The screen media honours list for the Queen’s Birthday Weekend is very thin. Cinematography rightly scored a moment in the limelight, as Russell Boyd became an Officer in the Order of Australia, ‘for distinguished service to the visual arts as a cinematographer of Australian feature films and television productions’, according to the citation.
It was quiet in 2020 too, with screenwriter Jan Sardi and production designer Robbie Perkins standing out, but 2019 was a bonza, bumper list led out by Ita Buttrose with Fiona Cochrane, Suzanne Baker, Sigrid Thornton, Ray Argall, Kerry Heysen-Hicks, Eric Bana and Ken Sutcliffe in the gang.
Here are this 2021’s awardees:
