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Halt Disney! Flow’s director, and fellow upstart animators, on a new era for the artform

At the Academy Awards last weekend, a little Latvian film scooped the prize for best animation. Here its creator Gints Zilbalodis, and other Oscar nominees of micro-budget films, discuss taking risks and challenging the big studios

The Guardian - UK

Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here

The Guardian - UK

Memoir of a Snail review – Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation is brilliantly bleak

In this Oscar-nominated tragicomedy, Sarah Snook is the voice of a loner whose relentless misfortune is tempered only by a bond with her pet snails

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Memoir of a Snail review: this Oscar-nominated animation with Sarah Snook is a darkly funny, oddball delight

4/5 Adam Elliot’s stop-motion tale of twins separated as children in Australia is an enchantingly weird life lesson for us all

Evening Standard

2025 AACTA Awards: All The Winners Who Scored Big On Aussie Film & TV’s Big Night

The 14th annual AACTA Awards occurred on February 7, 2025. 'Better Man' and 'Boy Swallows Universe' saw the biggest wins.

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9 Australians can now vote for the Golden Globes – but Aussiewood came up empty

Nominations galore, but no wins for Aussiewood at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday.

The Conversation

The 10 best Australian films of 2024: from creepy horror to sublime claymation

Our critic counts down the picks of this year’s bunch – a particularly edgy lot, featuring morbid jokes, profound loss and demonic possessions

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Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations

Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel lands 22 nominations, the most in Aacta history, while Williams’ Melbourne-made biopic sets new record for film with 16 nominations

The Guardian - AU

How colour became a character in Memoir of a Snail, with the help of DaVinci Resolve Studio

Colorist Deidre (Dee) McClelland CSI shares her creative process.

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BFI London Film Festival 2024 – a cinema academic’s look at the year ahead on the big screen

This year’s London Film Festival boasted 254 feature and short films, with an all-time high of 44% of the films screened by female and non-binary directors. But the festival’s most newsworthy event concerned a film that wasn’t screened at all.

The Conversation

‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival

Jury names Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail as best film in first for stop-motion feature

The Guardian - UK

Overtly handmade and so very moving: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of A Snail is a stop motion triumph

Stop motion films are by their nature a remarkable feat. When you know a movie has been carefully crafted, over several years and through thousands of photographs of handmade sets and characters, this alone makes it a delight to watch.

The Conversation

The best films to see at the London Film Festival 2024: from Blitz to Nightbitch

Steve McQueen’s new Second World War drama to the Cannes winner - these are the buzziest must-see watches from this year’s festival

Evening Standard

Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

The Australian filmmaker of Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max has long cherished the deadly and deadpan. His latest stars Sarah Snook as a collector of ornamental snails – and draws from a family history of hoarding

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What this unusual Canberra sign has to do with the Oscars

'Caution! This sign has sharp edges.'

The Guardian - AU

From Furiosa to Nicolas Cage: 10 Australian films to watch in 2024

The Mad Max franchise returns, a Hollywood star plays an Aussie surfer and an Indigenous horror feature to premiere at Sundance – here’s what to look out for this year

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