Stars presenting the awards included Geoffrey Rush, George Miller, Toni Collette, and Jason Donovan.
After the Deluge, a miniseries about a father who is suffering from Alzheimer's and his three estranged sons who reluctantly come together to secure institutional care for him, gained the most television nominations with eight.
[3][4] Despite the record number of nominations, Gettin' Square only won a single award, for David Wenham as best actor.
In the television category, the miniseries After The Deluge and medical-legal drama MDA, won three awards apiece.
[1][5][6][7][8] There was some controversy at the ceremony, with almost half of the winners using their acceptance speeches to criticise the Australian government's proposal to cut cultural subsidies as part of a free trade agreement with the United States.