Australian Film Institute Awards Articles

Written and directed by Warwick Thornton, and starring newcomers Rowan McNamara (above) and Marissa Gibson, Samson & Delilah was the big winner at the 2009 Australian Film Institute Awards held in Melbourne in two consecutive evenings, Fri. ("industry" categories) and Sat. (top awards). Thornton’s feature-film debut bagged a total of 8 awards, including best picture, best director, best original screenplay, best cinematography (also Thornton), and [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]