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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My Brilliant Career canonical 15
My Brilliant Career (1979 film) 1
My Brilliant Career (novel) 1

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Predicate Object
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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Gillian Armstrong → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Gillian Armstrong → directorOf → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
My Brilliant Career → basedOn → My Brilliant Career self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Brilliant Career (novel)
Australian New Wave cinema → notableFilm → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Miles Franklin → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Miles Franklin → knownFor → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
this entity surface form: pioneering Australian feminist novel "My Brilliant Career"
Miles Franklin → wrote → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
The Margaret Fink Company → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Judy Davis → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Sybylla Melvyn → appearsIn → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Sybylla Melvyn → appearsInFilmAdaptation → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Brilliant Career (1979 film)
Lisa Harrow → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Donald McAlpine → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Eleanor Witcombe → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
this entity surface form: My Brilliant Career (screenplay adaptation)
Wendy Hughes → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Max Cullen → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Margaret Fink → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Margaret Fink → produced → My Brilliant Career ⓘ
Bruce Smeaton → notableWork → My Brilliant Career ⓘ