2009 Australian Film Institute Winners

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 two awards for newcomers McNamara and Gibson.
Winner of the 2009 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the best film award at the 2009 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, in addition to being Australia’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, Samson & Delilah is a coming-of-age drama [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2009   
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London 2009: Gemma Arterton, Warwick Thornton, Eddie Marsan

Martin Compston, Producer Adrian Sturges, Gemma Arterton, Director J Blakeson, and Eddie Marsan arrive for the premiere of The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a psychological thriller in which Compston and Marsan are apparent kidnappers and Arterton their apparent victim, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Director Warwick Thornton arrives for the premiere of the drama Samson & Delilah, the tale of two Aboriginal lovers in Central Australia that has been just nominated for the Australian Film Institute’s best film award, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Photo by Samir [...]

by Joan Lister | October 29, 2009   
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