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My Brilliant Career(Movie, 1979)

1h 40min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
My Brilliant CareerRating: 3.1/5 (with 2525 votes)
My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late-19th-century Australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social circumstance, and later by a budding romance. Filmed in the Monaro region, New South Wales in 1978, My Brilliant Career was released in Australia in August 1979, and later premiered in the United States at the New York Film Festival. It received significant critical acclaim, and was nominated for numerous AACTA Awards, winning three, while Davis won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In the United States, it received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. Contemporarily, the film is regarded as being part of th... ()
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Awards & Nominations for My Brilliant Career

AACTA Award for Best Film AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Cinematography AACTA Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Direction Academy Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film AACTA Award for Best Cinematography AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role AACTA Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Direction AACTA Award for Best Editing

About My Brilliant Career

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

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Additional Information

Production country: Australia
Shot in: Australia
Plays in: Australia
Based on: "My Brilliant Career" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 10 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/17/1979
Producer: Margaret Fink
Screenwriter: Eleanor Witcombe
Director of Photography: Donald McAlpine
Composer: Nathan Waks
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Keywords: woman director

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