Leah Purcell in The Drover’s Wife. Photo: Brett Boardman
The 50th annual AWGIE Awards nominees were announced on Thursday.
Two screenplays were nominated for Best Feature Film – Original: the Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated film Hacksaw Ridge (credited to Australian screenwriter Andrew Knight with US writer Robert Schenkkan) and Hounds of Love (the debut feature film for Ben Young, which premiered at the 73rd Annual Venice Film Festival).