Australian Film Institute Award for Best Achievement in Production Design
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The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Achievement in Production Design is awarded yearly by the Australian Film Institute
for excellence in production design. It was first awarded in 1977 until 1982 when the category was renamed as Best Achievement in Art Direction and then renamed again to Best Production Design in 2005.
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
for excellence in production design. It was first awarded in 1977 until 1982 when the category was renamed as Best Achievement in Art Direction and then renamed again to Best Production Design in 2005.
1970s
- 1977: The Picture Show Man – David Copping
- 1978: NewsfrontNewsfrontNewsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, and Bryan Brown, directed by Phillip Noyce. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Phillip Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing...
– Lissa Coote - 1979: My Brilliant CareerMy Brilliant Career (film)My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the book of the same name by Miles Franklin....
– Luciana Arrighi
1980s
- 1980: Breaker MorantBreaker MorantHarry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker"...
– David Copping - 1981: GallipoliGallipoliThe Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...
– Herbert Pinter, Wendy Weir - 1982: Mad Max 2 – Graham Walker
- 1983: Careful, He Might Hear YouCareful, He Might Hear YouCareful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott....
– John Stoddart - 1984: StrikeboundStrikeboundStrikebound is a 1984 Australian film directed by Richard Lowenstein and based on the Wendy Lowenstein novel Dead Men Don't Dig Coal. The film got several AFI Award nominations and won in the Best Achievement in Production Design category....
– Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, McGregor Knox, Neil Angwin - 1985 Rebel – Brian Thomson
- 1986 Playing Beatie BowPlaying Beatie BowPlaying Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book written by Ruth Park and first published on the 31/1/1982.The story is set in Australia and is about a girl named Abigail who travels back in time to colonial Sydney-Town in the year 1873, where she meets Beatie Bow, a girl whose name has become...
– George Liddle - 1987 Ground ZeroGround Zero (1987 film)Ground Zero is an Australian drama-thriller about a cinematographer who, prompted by curiosity about some old film footage taken by his father, embarks on a quest to find out the truth about British nuclear tests at Maralinga...
– Brian Thomson - 1988 The Navigator – Sally Campbell
- 1989 Ghosts...Of The Civil Dead – Chris Kennedy
1990s
- 1990: FlirtingFlirting (film)Flirting is a 1991 Australian coming of age film about a romance between two teenagers, written and directed by John Duigan. It stars Noah Taylor, who appears again as Danny Embling, a character from Duigan's 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke. It also stars Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman....
– Roger FordRoger Ford (production designer)Roger Ford is a production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Babe.-Selected filmography:* Babe * Rabbit-Proof Fence... - 1991: SpotswoodSpotswood (film)Spotswood is an Australian comedy film directed by Mark Joffe, made in 1990-1991, released in 1992 in some locations. It is also known as The Efficiency Expert in America....
– Chris Kennedy - 1992: Strictly BallroomStrictly BallroomStrictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A Productions. The film is the first installment in The Red Curtain Trilogy, Luhrmann's trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; the follow-ups were Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...
– Catherine Martin - 1993: The PianoThe PianoThe Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
– Andrew McAlpine - 1994: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...
– Owen Patterson - 1995: Metal Skin – Steven Jones-Evans
- 1996: Children of the Revolution – Roger FordRoger Ford (production designer)Roger Ford is a production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Babe.-Selected filmography:* Babe * Rabbit-Proof Fence...
- 1997: The WellThe Well (1997 film)The Well is a 1997 Australian film, based on the novel by Elizabeth Jolley.-Synopsis:The film is about a young girl named Katherine and her older friend Hester who live on an isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave because there's too much work...
– Michael Phillips - 1998: Oscar and LucindaOscar and Lucinda (film)Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.-Plot:...
– Luciana Arrighi - 1999: Passion – Murray Picknett
2000s
- 2000: BootmenBootmenBootmen is a 2000 Australian comedy-drama film, directed by Dein Perry. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in Canada and USA and 20th Century Fox Distribution in Australia and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation...
– Murray Picknett - 2001: Moulin Rouge!Moulin Rouge!Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
– Catherine Martin - 2002: Dirty DeedsDirty Deeds (2002 film)Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington and John Goodman and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL...
– Chris Kennedy - 2003: Ned KellyNed Kelly (2003 film)Ned Kelly is an Australian drama film directed by Gregor Jordan. The film portrays the life of Ned Kelly — a legendary bushranger in northeast Victoria. Ned Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other men — Steve Hart and Joe Byrne — formed a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and...
– Steven Jones-Evans - 2004: SomersaultSomersault (film)Somersault is an Australian independent film, written and directed by Cate Shortland and released in September 2004. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
– Melinda Doring - 2005: The PropositionThe PropositionThe Proposition is a 2005 western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston and David Wenham. The film's production completed in 2004 and was followed by a wide 2005 release in...
– Chris Kennedy - 2006: MacbethMacbeth (2006 film)Macbeth is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme...
– David McKay - 2007: The Home Song StoriesThe Home Song StoriesThe Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker....
– Melinda Doring - 2008: Death Defying ActsDeath Defying ActsDeath Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romantic thriller. The film is a UK-Australian co-production directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in...
– Gemma Jackson - 2009: AustraliaAustralia (2008 film)Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...
– Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn