This year, five Aussie films will battle it out to win the first People’s Choice Award for Favourite Australian Film at the AACTAs. And the nominees are…
1
Paper Planes
An Aussie kid from the outback who is trying to reconnect with his father discovers he has a knack at paper plane throwing and enters a competition that could see him compete internationally.
2
Mad Max: Fury Road
In a dystopian future, a female warrior Furiosa (Charlize Theron) invokes the rage of a tyrant leader and kicks off an epic desert car chase when she escapes with his prized female breeders to find her homeland.
3
Last Cab to Darwin
Michael Caton makes a stunning return to form as a loner cabbie who takes off on a road trip across Australia to die on his own terms after being told he doesn’t have long left to live.
4
Oddball
An eccentric chicken farmer (played by Shane Jacobson) trying to reunite his family, calls on his granddaughter to help him train his cheeky dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary under danger from fox attacks.
5
The Dressmaker
Tilly Dunnage scandalously returns to her rural Australian home town afters years away working for famous Parisian and European fashion houses, and let’s just say Tilly transforms the town fashion-wise and otherwise.
