Remembering Australia's first Academy Award -- at Kokoda

Four nominees are preparing for this year's Academy Awards, (mon, aust time) hoping to join a distinguished list of Australians to have won a golden statuette. It was 75 years ago that a newsreel filmed by a legendary war cameraman made history by winning Australia's first-ever Academy Award. For audiences, it was the first time they had seen the Kokoda battlefield of World War Two in what was then New Guinea, along with the now-famous Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels.

Australian war cameraman Damien Parer setting up his camera in a tree at Kokoda. Source: Australian War Memorial

Kokoda Front Line