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 [...]