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Academy Award winner Dion Beebe will receive the Fox Studios Australia International Award at the Australians in Film (Aif) annual awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Beebe joins the already announced honorees, producer Bruna Papandrea (Orry-Kelly International Award), Elizabeth Debicki. (Breakthrough Award) and Pandemonium Films' Bill Mechanic (Ausfilm International Award).

The awards celebrate the achievements of Australians working in Hollywood and also recognises the contribution of individuals to the Australian film industry.

Fox Studios Australia MD Wayne Borg said, "Dion Beebe is a gifted cinematographer who brings an amazing cinematic vision to every film he works on. His incredible award-winning work can be seen in such films as his early work in Australia on Praise and Holy Smoke to his work in Hollywood on Chicago, Collateral, Into the Woods and the upcoming Michael Bay film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi." Beebe.s first narrative feature credit Crush was selected...

Editor's Note: RogerEbert.com is proud to reprint Roger Ebert's 1978 entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica publication "The Great Ideas Today," part of "The Great Books of the Western World." Reprinted with permission from The Great Ideas Today ©1978 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

It's a measure of how completely the Internet has transformed communication that I need to explain, for the benefit of some younger readers, what encyclopedias were: bound editions summing up all available knowledge, delivered to one's home in handsome bound editions. The "Great Books" series zeroed in on books about history, poetry, natural science, math and other fields of study; the "Great Ideas" series was meant to tie all the ideas together, and that was the mission given to Roger when he undertook this piece about film.

Given the venue he was writing for, it's probably wisest to look at Roger's long, wide-ranging piece as a snapshot of the...

The filmmakers behind Love and Fury have the blessing of producer Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max) for the documentary about the clandestine love affair between her grandfather, the influential public servant Nugget Coombs, and poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights campaigner Judith Wright.

.Grandpa was a public figure and for a lot of people this is a very interesting story,. Coombs told If Magazine.

.We all knew about it [the affair] but my grandmother was a very observant Catholic and while there was talk of them divorcing at some point early on in the Nugget/Judith affair I think that it was decided that it was best for the whole of both the Wright and Coombs families for it to be this secret..

Coombs was one of the first people the filmmakers . director John Hughes (What I Have Written), who wrote the script with Penelope Chai, and producer Philippa Campey (Murundak: Songs of...