With a film career spanning over 40 years locally and internationally, award-winning Australian film and documentary director Gillian Armstrong shares her top five favourite films of all time.
Hailing from Melbourne and working on the international stage since the 1970s, Gillian Armstrong is recognised as one of Australia’s best directors. She made a strong feature film debut with My Brilliant Career (1979) for which she won an AFI award for Best Director. She is also known for directing High Tide (1987), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), Little Women (1994), Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Charlotte Gray (2011).
Armstrong is also highly commended for her series of documentaries exploring the lives of young teenage girls in Adelaide. Initially a one-off documentary commissioned by the South Australian Film Corp, Armstrong’s continued interest saw her return after the inaugural Smokes and Lollies (1976), to revisit the girls at ages 18, 26, 33 and 48, resulting in the documentaries Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better (1980), Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces (1988), Not Fourteen Again (1996), and Love, Lust & Lies (2009).
She was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1984 for her services to the film industry.
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