Tag: Baz Luhrmann

Catherine Martin has taken the Academy Award for Production Design for her work on The Great Gatsby, becoming Australia's most prolific Oscar winner.

Cate Blanchett has dedicated her third BAFTA win to her late friend, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Australia: Shifting Sands is a BFI retrospective of Australian cinema over the last two decades, tracing the emergence of Indigenous voices and stories captured on the big screen.

Elliot Wheeler, film composer and music arranger, has applied his prodigious skills to his own creation with his debut album The Long Time. He talks to BONNIE GARDINER about drawing inspiration from iconic films, including his latest — Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

Moviegoers and literature fans have been anticipating the release of Baz Luhrmann’s big screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which officially opened the Cannes Film Festival last week. The movie enjoyed it's première in Australia on Wednesday night, at a star-studded event held at Sydney's Fox Studios.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann has told media in Cannes he expected criticism over The Great Gatsby, but he’s humbled by its early success.