Film
- 23 January – The Australian film Clubland is picked up by a US distributor at the Sundance Film Festival.
- 25 February – The Australian animated film Happy Feet, directed by George Miller, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
- 26 March – The documentary Bra Boys became Australia's highest-grossing non-IMAX documentary.
- 30 April – Filming begins in Sydney on Baz Luhrmann's epic World War II drama Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
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