3rd AACTA Awards
| 3rd AACTA Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 28 January 2014 and 30 January 2014 |
| Site |
The Star Event Centre Sydney, New South Wales |
| Hosted by | Shane Bourne |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film | The Great Gatsby |
| Most awards | Film: The Great Gatsby (12) TV: Top of the Lake, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War (3) |
| Most nominations | Film: The Great Gatsby (14) TV: Top of the Lake (10) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | Network Ten |
The 3rd Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as AACTA Awards) are a series of awards which includes the 3rd AACTA Awards Luncheon, the 3rd AACTA Awards ceremony and the 3rd AACTA International Awards. The former two events were held at the The Star Event Centre, in Sydney, New South Wales on 28 January and 30 January 2014, respectively. Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), the awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2013. The AACTA Awards ceremony were televised on Network Ten. These awards were a continuum of the Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards), established in 1958 and presented until 2010, which was rebranded the AACTA Awards when the Australian Film Institute (AFI) established AACTA in 2011.
The Academy announced new television craft categories on 16 May 2013. However, a lack of funds and loss of a naming rights sponsor caused other categories to be either discontinued or merged with other awards. This included the merger of documentary craft categories into the new television craft prizes, which caused anger in the documentary making community. Due to the outcry, the Academy announced that it had received industry support and reinstated the documentary craft categories.
The nominees were announced during a press conference on 3 December 2013 in Sydney.The Great Gatsby (2013) received the most feature-film nominations with fourteen, earning a nomination in all categories, except for Best Original Screenplay. In television, Top of the Lake gained the most nominations with ten.Desert War and I Am A Girl earned four nominations each in the documentary field.
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