Australian Film Institute Awards – 2006 Nominations
I’ve added the list of nominees for the Australian Film Institute’s L’Oréal Paris 2006 AFI Awards. The awards, a sort of Australian Oscars-cum-Emmys, cover narrative feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television programs.
Below are the four nominees in the Best Film category:
Directed by (non-nominee) Neil Armfield, Candy received a total of 8 nods. The film stars nominees Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as a heroin-addicted couple whose lives rapidly go on a tailspin. Geoffrey Rush was also nominated as Best Supporting Actor. (He and Cornish won in their respective categories at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.) Candy also won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award (Armfield and Luke Davies) from the Australian Writers’ Guild. Earlier this year, it was shown in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
Set in a small New South Wales town, Ray Lawrence’s psychological drama Jindabyne revolves around a woman who begins to question her relationship with her husband after he, during a fishing trip with friends, discovers the body of a murdered girl but — busy with his fishing — fails to report it to the police until days later. Stars Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne received two of the film’s 9 nominations.
Clayton Jacobson’s box-office hit Kenny, a mockumentary about a dedicated deliverer of portable johns and all-around defecation expert, received 6 nods, including Best Actor (Clayton’s real-life brother Shane Jacobson) and Original Screenplay (for the two Jacobson brothers; their father, Ronald Jacobson, received a Best Supporting Actor nod).
Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr’s Ten Canoes, about conflicts between ancient tribes of Australian aborigines and Australia’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, received 7 nominations. Ten Canoes has already won the Best Film Award from the Film Critics Circle of Australia.
Strangely, the AFI’s most nominated film, Suburban Mayhem, failed to be included in the Best Film shortlist, though director Paul Goldman did manage a nomination. Suburban Mayhem, the story of a troubled 19-year-old girl who decides to kill her unresponsive father, received a total of 12 nods, including Best Actress (Emily Barclay).
The AFI winners will be announced in two stages: at a "craft" ceremony on Dec. 6, and at an awards dinner on Dec. 7.
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