National Film and Sound Archive celebrates 20 years since the release of Shine, a watershed moment for Australian cinema

By Jane Freebury
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:27pm, first published July 28 2016 - 5:42pm

When Geoffrey Rush was up for a best actor award at the Academy Awards in 1997 for his performance as a troubled concert pianist in Shine, the fellow nominees were daunting company, as they usually are. There was Ralph Fiennes (a cartologist-adventurer in The English Patient), Billy Bob Thornton (a murderer with intellectual disability in Sling Blade), Tom Cruise (a slick sports agent in Jerry Maguire) and Woody Harrelson (pornography publisher in The People vs Larry Flynt). Movie acting establishment, every one of them.

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