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The editors behind Nitram, I Met A Girl, The Furnace and June Again will compete for this year’s Ellie Award for Best Editing in Feature Drama, while the television drama category will be a contest between those who cut Wakefield, The Tailings, Jack Irish, Eden and Bump.

The annual awards of the Australian Screen Editors (Ase) will be held in early February with the hope that travel restrictions between states will have eased.

“It’s been a tough two years and we think we all deserve to be together in person to celebrate these fine achievements in editing, and the results of everybody’s hard work during such difficult times,” Ase president Danielle Boesenberg tells If.

In addition to the feature film prize, I Met A Girl editor Melanie Annan will also be in contention for Best Editing in Documentary and Series for Three Songs for Benazir, shared with Christoph Wermke.

Rebel Wilson claimed that she's the "first-ever plus-size girl" to star in a rom-com, which caused a huge backlash on social media. Wilson appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and talked about her upcoming movie, Isn't It Romantic. The actress made the bold claim on the show, and social media was quick to point out that Queen Latifah and Mo'Nique have starred in rom-coms well before Wilson's next project hits theaters. However, Wilson started to get into the social media war, which only seems to have made matters worse.

Queen Latifah and Mo'Nique aren't the only plus-size girls to have starred in a rom-com. Rikki Lake starred in the 1989 romantic comedy Babycakes as a makeup artist trying to get the romantic attention of the man of her dreams. Additionally, Nikki Blonsky starred in the 2007 Hairspray remake. The point being, Rebel Wilson is certainly not the first plus-size woman to take on that role,...