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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2007 Annie Awards: Nominations

John Lasseter and Joe Ranft’s Cars (above, top photo), set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away (above, lower photo), the story of an upscale rat who gets flushed down into the sewers of London, received the most nominations — nine in all — for the International Animated Film Society’s 2007 Annie Awards, announced Monday, Dec. 4.
Cars received a best animated feature nod, though Flushed Away was strangely absent from that category in spite of nominations for directors David Bowers and Sam Fell, and for screenwriter Will Davies.
George Miller’s Australia-U.S. co-production and box-office hit Happy Feet, about a genetically impaired penguin that tap dances, received two nods: best animated feature and writing in an [...]

by Andre Soares | December 6, 2006   
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