2002 Australian Film Institute Awards
2002 Australian Film Institute Awards | |
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Date | 7 December 2002 |
Site | Princess Theatre, Melbourne |
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Best Film | Rabbit-Proof Fence |
Best Direction | Ivan Sen Beneath Clouds |
Best Actor | David Gulpilil The Tracker |
Best Actress | Maria Theodorakis Walking on Water |
Supporting Actor | Nathaniel Dean Walking on Water |
Supporting Actress | Judi Farr Walking on Water |
Most awards | Feature film: Walking on Water (5) |
Most nominations | Feature film: Rabbit-Proof Fence (10) Television: The Secret Life of Us (5) |
Television coverage | |
Network | Network Ten |
The 44th Australian Film Institute Awards (generally known as the 2002 AFI Awards), were a series of awards presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI). The awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2002. The ceremony took place at The Princess Theatre, Melbourne and was televised by Network Ten.
Winners and nominees
[edit]The nominations were announced on 19 October 2002. Leading the feature film nominees was Rabbit-Proof Fence with a total of ten nominations.[1] All four of the Best Film nominees featured Indigenous subjects.[2] The Secret Life of Us, Network Ten's drama about a group of friends who live in a St Kilda, gained the most television nominations with five.[3]
Tony Ayres' directorial debut, Walking on Water, exploring the grief, tenderness, stupidity and humour that arises from death, received five awards, the most for any production. In the television category, the small-screen movie The Road From Coorain, an adaptation of Jill Ker Conway's memoir of the same name, won four awards.[4][5][6]
Controversies
[edit]The decision to allow the unreleased drama Swimming Upstream to receive five award nominations was met with great dismay by other entrants. The distributors of all four nominees for best film were quoted as being "angry" and "disappointed" that the nominations include a film without a cinema release by the cut-off date of 26 September 2002. Another film, Garage Days, also received three nominations despite being released a week after the deadline.[7]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Feature film
[edit]Television
[edit]Non-feature film
[edit]Best Documentary | Best Direction in a Documentary |
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Best Short Fiction Film | Best Short Animation |
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Best Screenplay in a Short Film | Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film |
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Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film | Best Sound in a Non-Feature Film |
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Additional Awards
[edit]Young Actor's Award | Best Foreign Film |
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Open Craft AFI Award – Television | Open Craft AFI Award – Non Feature Film |
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Individual Awards
[edit]Award | Winner |
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Byron Kennedy Award | Rachel Perkins |
Raymond Longford Award | Patricia Edgar |
Global Achievement Award | Mel Gibson |
AFI Screenwriting Prize | Ivan Sen |
Multiple nominations
[edit]The following films received multiple nominations.
- 10 nominations: Rabbit-Proof Fence
- 9 nominations: Walking on Water
- 6 nominations: Australian Rules, Beneath Clouds and The Tracker
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ George, Sandy (18 October 2002). "Rabbit-Proof Fence scoops 10 AFI nominations". Screen Daily. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Indigenous stories dominate AFI nominations". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 October 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "Winners & Nominees". www.aacta.org. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ George, Sandy (9 December 2002). "Rabbit-Proof Fence triumphs at last Down Under". Screen Daily. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "Gulpilil, 'Fence' take honours". The Age. 8 December 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "AFI Awards". The Age. 8 December 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "And the nominees are ... not yet released". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 October 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2024.