My Brilliant Career

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Australian film coming-of-age film drama film film

My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on Miles Franklin’s novel, about a young woman defying social expectations in rural Australia.

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instanceOf Australian film →
coming-of-age film →
drama film →
film →
authorOfSourceWork Miles Franklin →
award AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role →
surface form: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction →
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film →
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design nomination →
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay →
surface form: BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay nomination
basedOn My Brilliant Career self-linksurface differs →
surface form: My Brilliant Career (novel)
cinematographyBy Donald McAlpine →
countryOfOrigin Australia →
director Gillian Armstrong →
distributor Greater Union →
distributorUSA New Yorker Films →
editor Nicholas Beauman →
filmFormat color →
filmingLocation New South Wales →
genre coming-of-age →
drama →
hasFilmRatingAustralia PG →
mainCharacter Sybylla Melvyn →
musicBy Nathan Waks →
notableFor Gillian Armstrong’s feature directorial debut →
early landmark of the Australian New Wave cinema →
originalLanguage English →
producer Margaret Fink →
productionCompany The Margaret Fink Company →
protagonistGender female →
publicationYearOfSourceWork 1901 →
releaseDateAustralia 1979-08-17 →
releaseYear 1979 →
runtimeMinutes 100 →
screenwriter Eleanor Witcombe →
settingCountry Australia →
settingLocation Inland New South Wales →
surface form: rural New South Wales
starring Aileen Britton →
Judy Davis →
Max Cullen →
Robert Grubb →
Sam Neill →
Wendy Hughes →
theme artistic ambition →
defiance of social expectations →
female independence →
timePeriodDepicted late 19th century →

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this entity surface form: My Brilliant Career (novel)
Gillian Armstrong → directorOf → My Brilliant Career →
Australian New Wave cinema → notableFilm → My Brilliant Career →
Gillian Armstrong → notableWork → My Brilliant Career →