AACTA Award for Best Production Design explained
The AACTA Award for Best Production Design is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television."[1] The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films.[2] From 1976 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).[3] When the AFI launched the academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Production Design.
Best Production Design was first presented as Best Art Direction in 1977.[4] The name changed to its current one in 1983.[5] The award is presented to the production designer of a film that is Australian-made, or with a significant amount of Australian content.
Year | Film | |
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1970s |
1977 | The Picture Show Man | David Copping |
Break of Day | Wendy Dickson |
Oz | Robbie Perkins |
Storm Boy | David Copping |
1978 | Newsfront | Lissa Coote |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Wendy Dickson |
The Getting of Wisdom | John Stoddart, Richard D. Kent |
The Mango Tree | Leslie Binns |
1979 | My Brilliant Career | Luciana Arrighi |
The Last Of The Knucklemen | Leslie Binns |
Mad Max | Jon Dowding |
Money Movers | David Copping |
1980s |
1980 | Breaker Morant | David Copping |
The Chain Reaction | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Harlequin | Bernard Hides |
Stir | Lee Whitmore |
1981 | Gallipoli | Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
Fatty Finn | Lissa Coote |
Grendel Grendel Grendel | Alex Stitt |
The Survivor | Bernard Hides |
Winter of Our Dreams | Lee Whitmore |
1982 | Mad Max 2 | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
The Return of Captain Invincible | David Copping |
Squizzy Taylor | Logan Brewer |
Starstruck | Brian Thomson |
1983 | Careful, He Might Hear You | John Stoddart |
Undercover | Herbert Pinter |
The Wild Duck | Darrell Lass |
The Year of Living Dangerously | Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
1984 | Strikebound | Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, MacGregor Knox |
Razorback | Bryce Walmsley |
Silver City | Igor Nay |
Street Hero | Brian Thomson |
1985 | Rebel | Brian Thomson |
Bliss | Owen Paterson, Wendy Dickson |
The Coca-Cola Kid | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Frog Dreaming | Jon Dowding |
1986 | Playing Beatie Bow | George Liddle |
Dead End Drive-In | Lawrence Eastwood |
For Love Alone | John Stoddart |
The Right-Hand Man | Neil Angwin |
1987 | Ground Zero | Brian Thomson |
Bullseye | George Liddle |
The Place at the Coast | Owen Paterson |
To Market To Market | Virginia Rouse |
1988 | | Sally Campbell |
Dangerous Game | Igor Nay |
Incident at Raven's Gate | Judith Russell |
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds | Sean Callinan |
1989 | Ghosts… of the Civil Dead | Chris Kennedy |
Dead Calm | Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Georgia | Jon Dowding |
Island | Neil Angwin |
1990s |
1990 | Flirting | Roger Ford |
The Big Steal | Paddy Reardon |
Blood Oath | Bernard Hides |
Weekend with Kate | Lawrence Eastwood |
1991 | Spotswood | Chris Kennedy |
Aya | Jennie Tate |
Deadly | Peta Lawson |
Isabelle Eberhardt | Bryce Perrin, Geoffroy Larcher |
1992 | Strictly Ballroom | Catherine Martin |
The Last Days of Chez Nous | Janet Patterson |
Love in Limbo | David McKay |
Romper Stomper | Steven Jones-Evans |
1993 | The Piano | Andrew McAlpine |
Broken Highway | Lesley Crawford |
Resistance | MacGregor Knox |
Say a Little Prayer | Chris Kennedy |
1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Owen Paterson |
Gino | Chris Kennedy |
Muriel's Wedding | Paddy Reardon |
Traps | Michael Philips |
1995 | Metal Skin | Steven Jones-Evans |
All Men Are Liars | Murray Pope |
Mushrooms | George Liddle |
That Eye, the Sky | Chris Kennedy |
1996 | Children of the Revolution | Roger Ford |
Love Serenade | Steven Jones-Evans |
Shine | Vicki Niehus |
To Have & to Hold | Chris Kennedy |
1997 | The Well | Michael Philips |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline | Roger Ford |
Idiot Box | Kerith Holmes |
Thank God He Met Lizzie | Clarissa Patterson |
1998 | Oscar and Lucinda | Luciana Arrighi |
Dead Letter Office | Chris Kennedy |
The Interview | Richard Bell |
Radiance | Sarah Stollman |
1999 | Passion | Murray Picknett |
In a Savage Land | Nicholas McCallum |
Praise | Michael Philips |
Siam Sunset | Steven Jones-Evans |
2000s |
2000 | Bootmen | Murray Picknett |
Better Than Sex | Tara Kamath |
Chopper | Paddy Reardon |
Looking for Alibrandi | Stephen Curtis |
2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Catherine Martin |
The Bank | Luigi Pittorino |
Lantana | Kim Buddee |
La Spagnola | Dee Molineaux |
2002 | Dirty Deeds | Chris Kennedy |
Garage Days | Michael Philips |
Rabbit-Proof Fence | Roger Ford |
Swimming Upstream |
2003 | Ned Kelly | Steven Jones-Evans |
Gettin' Square | Nicholas McCallum |
Japanese Story | Paddy Reardon |
The Night We Called It a Day | Michael Philips |
2004 | Somersault | Melinda Doring |
Love's Brother | Paul Heath |
One Perfect Day | MacGregor Knox, Patrick Bennet, Joseph Keily |
Tom White | Dan Potra |
2005 | The Proposition | Chris Kennedy |
Little Fish | Luigi Pittorino |
Look Both Ways | Rita Zanchetta |
Three Dollars | Luigi Pittorino |
2006 | Macbeth | David McKay |
Candy | Robert Cousins |
Suburban Mayhem | Nell Hanson |
Ten Canoes | Beverley Freeman |
2007 | The Home Song Stories | Melinda Doring |
Clubland | Nell Hanson |
Noise | Paddy Reardon |
Romulus, My Father | Robert Cousins |
2008 | Death Defying Acts | Gemma Jackson |
The Children of Huang Shi | Steven Jones-Evans |
The Tender Hook | Pete Baxter |
Unfinished Sky | Laurie Faen |
2009 | Australia | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
Balibo | Robert Cousins |
Mao's Last Dancer | Herbert Pinter |
Mary and Max | Adam Elliot |
2010s |
2010 | Bright Star | Janet Patterson |
Animal Kingdom | Josephine Ford |
Beneath Hill 60 | Clayton Jauncey |
Tomorrow, When the War Began | Robert Webb, Michelle McGahey, Damien Drew, Beverley Dunn |
AACTA Awards |
2011 (1st) | The Eye of the Storm | Melinda Doring |
The Hunter | Steven Jones-Evans |
Red Dog | Ian Gracie |
Sleeping Beauty | Annie Beauchamp |
2012 (2nd) | The Sapphires | Melinda Doring |
Burning Man | Steven Jones-Evans |
Killer Elite | Michelle McGahey |
Lore | Silke Fischer |
2013 (3rd) | The Great Gatsby | Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
Adoration | Annie Beauchamp |
Goddess |
The Rocket | Pete Baxter |
2014 (4th) | Predestination | Matthew Putland |
The Babadook | Alex Holmes |
The Rover | Josephine Ford |
The Water Diviner | Chris Kennedy |
2015 (5th) | | Colin Gibson |
Cut Snake | Josephine Ford |
The Dressmaker | Roger Ford |
Partisan | Steven Jones-Evans, Sarah Cyngler |
2016 (6th) | Hacksaw Ridge | Barry Robison |
The Daughter | Steven Jones-Evans |
Girl Asleep | Jonathon Oxlade |
Goldstone | Matt Putland |
2017 (7th) | Lion | Chris Kennedy |
Berlin Syndrome | Melinda Doring |
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom | Ben Morieson |
Jasper Jones | Herbert Pinter |
2018 (8th) | Peter Rabbit | Roger Ford, Lisa Thompson |
Cargo | Jo Ford |
Upgrade | Felicity Abbott, Katie Sharrock |
Winchester | Vanessa Cerne, Matthew Putland |
2019 (9th) | The King | Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton |
Hotel Mumbai | Steven Jones-Evans |
Judy and Punch | Jo Ford |
The Nightingale | Alex Holmes |
2020s |
2020 (10th) | True History of the Kelly Gang | Karen Murphy, Rebecca Cohen |
Babyteeth | Sherree Philips |
I Am Woman | Michael Turner, Richie Dehne |
The Invisible Man | Alex Holmes, Katie Sharrock |
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Robert Perkins |
2021 (11th) | Mortal Kombat | Naaman Marshall |
2067 | Jacinta Leong |
Nitram | Alice Babidge |
Penguin Bloom | Annie Beauchamp |
| Roger Ford |
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Notes and References
- Web site: AACTA – The Academy . Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) . 3 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120624200524/http://aacta.org/the-academy.aspx . 24 June 2012 .
- Web site: AACTA – The Academy – The Awards. Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 3 June 2012.
- Web site: AACTA – The Academy – Background . Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) . 3 June 2012 .
- Web site: AFI-AACTA - Winners & Nominees - 1977. Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 24 August 2016.
- Web site: AFI-AACTA - Winners & Nominees - 1983. Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 24 August 2016.