- As well as continuing as musical director for the Seven Network, Ivan Hutchinson also worked on arrangements and played on many successful recordings made by Fable Records, recording at the Bill Armstrong Studios in Melbourne. From the early pop ballads of Ted Mulry through to the VFL football anthems recorded by the Fable Singers released in 1972 (he was also one of the uncredited singers, the anthems played throughout stadiums to this day), his skill as an arranger and piano virtuoso was always in demand, yet he himself only recorded one album of his own -- "Honky Tonk Party Favourites", released in 1973.
- The 'Ivan Hutchinson Memorial Lecture' (later known as "Ivan Hutchinson's Melbourne") was a regular event at the Melbourne International Film Festival from 1996 - 2006. Guest lecturers included journalist Jim Murphy who hosted with Ivan the groundbreaking movie review program "Two On The Aisle" (1971-1974), on HSV Channel 7.
- His one appearance in a theatrical motion picture -- a walk-on in Hercules Returns (1993), directed by David Parker, -- happened by pure chance. Originally both David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz, then hosts of SBS Australia's film review program The Movie Show (1991) were to have appeared in their 'role' of film critics/startled first nighters. David Stratton decided to pass on appearing in the movie, so Hutchinson appears with Margaret Pomeranz in this brief scene.
- Ivan Hutchinson discovered Melbourne based singing group The Moir Sisters and produced their first album, "Lost Beyond Harmony" in 1974. The first single released from the album "Good Morning (How Are You)" was a hit nationally in Australia and made the charts in the UK later the same year.
- In 2009, the Australian Film Critics Association launched its inaugural awards for film writing -- the AFCA Ivan Hutchinson Award for Excellence in Film Writing, offering two prizes - one for the Best Essay or Article on Australian film, the other for the Best Example of Film Criticism.
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