BEST FILM
Candy
Jindabyne
Kenny
Ten Canoes
I thought Kokoda would get in here and if it were to be beaten by anything I didn't think Candy, but at least it wasn't the other Australian drug movie this year Em4Jay. That was shit. Way to go to these films - three of y'all are definitely worthy
BEST DIRECTION
Ray Lawrence, Jindabyne
Clayton Jacobson, Kenny
Paul Goldman, Suburban Mayhem
Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr, Ten Canoes
I didn't have Goldman, instead I thought voters may go all mastabatory wankfest on us and choose Ana Kokkinos (thank god they didn't!), but the other three I picked.
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Heath Ledger, Candy
Gabriel Byrne, Jindabyne
Shane Jacobson, Kenny
Steve Le Marquand, Last Train to Freo
YAY!!! I thought the AFI voters would scrub Byrne off their list and replace him with Tom Long (for The Book of Revelation, which is thankfully absent from every major category except Screenplay) purely because he's internation. I'm so glad I was wrong. I have never been a fan of Byrne (in fact I've vehemently despised him in the past), but he was supurb in Jindabyne. Oh, and yay for Heath Ledger, Jacobson and Le Marquand who I correctly predicted. I would have prefered someone like Peter Mammone (The Caterpillar Wish) instead of Le Marquand, but I can deal with him.
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Teresa Palmer, 2:37
Abbie Cornish, Candy
Laura Linney, Jindabyne
Emily Barclay, Suburban Mayhem
Whoa, I didn't see them nominating Teresa Palmer!! Good move, voters. She sure was impressive all things about the film considered. I had Victoria Hill from Macbeth in her spot. And the other three I all correctly predicted.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Geoffrey Rush, Candy
Ronald Jacobson, Kenny
Tom Budge, Last Train to Freo
Anthony Hayes, Suburban Mayhem
Well, I correctly guessed Rush and Budge (they were obvious), but the others I didn't. I hadn't seen Mayhem so I didn't know anyone else but Barclay and Ronald Jacobson? Well, I wasn't a big fan of his part (quite small, too)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Noni Hazlehurst, Candy
Susie Porter, The Caterpillar Wish
Deborra-Lee Furness, Jindabyne
Genevieve Lemon, Suburban Mayhem
I only got Porter and Furness (YESSSS!!!!!) correct. I have Porter's Wish co-star (and Aussie legend of sorts) Wendy Hughes and Deborah Mailman in The Book of Revelation (cause she made the last act better than it would have been). I'm glad Hazlehurst is back here after winning this category (deservedly so) last year for Little Fish - KEEP ACTING NONI! And Lemon? Well, I haven't seen the film in questions, so...
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mulari K Thalluri, 2:37
Shane Jacobson & Clayton Jacobson, Kenny
Alice Bell, Suburban Mayhem
Rolf de Heer, Ten Canoes
4/4. Go me. The directors didn't fancy Thalluri (I suppose we'll never know if the controversy about the lines between fact/fiction played a part in that) but they gave him a screenplay nod for his trouble. The rest? Pretty standard, but good anyway.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ana Kokkinos & Andrew Bovell, The Book of Revelation
Luke Davis & Neil Armfield, Candy
Beatrix Christian, Jindabyne
Reg Cribb, Last Train to Freo
4/4 again. Go me. But considering there were only 16 films in contention, the screenplay categories are always much easier to predict cause there's on average 8 films to choose from.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
David Williamson, Jindabyne
Will Gibson, Macbeth
Robert Humphreys, Suburban Mayhem
Ian Jones, Ten Canoes
3/4 here. I got Jindabyne, Ten Canoes and Macbeth right (they do all deserve to be there) but had Candy instead of Suburban Mayhem, which despite not having seen the film, I did not expect to be so prominent in the technical categories.
BEST EDITING
Dany Cooper, Candy
Clayton Jacobson & Sean Lander, Kenny
Stephen Evans, Suburban Mayhem
Tania Nehme, Ten Canoes
Only got one out of the four here. Ouch. I had 2:37, Jindabyne and Macbeth over the first three. I did get Ten Canoes though. Shame Jindabyne isn't there, I thought the editing there really helped it. I don't understand the nod for Kenny. There wasn't anything special about that.
BEST SOUND
Jindabyne
Macbeth
Suburban Mayhem
Ten Canoes
LOL, only one from four again. And again, it was only Ten Canoes I got right. I had 2:37 (which really should've been nominated), The Book of Revelation and Kokoda. Oh well, can't complain really other than 2:37, it deserves to be there.
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
Cezary Skubiszewski, The Book of Revelation
Paul Kelly & Dan Luscombe, Jindabyne
John Clifford White, Macbeth
Mick Harvey, Suburban Mayhem
Colour me confused. I didn't even think Macbeth had a score. Lol. Oh well. I don't understand the nod for Skubiszewski either.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Robert Cousins, Candy
David McKay, Macbeth
Nell Hanson, Suburban Mayhem
Beverley Freeman, Ten Canoes
Well, I got 3 here. Ten Canoes, Candy and Macbeth. Thank god Macbeth got in there. That was stunning stuff.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Borghesi, The Book of Revelation
Phill Eagles, Kokoda
Jane Johnston, Macbeth
Melinda Doring, Suburban Mayhem
3/4 here, I had Candy instead of Suburban Mayhem. Strangely, This was Kokoda's only nomination (well, it got another one outside of the feature section). I was sure it'd get a sound nomination or something because it was pretty good technically (I didn't think the film itself was that great).
That's it folks. Apart from a few categories there where it really is just pick-and-mix (and I happened to pick and mix the wrong ones) I did pretty good, averaging 3/4 for each category. It's sorta disappointing that The Caterpillar Wish and Opal Dream, two movies that really surprised me, didn't do better. But at the same time, I'm happy that movies like Footy Legends and Solo, which I hated, got nothing and The Book of Revelation and Em 4 Jay and Kokoda, which I was blah about, only got a few nominations between them.
Outside of the Feature Film categories, there are more awards though, so here's a few of them.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (this category can include feature films, documentaries and television)
Hunt Angels
Kokoda
Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst
Wicked Science
YOUNG ACTOR AWARD (film and tv)
Frank Sweet, 2:37
Marni Kennedy, Mortified
Christian Byers, Opal Dream
Mia Wasikowska, Suburban Mayhem
BEST TELEFEATURE OR MINISERIES
Answered by Fire
RAN
The Silence
The Surgeon
LOL, The Surgeon was a television show that got axed after, like, 7 episodes. So that makes it a miniseries. Heheh.
BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
David Wenham, Answered by Fire
Dan Wyllie, Love My Way
Charles Passi, RAN
Richard Roxburgh, The Silence
BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION DRAMA
Claudia Karvan, Love My Way
Asher Keddie, Love My Way
Susie Porter, RAN
Justine Clarke, The Surgeon
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Hung Angels
Raul the Terrible
Vietnam Nurses
Welcome 2 My Deaf World
BEST DIRECTION IN A DOCUMENTARY
Alec Morgan, Hunt Angels
David Bradbury, Raul the Terrible
Gillian Armstrong, Unfolding Florence
Polly Watkins, Vietnam Nurses
(i love how they slotted Gillian Armstrong in there)
BEST SHORT ANIMATION
The Astronomer
Carnivor Reflux
Gargoyle
The Safe House
BEST SHORT FICTION
The 9:13
The Desert
Small Boxes
Stranded
BEST SCREENPLAY IN A SHORT FILM
Louise Fox, A Natural Talent
Matt Rubinstein & Ian Kennedy Williams, Paper and Sand
Lee Whitmore, The Safe House
Kathleen O'Brien, Stranded
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A SHORT FILM SCREEN CRAFT
Adam Arkapaw (Cinematography), End of Town
JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick & Greg Sweeney (Production Design), Gargoyle
Skye Wansey (Acting), A Natural Talent
Emma Lung (Acting), Stranded
GO EMMA!!!
THE END
6 comments:
cool...i appreciate reading your blog to get a window of what's happening in australian cinema...i haven't heard of many of these films but i remember there names so if I hear about them later...i will have a little connection.
:-)
That's my plan!
Why did Suburban Mayhem get direction and writing nods but not feature? Doesn't make a lick of sense!
Because people like me can vote for Best Film but not Best Direction and Screenplay. Sorta like at the Oscars, how the Directors branch nominate for Best Director, the Writer's brance nominate for the writing categories, but EVERYONE nominates for Best Picture.
huh, I didn't know that about voting privledges of EVERYONE.
hum? that's very interesting.
do you also get to vote on the eventual winner?
Yeah. I get to vote for the Best Film, Documentary, Short and Animation categories and if I remember correctly the acting ones too? But I don't remember that.
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