The Australian Film Critics Association have just announced the results of their annual Film Awards at the University Hotel in Melbourne. The ceremony also included a presentation for the Writing Award winners. Snowtown has dominated the awards, taking out Best Australian Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Unsurprisingly, The Tree of Life and Senna took out their respective categories, while there was a slight shock in the Best Overseas Film (Foreign Language) category. You can read the full list of nominees and winners below, with the latter highlighted in BOLD. Congratulations to all of the winners!
AFCA FILM AWARDS
BEST AUSTRALIAN FILM
The Eye Of The Storm
Mrs Carey’s Concert
Oranges And Sunshine
Sleeping Beauty
Snowtown
BEST OVERSEAS FILM (ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Drive
The Guard
Melancholia
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life
BEST OVERSEAS FILM (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Certified Copy
In A Better World
Incendies
Pina
The Skin I Live In
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bill Cunningham New York
Mrs Carey’s Concert
Pina
Project Nim
Senna
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Henshall – Snowtown
Willem Dafoe – The Hunter
Matthew Newton – Face to Face
Geoffrey Rush – The Eye of the Storm
Hugo Weaving – Oranges and Sunshine
David Wenham – Oranges and Sunshine
BEST ACTRESS
Emily Browning – Sleeping Beauty
Judy Davis – The Eye of the Storm
Louise Harris – Snowtown
Charlotte Rampling – The Eye of the Storm
Emily Watson – Oranges and Sunshine
BEST DIRECTOR
Brendan Fletcher – Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
Daniel Nettheim – The Hunter
Fred Schepisi – The Eye of the Storm
BEST SCREENPLAY
Alison Addison – The Hunter
Shaun Grant – Snowtown
Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
Judy Morris – The Eye of the Storm
Michael Rymer – Face to Face
AFCA WRITING AWARDS
IVAN HUTCHINSON AWARD FOR WRITING ON AUSTRALIAN FILM
Rebecca Harkins-Cross – “Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? We Are”
AWARD FOR WRITING ON NON-AUSTRALIAN FILM
Jake Wilson – “Islands and Ghosts: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer”
AWARD FOR A REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL AUSTRALIAN FILM
Alice Tynan – Griff the Invisible
AWARD FOR A REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL NON-AUSTRALIAN FILM
Josh Nelson – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
