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AACTA honours Paul Hogan

Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan will receive the Australian screen industry’s highest honour at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards tomorrow night.

Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee won Paul Hogan
an Oscar nomination

The AACTA Longford Lyell Award, named after Australian film pioneers Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, will honour the actor/writer/producer’s contributions to the Australian screen industry during the past 45 years.

The former rigger on Sydney Harbour Bridge got his break when he auditioned for TV talent contest New Faces, which led to a recurring role on Nine Network’s A Current Affair in the early 1970s.

He produced, co-wrote and starred in his own sketch comedy series The Paul Hogan Show on Nine from 1973 to 1984.

In 1986 he wrote and starred in the movie Crocodile Dundee, which earned him a fortune as well as an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay and multiple Bafta nominations. That spawned two sequels, Crocodile Dundee II and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

The presentation will include tributes from actors Shane Jacobson, Michael Caton and Ernie Dingo and Crocodile Dundee director Peter Faiman.

Next year Seven will air Hoges, a FremantleMedia Australia miniseries that stars Josh Lawson as Hogan, Ryan Corr as his manager and sidekick John Cornell and Justine Clarke as his first wife, Noelene.

Past recipients of the Longford Lyell Award and its predecessor the Raymond Longford Award include writer/producer Andrew Knight, actors Cate Blanchett, Jacki Weaver and Geoffrey Rush and directors Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Ken G Hall.

  

 

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