Australian Film Institute Awards 2009

2009 Australian Film Institute Awards
2009 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 28, 2009
2009 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Regent Theatre in Melbourne on Dec. 11 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 12 (top categories), 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Winner of the 2009 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Australia’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, Warwick Thornton’s feature-film debut, Samson & Delilah is a coming-of-age story set in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia, where two teenagers (best actor nominee Rowan McNamara and best actress nominee Marissa Gibson) must cope with a life of violence, poverty, and substance abuse. Eventually, the couple set out on their own, facing all sorts of [...]

by Anna Robinson | October 28, 2009   
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Australian Film Institute Awards 2008

2008 Australian Film Institute Awards
2008 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 29, 2008
2008 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Dec. 5 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 6 (top categories), 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Elissa Down’s feature-film debut, The Black Balloon, chronicles the difficulties encountered by a teenager (Rhys Wakefield) whose younger brother (Luke Ford) is autistic. With the help of his girlfriend (Gemma Ward), the teen struggles to come to terms with the issue.
 

FEATURE FILM NOMINEES
L’Oréal Paris AFI Award for Best Film
* The Black Balloon. Tristram Miall
The Jammed. Dee McLachlan, Andrea Buck & Sally Ayre-Smith
The Square. Louise Smith
Unfinished Sky. Cathy Overett & Anton Smit
AFI Award for Best Direction
* The Black Balloon. [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 7, 2008   
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Australian Film Institute Awards 2007

2007 Australian Film Institute Awards
2007 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: October 24, 2007
2007 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Dec. 5 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 6 (top categories), 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee in Romulus, My Father
 

FEATURE FILMS
AFI AWARD FOR BEST FILM
The Home Song Stories – Liz Watts & Michael McMahon
Lucky Miles – Jo Dyer & Lesly Dyer
Noise – Trevor Blainey
* Romulus, My Father – Robert Connolly & John Maynard
AFI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION
Clubland – Cherie Nowlan
* The Home Song Stories – Tony Ayres
Noise – Mathew Saville
Romulus, My Father – Richard Roxburgh
AFI AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR
Qi Yuwu – The Home Song Stories
Brendan Cowell – Noise
* Eric Bana – Romulus, My Father
Kodi Smit-McPhee – Romulus, My [...]

by Andre Soares | December 6, 2007   
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