie of the year.
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Greta Gerwig has made box office history with Barbie. Here's your guide to her previous films

Barbie is a certified smash hit at the box office, with Greta Gerwig breaking the record for the biggest opening weekend for a film directed by a woman. So, who is she, and what is she planning next?
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Only two people in Australia know how to show Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in its full IMAX glory

There is only one IMAX 1570 film print of the new-release epic in the southern hemisphere, and the only two projectionists trained to show it are treating the spool like "liquid gold". 
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Barbie went from a stick-thin blonde to saris and nose rings. But has she changed enough?

Sixty-four years ago, women all around the world couldn't see themselves as Barbie: a stick-thin doll with big-boobs, blonde hair and blue eyes. Three women share whether that's changed for them.
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