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British actor John Hurt, whose careered spanned more than 50 years and included roles in Harry Potter, The Elephant Man, Alien, and Australian film The Proposition, has died.
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| UpdatedVeteran actor Sir John Hurt, famous for his roles in Alien, Harry Potter and The Elephant Man dies aged 77.
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| UpdatedAn historical documentary featuring the Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will shed light on a relatively unknown aspect of Australia's colonisation where Aboriginal people were stolen, stripped and exhibited as attractions in a human zoo.
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| UpdatedThe historical lack of understanding of transgender people is evident in a tendency to depict them as objects of comedy or as freakish monsters.
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| UpdatedShe is venomous, eats her mate after sex and is the epitome of female power — Cate Blanchett is the Australian redback spider.
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| UpdatedWhen news broke that the feature film Tanna - shot on the Vanuatu island of the same name - had been nominated for an academy award, the south Pacific celebrated.
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Moonlight's sophisticated depiction of conflicted masculinity deserves to beat La La Land for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
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| UpdatedOne of the directors of the Oscar-nominated Australian film Tanna, set in Vanuatu and based on a true story, says getting the chance to take his cast of first-time actors to Hollywood's night of nights is a dream come true.
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Bentley Dean co-directed and co-produced Tanna shot on the island of Vanuatu in the Navhal language
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| UpdatedThe film Tanna, shot in Vanuatu and characterised as the South Pacific version of Romeo and Juliet, has been nominated for the best foreign language Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood next month.
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| UpdatedLa La Land scores a record-tying 14 Academy Awards nominations, while Australian film Lion scoops six nods and Aussies including Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson also enter the Oscars race.
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| UpdatedNominations for the 2017 Oscars will be announced tonight. So who actually makes the call for nominees?
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Film armourer John Bowring discusses the safety precautions used on film sets, what might have gone wrong in the Bliss n Eso music video shooting, and how the industry could improve safety.
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| UpdatedStar Wars fans are in a tizzy over the newly announced title of the next film in the series, fearing it implies Luke Skywalker will die in episode eight.
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| UpdatedA leaked video showing a frightened dog trying to resist being thrown into water on the set of A Dog's Purpose has prompted calls for the film to be boycotted.
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| UpdatedThe new Hollywood blockbuster, Split, by M Night Shyamalan has been condemned by the mental health community for its depiction of mental illness.
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| UpdatedThe makers of Star Wars put a quick end to rumours that the late Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia will be digitally recreated in future episodes of the movie saga.
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| UpdatedBritish broadcaster Sky cancels an episode about Michael Jackson in the upcoming TV series Urban Myths after heavy backlash from the Jackson family.
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| UpdatedParis Jackson says the whitewashing of her late father in an upcoming TV series is "insulting" and makes her "want to vomit".
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