5th AACTA Awards

5th AACTA Awards
Date30 November 2015 and
9 December 2015
SiteThe Star Event Centre
Sydney, New South Wales
Highlights
Best FilmMad Max: Fury Road
Most awardsMad Max: Fury Road (7)
Most nominationsThe Dressmaker (13)
Television coverage
NetworkSeven Network
Arena
Ratings419,000 [1]

The 5th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as AACTA Awards) are a series of awards which includes the 5th AACTA Awards Luncheon, the 5th AACTA Awards ceremony and the 5th AACTA International Awards. The former two events were held at The Star Event Centre, in Sydney, New South Wales in late 2015.[2] Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), the awards celebrate the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2015. The AACTA Awards ceremony televised on Seven Network for the fourth year running. The 5th 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.[3]

The nominees were announced during a press conference on 31 October 2015 at The Star hôtel in Sydney.[4] The Dressmaker received the most feature-film nominations with thirteen, earning a nomination in most of the categories.[5]

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