7th AACTA Awards

The 7th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards took place on 6 December 2017. Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, the awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2017. A record number of thirty five feature films were submitted for competition. The main ceremony was televised in Australia by the Seven Network.

Recipients and nominations

Additional awards

Dangal – Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao and Siddharth Roy Kapur
* Birdshot – Pamela L. Reyes
* I Am Not Madame Bovary – Wang Zhonglei, Zhou Maofei and Hu Xiaofeng
* Kaasav: Turtle – Mohan Agashe, Sunil Sukthankar and Sumitra Bhave
* Our Time Will Come – Roger Lee, Stephen Lam and Ann Hui
* Pink – Shoojit Sircar, Rashmi Sharma, Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar
* Train to Busan – Lee Dong-ha
* Wolf Warrior II – Zhang Miao and Guang Hailong
* Your Name – Genki Kawamura, Katsuhiro Takei, Kouichurou Itou and Yoshihiro Furusawa

RackaRacka – Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Judd Wild and Timani Seve

*Doodles – Charlie Aspinwall, Daley Pearson, Meg O'Connell and Benjamin Zaugg

*High Life – Luke Eve and Adam Dolman

*Superwog – Paul Walton, Theodore Saidden and Nathan Saidden

*The Katering Show Tamasin Simpkin, Kate McCartney, Kate McLennan and Kevin Whyte

Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Glenn Melenhorst, Ineke Majoor, Josh Simmonds – Game of Thrones, episode 4: "The [Spoils of War (Game of Thrones)|The Spoils of War]"

*Jason Billington, James Whitlam, Linda Luong – Deepwater Horizon

*Brendan Seals, Steven Swanson, Raphael A. Pimentel, Andrew Zink – Doctor Strange

*Rob Coleman, Amber Naismith, Miles Green, Damien Gray, Craig Welsh – The Lego Batman Movie

Katherine Brown, Troy Follington, Simon Joseph – Cleverman

*Nikki Gooley, Sheldon Wade – Blue Murder: Killer Cop

*Hayley Atherton, Kate Anderson – Hounds of Love

*Jen Lamphee, Anna Gray, Melissa Chew – Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child

Special awards

Longford Lyell Award – Phillip Noyce
Trailblazer Award – Simon Baker
Byron Kennedy Award – Martin Butler and Bentley Dean