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AACTA Industry Awards Winners 2021

The first batch of AACTA winners includes editing, sound and cinematography. Composer Caitlin Yeo won for two scores, and Dylan River won for cinematography in The Beach.

7 Dec 2021 14:53

Rochelle Siemienowicz

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AACTA Award-winning productions L-R: Nitram, High Ground, The Dry, The Tailings, Elle & Abbie, Fisk, New Gold Mountain, The Newsreader, and Fires.

The AACTA Industry Awards were announced last night, presented by Foxtel Group, in a low key virtual ceremony hosted by comedian Claire Hooper. Honouring the work of Australia’s screen craft practitioners, 31 awards were revealed, with more to come on Wednesday night at the flashy televised Sydney Opera House ceremony, complete with red carpet.

SBS’s New Gold Mountain and the ABC’s The Newsreader and Fires were the biggest winners of the Industry Awards, taking home half the categories.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.