2021Winner
Best Performance
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Actor · Producer · Writer
Australia
Biography
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic and historian who has written several books in fields like horror film and women in film, including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011) and Masks in Horror Cinema (2019). She is co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (2019). Heller-Nicholas appears in Alexandre O. Philippe's 2024 documentary Chain Reactions, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, interviewed alongside Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama and Takashi Miike. Her 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror, 1895 - 2020 was made into a feature documentary in 2025 which Heller-Nicholas wrote and appeared in, directed by Donna Davies.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2025Nominee
Best Performance
Chain Reactions
2025Nominee
Best Performance
1000 Women in Horror
Career Highlights
2021Highlight
Best Performance
The Found Footage Phenomenon
2025Highlight
Best Performance
Lake Mungo Revisited
Video
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Chain Reactions
1000 Women in Horror