Academy still sending message that it’s big bucks, not talent, that will win you the top prize
This year’s Australian film and TV awards, the Aactas, took place before a backdrop of controversy: at the weekend the Australian revealed that the academy’s board last year sent a “grovelling apology” to is former president Geoffrey Rush, begging him to return to the position “under any terms you may like to propose”.
The veteran actor is at the centre of a legal case involving allegations of inappropriately touching his co-star of a Sydney Theatre production of King Lear, which he denies. The ensuing defamation case comes at a time of heightened concern about gender issues in Australian film and television, with Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative addressing the underutilisation of female talent, and an Aacta member, Andy Hazel, questioning the industry’s support of misogyny-filled stories.
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