4th AACTA Awards

4th AACTA Awards
Date27 January 2015 and
29 January 2015
SiteThe Star Event Centre
Sydney, New South Wales
Hosted byCate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman[1]
Highlights
Best FilmThe Babadook
The Water Diviner
Most awardsPredestination (4)
Most nominationsFilm: Predestination (9) & The Water Diviner (9)
TV: The Code (10)
Television coverage
NetworkNetwork Ten
Arena
Ratings297,000[2]

The 4th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as AACTA Awards) are a series of awards which includes the 4th AACTA Awards Luncheon, the 4th AACTA Awards ceremony and the 4th AACTA International Awards. The former two events will be held at The Star Event Centre, in Sydney, New South Wales in late January 2015.[3] Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), the awards will celebrate the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2014. The AACTA Awards ceremony will be televised on Network Ten for the third year running. The 4th AACTA Awards are a continuum of the Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards), established in 1958 and presented until 2010 after which it was rebranded the AACTA Awards when the Australian Film Institute (AFI) established AACTA in 2011.[4]

The nominees were announced during a press conference on 2 December 2014 at The Star hotel in Sydney.[5] Predestination and The Water Diviner received the most feature-film nominations with nine, earning a nomination in most of the categories, except for Best Sound. In television, The Code gained the most nominations with ten. Ukraine is Not a Brothel earned six nominations in the documentary field.[6]

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  2. ^ Schembri, Jim (2 February 2015). "Opinion:AACTA awards proved two things about Australian film and television". 3AW (Radio 3AW Melbourne Pty Ltd (Fairfax Media)). Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  3. ^ "AACTA invites sponsors for 2015". mUmBRELLA (Focal Attractions). 5 May 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Awarding screen excellence in Australia". Australian Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  5. ^ Groves, Don (3 December 2014). "Predestination, The Code lead AACTA noms". If.com.au. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  6. ^ "AACTA AWARDS 2014: All the nominees". SBS Movies. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.