Cate Shortland Cate Shortland i(A85114 works by)
Gender: Female
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Scriptwriter and film director.

In 2018, it was announced that Cate Shortland would make her Hollywood debut with a work in the Marvel Comics Universe (MCU), Black Widow, featuring Scarlet Johansson. According to newspaper reports, other contenders for the job were Amma Asante (Belle), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), and Maggie Betts (Novitiate).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon The Kettering Incident ( dir. Rowan Woods et. al. )agent Australia : Sweet Potato Films Porchlight Films , 2015 8238559 2015 series - publisher film/TV fantasy horror

'When two girls mysteriously disappear in identical circumstances in the wilds of Tasmania 15 years apart, Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to both cases. To clear her name, Anna must delve into her troubled past and face some truths about herself and the otherworldly nature of this gothic land.'

Source: Screen Australia.
2015 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
2017 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
2016 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Telefeature or Mini Series
form y separately published work icon Deadline Gallipoli ( dir. Michael Rymer ) Australia : Full Clip Productions Matchbox Pictures , 2015 7480530 2015 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction war literature

'The story of journalists Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Philip Schuler, sent with the troops to Gallipoli in 1915, and how their quest for the truth helped change the war’s course – and its legend.' (Production summary)
2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
2016 shortlisted Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
2015 winner AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
2016 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting for episode 4: 'The Letter'
form y separately published work icon Devil's Playground ( dir. Rachel Ward et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures , 2014 Z1912252 2014 series - publisher film/TV '1988. Thirty-five years after Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground, Tom Allen, now a psychiatrist, becomes a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.' (Source: Screen Australia)
2014 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Telefeature or Mini Series
2014 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
2015 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
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