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 2006

2006 Australian Film Institute Awards
2006 Australian Film Institute Awards nominations: Oct. 19, 2006
2006 Australian Film Institute Awards winners: Dec. 6 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 7 (top categories), 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
BEST FILM
Candy – Margaret Fink & Emile Sherman
Jindabyne – April Films & Catherine Jarman
Kenny – Clayton Jacobson & Rohan Timlock
* Ten Canoes – Julie Ryan & Rolf de Heer
BEST DIRECTIONJindabyne – Ray Lawrence
Kenny – Clayton Jacobson
Suburban Mayhem – Paul Goldman
* Ten Canoes – Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr
BEST ACTORHeath Ledger – Candy
Gabriel Byrne – Jindabyne
* Shane Jacobson – Kenny
Steve Le Marquand – Last Train to Freo
BEST ACTRESSTeresa Palmer – 2:37
Abbie Cornish – Candy
Laura Linney – Jindabyne
* Emily Barclay – Suburban Mayhem
BEST SUPPORTING ACTORGeoffrey [...]

by Andre Soares | December 7, 2006   
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