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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 1977 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Soundtrack 1977 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Costume Design 1977 · Nominated
Picnic at Hanging Rock. Jump to. 4 wins & 13 nominations. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. 1979 Nominee Saturn Award. Best Writing. Cliff Green. 1979 Winner Saturn Award. Best Cinematography. Russell Boyd. Australian Film Institute. 1976 Nominee AFI Award. Best Film. Patricia Lovell. Hal McElroy. Jim McElroy.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Cliff Green adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver.
The series was adapted from Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel of the same name about a group of schoolgirls who, while on an outing to Hanging Rock, mysteriously disappear. The score won the Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Television Series.
Picnic at Hanging Rock. On a drowsy St. Valentine's Day in 1900, a party of girls from a strict boarding school in Australia goes on a day's outing to Hanging Rock, a geological outcropping not far from their school. Three of the girls and one of their teachers disappear into thin air.
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Directed by Peter Weir. With Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child. During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock. This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from ...
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Jun 20, 2014 · In the repressive atmosphere of Appleyard, young female flesh is to be hidden, contained, and concealed. Only at Hanging Rock, unleashing, as it does, a mysterious eruptive energy, do the hats and gloves come off, are even the stockings unrolled.
