13th AACTA Awards

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13th AACTA Awards
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Date8 February 2024 (2024-02-08) (industry luncheon)
10 February 2024 (2024-02-10) (main ceremony)
Location Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Hosted by Rebel Wilson
Most nominations The Newsreader
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The 13th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as the AACTA Awards) is an awards ceremony to celebrate the best Australian films and television of 2023. The main ceremony took place on the afternoon of 10 February 2024 at the Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast, and was broadcast on Network 10 and Arena.

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Previously held towards the end of each year, the date in early 2024 instead of December 2023 was designed to bring the Australian ceremony in line with the global awards season and the international awards schedule. [1] [2]

In 2024, the previously single award for Best Casting was split by film and television. Awards for Comedy were expanded to include Best Acting in a Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Program and Best Online Drama or Comedy.

The nominations were announced on 8 December 2023. [1]

Film

The nominations are as follows, with the 2024 category winners in bold at the top of each section: [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]

  • Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman – Talk to Me
    • Goran Stolevski – Of an Age
    • Noora Niasari – Shayda
    • Warwick Thornton – The New Boy
    • Kitty Green, Oscar ReddingThe Royal Hotel
  • Cornel Wilczek – Talk to Me
  • Emma Bortignon, Pete Smith, Nick Steele – Talk to Me
    • Benni Knop – Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
    • Stuart Morton & Cameron Grant – Scarygirl
    • Sam Hayward, Angus Robertson, Guntis Sics, Danielle Wiessner – Seriously Red
    • Anthony Marsh – Three Chords and the Truth
  • Emily Seresin – Carmen
    • Lien See Leong – Blueback
    • Tim Chappel – Seriously Red
    • Heather Wallace – The New Boy
    • Ellen Stanistreet – The Rooster
Best Casting
  • Anousha Zarkesh – Shayda
    • Allison Meadows & Keziah Morgan – Run Rabbit Run
    • Jane Norris – Sweet As
    • Anousha Zarkesh – The New Boy
    • Kirsty McGregor – The Royal Hotel

Television

Best Comedy Entertainment Program
Best Factual Entertainment Program
Best Lifestyle Program
Best Reality Series
Best Stand-Up Special
Best Comedy Performer
Best Acting in a Comedy
Best Direction in Non-Fiction Television
Best Casting
  • Alison Telford & Kate Leonard – Deadloch
    • Kirsty McGregor & Stevie Ray – Colin From Accounts
    • Nathan Lloyd – Safe Home
    • Jane Norris – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
    • Nathan Lloyd – The Newsreader
Best Cinematography in Television
  • Sam Chiplin – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Episode 1)
    • Aaron Farrugia – Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe (Episode 1)
    • Katie Milwright – Deadloch (Episode 1)
    • Tania Lambert – Erotic Stories (Episode 2)
    • Earle Dresner – The Newsreader (Episode 4)
Best Costume Design in Television
  • Zed Dragojlovich – The Newsreader (Episode 4)
    • Xanthe Heubel – Ten Pound Poms (Episode 1)
    • Lisa Galea Gunning – The Claremont Murders (Episode 1)
    • Erin Roche – The Clearing (Episode 1)
    • Nina Edwards – While The Men Are Away (Episode 2)
Best Editing in Television
  • Angie Higgins – Deadloch (Episode 1)
    • Peter Bennett – Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe (Episode 1)
    • Danielle Boesenberg – Colin From Accounts (Episode 3)
    • Deborah Peart – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Episode 1)
    • Deborah Peart & Dany CooperThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Episode 6)
    • Angie Higgins – The Newsreader (Episode 4)
Best Production Design in Television
  • Melinda DoringThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Episode 1)
    • Jonathon Oxlade – Beep and Mort (Episode 2)
    • Helen O'Loan – Black Snow (Episode 1)
    • Emma Fletcher – Deadloch (Episode )
    • Simon McCutcheon – Gold Diggers (Episode 3)
    • Paddy Reardon – The Newsreader (Episode 4)
Best Original Music Score in Television
Best Sound in Television
  • David Lee, Robert Mackenzie, Leah Katz, James Ashton – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Episode 6)
    • Mark Cornish, Tom Heuzenroeder, Justin Spasevski, Robert MackenzieBlack Snow (Episode 6)
    • Grant Shepherd – Last King of the Cross (Episode 4)
    • Roger van Wensveen, David Williams, Ralph Ortner – The Clearing (Episode 1)
    • Nick Godkin, Ralph Ortner, Lee Yee, Liesl Pieterse – The Newsreader (Episode 6)

Documentary

Best Editing in a Documentary
  • Andrea Lang, Mark Atkin, Hilary Balmond – The Australian Wars
    • Patrick McCabe – Because We Have Each Other
    • Peter Crombie, Lawrie Silvestrin – Folau
    • Simon Njoo, Pete Ward – Harley & Katya
    • Aleck Morton, Lydia Springhall – Queerstralia
Best Cinematography in a Documentary
  • Sherwin Akbarzadeh – The Giants
    • Nick Robinson, Jack Riley, Ashley Gibb, Caspar Mazzotti – Australia's Wild Odyssey
    • Caspar Mazzotti, Cam Batten, Nick Robinson, Miles Rowland – Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival
    • Simon Morris – The Dark Emu Story
    • Alex Serafini – This is Going To Be Big
Best Original Music Score in a Documentary
Best Sound in a Documentary

Short film and Online

Best Short Film
Best Online Drama or Comedy
  • Latecomers – Liam Heyen, Hannah Ngo, Angus Thompson, Emma Myers, Nina Oyama, Madeleine Gottlieb, Alistair Baldwin (Mad Ones Films & Lazy Susan Films)
    • Appetite – Mohini Herse, Karen Radzyner (Fell Swoop Pictures & Photoplay Films)
    • Me & Her(pes) – Gemma Bird Matheson, Hannah Ngo, Kasia Vickery, Vic Zerbst (Chips & Gravy Films in association with Lazy Susan Films)
    • Monologue – Jim Wright, Elise Trenorden, Nicholas Clifford, Nina Oyama (Truce Films)
    • The Disposables – Karen Radzyner, Renny Wijeyamohan, Sonia Whiteman, Keir Wilkins (Photoplay Films & Dragonet Films)
    • The Future of EverythingNicholas Colla, Mike Greaney, Nicolette Minster (LateNite)

Additional awards

Audience Choice Award for Favourite Film
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Television Show
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Actor
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Actress
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Australian Media Personality
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Australian Digital Creator
  • Kat Clark and family (@katclark)
    • Anna Paul (@anna..paull)
    • Bridey Drake (@brideydrake)
    • Georgia Productions (@Georgia)
    • Indy Clinton (@indyclinton)
    • Luke and Sassy Scott (@lukeandsassyscott)
    • Maddy MacRae (@maddy_macrae_)
    • Sofia Ligeros (@sofialigeros)
Audience Choice Award for Favourite Australian Sports Moment

Individual awards

The Trailblazer Award
The Brian Walsh Award
  • Ngali Shaw
The Reg Grundy Award

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