My Brilliant Career (1979)
August 17, 1979Release Date
My Brilliant Career (1979)
August 17, 1979Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Judy Davis
Sybylla Melvyn
Sam Neill
Harry Beecham
Wendy Hughes
Aunt Helen
Robert Grubb
Frank Hawdon
Max Cullen
Mr. McSwatt
Aileen Britton
Grandma Bossier
Peter Whitford
Uncle Julius
Patricia Kennedy
Aunt Gussie
Alan Hopgood
Father
Julia Blake
Mother
David Franklin
Horace
Gillian Armstrong
Director
Marion Shad
Gertie
Eleanor Witcombe
Writer
Aaron Wood
Stanley
Miles Franklin
Writer
Sue Davies
Aurora
Margaret Fink
Producer
Gordon Piper
Barman
Nathan Waks
Composer
James Moss
Pub Drinker
Donald McAlpine
Cinematographer
Basil Clarke
Butler
Bill Charlton
Joe
Nicholas Beauman
Editor
Suzanne Roylance
Biddie
Hilary Linstead
CastingDirector
Liz Mullinar
CastingDirector
Zelda Smyth
Ethel
Bobbie Ward
Mrs. Butler
Luciana Arrighi
ProductionDesigner
Amanda Pratt
Blanche Derrick
Dorothy St. Heaps
Mrs. Derrick
Gerry Duggan
Squatter
Babs McMillan
Miss Benson
Carole Skinner
Mrs. McSwatt
Tony Hughes
Peter McSwat
Tina Robinson Hansen
Lizer McSwat
Aaron Corrin
Jimmy McSwat
Sharon Crouch
Sarah McSwat
Robert Austin
Willie McSwat
Mark Spain
Tommy McSwat
Simone Buchanan
Mary Anne
Hayley Joye
Rosie Jane
Kathleen Percival
Baby
Ray Meagher
Mailman (uncredited)
Jane Scott
Associate Producer
Jill Porter
Makeup Artist
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 17, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingG
Filming LocationsAustralia
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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 the Australian New Wave of cinema. In 2018, it underwent restoration by the Australian National Sound and Film Archive, and was issued on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection the following year.