3rd AACTA Awards

3rd AACTA Awards
Date28 January 2014 and
30 January 2014
SiteThe Star Event Centre
Sydney, New South Wales
Hosted byShane Bourne
Highlights
Best FilmThe Great Gatsby
Most awardsFilm: The Great Gatsby (12)
TV: Top of the Lake, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War (3)
Most nominationsFilm: The Great Gatsby (14)
TV: Top of the Lake (10)
Television coverage
NetworkNetwork Ten

The 3rd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as AACTA Awards) are a series of awards which includes the 3rd AACTA Awards Luncheon, the 3rd AACTA Awards ceremony and the 3rd AACTA International Awards. The former two events were held at The Star Event Centre, in Sydney, New South Wales on 28 January and 30 January 2014, respectively.[1] Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), the awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2013. The AACTA Awards ceremony were televised on Network Ten. These awards were a continuum of the Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards), established in 1958 and presented until 2010, which was rebranded the AACTA Awards when the Australian Film Institute (AFI) established AACTA in 2011.[2]

The Academy announced new television craft categories on 16 May 2013. However, a lack of funds and loss of a naming rights sponsor caused other categories to be either discontinued or merged with other awards. This included the merger of documentary craft categories into the new television craft prizes, which caused anger in the documentary making community. Due to the outcry, the Academy announced that it had received industry support and reinstated the documentary craft categories.

The nominees were announced during a press conference on 3 December 2013 in Sydney.[3] The Great Gatsby (2013) received the most feature-film nominations with fourteen, earning a nomination in all categories, except for Best Original Screenplay.[4] In television, Top of the Lake gained the most nominations with ten.[4] Desert War and I Am A Girl earned four nominations each in the documentary field.[4]

  1. ^ "3rd AACTA Awards – Tickets On Sale Now". AACTA. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Awarding screen excellence in Australia". Australian Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  3. ^ Australian Academy announces 3rd AACTA Awards Nominees, renewed partnerships with Destination NSW and The Star, and new partners Foxtel and Audi Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "3rd AACTA Nominees by Production" (PDF). AACTA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.