The Inside Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n film industry, a format created by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon. The awards are determined by a national audience poll, which differentiates it from the Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...

, which are judged by industry professionals.

The event is held in November each year, and is broadcast on SBS television

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

 and showtime movie channels. The IF Awards were first held in 1999, and until 2006 were also known as the Lexus Inside Film Awards, in recognition of its principal sponsor, Lexus

Lexus

is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...

. Sponsorship since then has included multiple broadcast and event partners, with the new Naming Rights Partner for 2011 being Jameson Irish Whiskey. The Jameson IF Awards will be held in November in 2011 in Sydney again.

The Winners of the 2010 Kodak IF Awards

""The AUTODESK IF Award for Best Short Animation""

• The Lost Thing
  The Lost Thing
  -Plot:Set in the near future, in dystopian Melbourne, Australia, The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who enjoys collecting bottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, that seems to be a combination of an...
  
   – Directors: Shaun Tan, Andrew Ruhemann, Producer: Sophie Byrne

The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

• Celestial Avenue – Directors: Colin & Cameron Cairnes, Producer: Scott Alexander

The FACB IF Award for Best Short Documentary

• From Dope to Dalai Lama – Director: Jason Raftopoulos, Producer: Jason Raftopoulos

SBS Best Documentary IF Award

• Strange Birds in Paradise – Director: Charlie Hill-Smith, Producer: Jamie Nicolai, John Cherry

The SAE INSTITUTE IF Award for Best Music Video

• "Big Jet Plane
  Big Jet Plane
  Big Jet Plane EP is a 2010 extended play by Australian sibling singer-songwriter duo Angus and Julia Stone. The EP includes four tracks, three of which can be found on other Angus & Julia Stone albums ....
  
  " - Angus & Julia Stone
  Angus & Julia Stone
  Angus & Julia Stone are an Australian brother-sister duo from Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Forming in 2005, their parents are both musical and played as a folk duo before Angus and Julia were born. At very young ages, their father introduced them to music and encouraged them to join...
  
   – Director: Kiku Ohe, Producer: Richard Halstead

The AFTRS IF Award for Best Direction

• Animal Kingdom
  Animal Kingdom (film)
  Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville...
  
  – David Michôd
  David Michôd
  David Michôd is an Australian filmmaker, director of the highly acclaimed Animal Kingdom in 2010.-Education and early career:Michôd was educated at Sydney Grammar School before moving to Melbourne to study arts at the University of Melbourne. After working for the Victorian Department of Education...
  
  

JAMESON IF Award for Best Script

• Tomorrow When the War Began – Stuart Beattie
  Stuart Beattie
  Stuart Beattie is an Australian screenwriter and film director. He attended Knox Grammar School, in Sydney, Australia, where his mother, Sandra, was a languages teacher, and later Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.-Filmography:...
  
  

Events NSW IF Award for Best Actor

• Animal Kingdom
  Animal Kingdom (film)
  Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville...
  
  – Ben Mendelsohn
  Ben Mendelsohn
  Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohn is an Australian actor.-Early life:Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Carole Ann and Frederick Mendelsohn. He attended Heidelberg Primary School and Banyule High School. His father is a prominent medical researcher who heads the Howard Florey...
  
  

The IF Award for Best Actress

• Tomorrow When the War Began – Caitlin Stasey
  Caitlin Stasey
  Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress from Melbourne, who is best known for her previous role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club...
  
  

The SHOWTIME MOVIE CHANNELS IF Award for Best Feature Film

• Tomorrow When the War Began

SA FILM IF Award for Best Sound

• Beneath Hill 60
  Beneath Hill 60
  Beneath Hill 60 is a 2010 Australian war film directed by Jeremy Sims and written by David Roach.Set during World War I, the film tells the story of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company’s effort to mine beneath a German bunker and detonate an explosive charge to aid the advance of British troops...
  
   – ROBERT SULLIVAN, LIAM EGAN, MARK CORNISH, TONY MURTAGH

Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music

• Tomorrow When The War Began – JOHNNY KLIMEK, REINHOLD HEIL

CineAlta by SONY IF Award for Best Cinematography

• The Waiting City
  The Waiting City
  -External links:*...
  
   – DENSON BAKER

DYSON IF Award for Best Production Design

• Bright Star
  Bright Star (film)
  Bright Star is a 2009 film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny...
  
   – JANET PATTERSON

AVID IF Award for Best Editing

• The Waiting City
  The Waiting City
  -External links:*...
  
   –VERONIKA JENET

National Film and Sound Archive Independent Spirit IF Award

• CAUGHT INSIDE
  Caught Inside
  Caught Inside was a four member punk band originally from Miami, Florida. They played a lot at Cheers, a punk rock club in Miami, Florida. They were an active band from Winter 1994 until Winter of 2000. Most notably, they were signed to Drive-Thru Records after Stephanie and Richard Reines heard...
  
   – Directed by Adam Blaiklock, Produced by Paul S Friedman

EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent

• Ariel Kleiman

The Media Super Out of the Box IF Award

• Ryan Corr
  Ryan Corr
  - Life and career :Corr was born in Melbourne. He started his acting career at the age of thirteen with the Film Opraholic. His first television performance was on The Sleepover Club with a supporting role as Matthew McDougal...
  
  

Docklands Studios Melbourne IF Award for Contribution to TV

• Penny Chapman
  Penny Chapman
  Penny Chapman is an Australian television producer. Her work includes Brides of Christ and RAN Remote Area Nurse. and the award winning My Place -References:...
  
  

2007 nominations

The IF Award for Best Feature Film

• The Home Song Stories
  The Home Song Stories
  The 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....
  
   – directed by Tony Ayres and produced by Michael McMahon & Liz Watts
• The Jammed
  The Jammed
  The Jammed is a 2007 thriller film written and directed by Dee McLachlan.The film is a story about human trafficking and the sex slave trade in Melbourne, and the search for three girls trapped by a trafficking syndicate...
  
   – directed by Dee McLachlan and produced by Sally Ayre–Smith, Andrea Buck & Dee McLachlan
• Lucky Miles
  Lucky Miles
  Lucky Miles is an Australian comedy/drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Australia illegally along the continent's coastline...
  
   – directed by Michael James Rowland and produced by Jo Dyer & Lesley Dyer

The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director

• Tony Ayres
  Tony Ayres
  Tony Ayres is a Chinese-born Australian screenwriter and director. He is most notable for his award-winning films Walking on Water and The Home Song Stories.-Early life:...
  
   – The Home Song Stories
• Matthew Saville
  Matthew Saville
  Matthew Saville is an Australian television and film director, who began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series...
  
   – Noise
• Kriv Stenders – Boxing Day

The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor

• Brendan Cowell
  Brendan Cowell
  Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director. Cowell was born in Sydney. He stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal; he was then cast in a commercial at age 8...
  
   – Noise
• Richard Green
  Richard Green
  Richard Green may refer to:*Richard Green , American actor*Richard J. Green , American chemist*Richard Green , English cricketer*Richard K...
  
   – Boxing Day
• Joel Lok
  Joel Lok
  Joel Lok is an Australian actor based in Melbourne, starring in the recent Australian film, "The Home Song Stories", as the young character, Tom. Joel is the youngest actor to receive an IF Award for his performance in this film. -External links:...
  
   – The Home Song Stories

The In Style IF Award for Best Actress

• Brenda Blethyn
  Brenda Blethyn
  Brenda Anne Blethyn, OBE is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
  
   – Clubland
• Joan Chen
  Joan Chen
  Joan Chong Chen is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor...
  
   – The Home Song Stories
• Veronica Sywak
  Veronica Sywak
  Veronica Sywak is both an Australian IF Award and AFI nominated actress. She was born on 11 August 1978 in Sydney, Australia.-Biography:Sywak's professional career began when she was cast in the 2002 Australian film, Blurred. In 2004, she travelled to the US to study Practical Aesthetics at the...
  
   –The Jammed

The Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

• The Home Song Stories – Nigel Bluck
• The Jammed – Peter Falk
• Lucky Miles – Geoff Burton, ASC.

The IF Award for Best Music

• The Home Song Stories – Antony Partos
• The Jammed – Grant Innes McLachlan
• Noise – Bryony Marks

The Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script

• The Jammed – Dee McLachlan
• The Home Song Stories – Tony Ayres
• Lucky Miles – Michael James Rowland & Helen Barnes

The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

• Crocodile Dreaming – Directed by Darlene Johnson & produced by Sue Milliken
• Nana – Directed by Warwick Thornton & produced by Kath Shelper
• Soul Mates – Directed by Naomi Rossdeutscher & produced by Rachel Clements and Paul Howard

The Lab Sydney IF Award for Best Short Animation

• The Goat That Ate Time – Directed & produced by Lucinda Schreiber
• Richard – Directed & produced by Mick Elliott
• Sweet & Sour – Directed by Eddie White & produced by Sam White and The People's Republic of Animation

The SBS IF Award for Best Short Documentary

• Flour, Sugar, Tea – Directed by Lee Willis & produced by Gina Twyble
• My Brother Vinnie – Directed by Steven McGregor & produced by Sarah Bond
• Nigger Lovers – Directed by Rhonda Hagan & produced by Daryl Sparkes & Stephen Hagan
  Stephen Hagan
  Stephen Hagan is an Australian author, activist and campaigner against racism. He is also a newspaper editor, documentary maker, university lecturer and former diplomat....
  
  

The IF Award for Best Documentary

• Bomb Harvest
  Bomb Harvest
  Bomb Harvest is a 2007 documentary film directed by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, and produced by Sylvia Wilczynski. It explores the consequences of war in Laos as it follows an Australian bomb disposal specialist, training locals in the skill of detonating bombs while trying to stop...
  
   – Directed by Kim Mordaunt & produced by Sylvia Wilczynski
• 4 – Directed by Tim Slade & produced by Joanna Buggy
• Unlikely Travellers – Directed by Michael Noonan & produced by John Hart

The 3 IF Award for Best Music Video

• God Told Me To – Directed by Natasha Pincus. Artist: Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  
• Heart's A Mess – Directed by Brendan Cook. Artist: Gotye
  Gotye
  Wouter "Wally" De Backer , also known professionally by his stage name Gotye , is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. He has released three studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums...
  
  
• I Thought About You – Directed by Kiku Ohe. Artist: The Beautiful Girls
  The Beautiful Girls
  The Beautiful Girls are an Australian band, predominantly playing roots music. They have released three EPs, Morning Sun, Goodtimes and Weight Of The World. Plus four full length albums, Learn Yourself, We're Already Gone, Ziggurats and Spooks. They played at Dusty Days on 15 March 2008 in Wagga...
  
  

The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design

• Clubland – Nell Hanson
• The Home Song Stories – Melinda Doring
• Lucky Miles – Pete Baxter

The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing

• The Jammed – Anne Carter & Dee McLachlan
• Lucky Miles – Henry Dangar, ASE
• Noise – Geoff Hitchins

The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

• Clubland – Liam Egan, Ian McLoughlin, Andrew Neil & Steven Jackson Vaughan
• The Home Song Stories – Craig Carter, John Wilkinson, James Harvey & Andrew Neil
• Noise – Emma Bortignon, Doron Kipen & Philippe Decrausaz

The Independent Spirit IF Award

• Cross Life – Claire McCarthy
• Searching 4 Sandeep – Poppy Stockell
• Darling! The Pieter–Dirk Uys Story – Julian Shaw

The Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent

• Philippa Campey
• Bonnie Elliott
• Ben Hackworth
• Erin White

ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

• The Adventures of Abigail Storm – Luke Preston
• The Farm – Peter Dai Evans
• Intersection – Robin de Crespigny

2008 nominees

(winners in each category are listed first, with nominees in alphabetical order following):

SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

• Men's Group
  Men's Group
  Men's Group is a 2008 Australian drama film. The film is directed by Michael Joy and produced by John L. Simpson.-Plot:The film follows the lives of six men over a period of months as they convene weekly in a self-help style group....
  
  - Michael Joy & John L. Simpson
  John L. Simpson
  John L. Simpson is an Australian film and theatre producer, writer and distributor. He is the CEO and founder of Titan View...
  
  
• The Black Balloon - Elissa Down & Tristram Miall
• Son of a Lion
  Son of a Lion
  Son of a Lion is a 2007 Australian-Pakistani drama film set in Darra Adam Khel, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The film tells the story of Niaz Afridi , a Pashtun boy who wants to go to school instead of carrying on the family business of manufacturing firearms...
  
   - Benjamin Gilmour & Carolyn Johnson

Screen Australia IF Award for Best Director

• PETER DUNCAN - Unfinished Sky
• Elissa Down - The Black Balloon
• Andrew Traucki & David Nerlich - Black Water

Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor

• GRANT DODWELL - Men's Group
• Rhys Wakefield - The Black Balloon
• William McInnes - Unfinished Sky

IF Award for Best Actress

• MONIC HENDRICKX - Unfinished Sky
• Gemma Ward
  Gemma Ward
  Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian fashion model turned actress.-Early life:Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, the second of four children of Gary Ward, a doctor, and Claire, a nurse. She has an older sister, Sophie , and younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry...
  
   - The Black Balloon
• Maeve Dermody - Black Water

Screen Australia IF Award for Best Script

• Men's Group
  Men's Group
  Men's Group is a 2008 Australian drama film. The film is directed by Michael Joy and produced by John L. Simpson.-Plot:The film follows the lives of six men over a period of months as they convene weekly in a self-help style group....
  
   - Michael Joy & John L. Simpson
  John L. Simpson
  John L. Simpson is an Australian film and theatre producer, writer and distributor. He is the CEO and founder of Titan View...
  
  
• The Black Balloon - Elissa Down & Jimmy The Exploder
• Unfinished Sky - Peter Duncan

Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography

• JULES O'LOUGHLIN ACS - September
• Denson Baker ACS - The Black Balloon
• Robert Humphreys ACS - Unfinished Sky

Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music

• AMANDA BROWN - Son of a Lion
• Michael Yezerski - The Black Balloon
• Haydn Walker - Men's Group

Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing

• SURESH AYYAR - Unfinished Sky
• Veronika Jenet ASE - The Black Balloon
• Rodrigo Balart - Black Water

The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design

• LAURIE FAEN - Unfinished Sky
• Nicholas McCallum - The Black Balloon
• Sam Hobbs - September

The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

• SAM PETTY, ROB MACKENZIE, YULIA AKERHOLT, PETER GRACE & MICHAEL MCMENOMY - The Square
• Paul Pirola & Ben Osmo - The Black Balloon
• Andrew Plain, Annie Breslin, Will Ward & John Scheifelbein - Unfinished Sky

IF Award for Box Office Achievement

• The Black Balloon

SBS IF Award for Best Documentary

• The Burning Season
  The Burning Season (2008 film)
  The Burning Season is a documentary about the burning of rainforests in Indonesia which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. The main characters featured in the film are: Dorjee Sun from Australia; Achmadi, a small-scale palm oil farmer from Jambi province in Indonesia; and Lone Drøscher...
  
  - Cathy Henkel (director/producer), Jeff Canin (producer) & Trish Lake (producer)
• The Oasis - Ian Darling (director/producer) & Sascha Ettinger Epstein (director)
• Playing In The Shadows - Sascha Ettinger Epstein (director/producer) & Marco Ianniello (director/producer)

St Arnou IF Award for Best Short Documentary

• UNDRESSING VANESSA - Matthew Pond (director) & Tina Lymberis (producer)
• Mad Morro - Kelrick Martin (director) & Tom Zubrycki (producer)
• Rare Chicken Rescue - Randall Wood (director) & Vickie Gest (producer)

Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

• fOUR - Erin White (director) & Zyra McAuliffe (producer)
• Spider - Nash Edgerton
  Nash Edgerton
  Nash Edgerton is an Australian film director and stuntman.-Life and career:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and is the brother of actor Joel Edgerton....
  
   (director) & Nicole O'Donohue (producer)
• You Better Watch Out - Steve Callen (director) & Jules Callen (producer)

Autodesk IF Award for Best Short Animation

• THE COVENANT OF MR KASCH - Joshua Beahan (director/producer) & Ruwan De Silva (director/producer)
• Dog With Electric Collar - Steve Baker (director) & Damon Escott (producer)
• Mutt - Glen Hunwick (director) & Beth Frey (producer)

3 mobile IF Award for Best Music Video

• JUST A BOY BY ANGUS & JULIA STONE - Angus & Julia Stone (directors), Josh Groom (director), Andrew Yoole (director), Madeleine Milasas (producer) & Jodie Passmore (producer)
• Emergency! Emergency! by The Hot Lies - Luke Eve (director) & Simon Ritch (producer)
• If You Keep Losing Sleep by Silverchair - Stephen Lance (director), Damon Escott (director) & Leanne Tonkes (producer)

ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

• MEMORIAL DAY - Kieran Darcy-Smith
• Get Black - Matthew C Vaughan
• Red Light Revolution - Sam Voutas

Efilm IF Award for Rising Talent

• LEON FORD
• Amy Gebhardt
• Cris Jones

Post Op Group IF Award for Independent Spirit

• BENJAMIN GILMOUR & CAROLYN JOHNSON - Son of a Lion
• Jason Byrne - Rats & Cats
• Christopher Weekes - Bitter & Twisted

V Australia IF Award for Living Legend

• Hugo Weaving
  Hugo Weaving
  Hugo Wallace Weaving is a Nigerian born, English-Australian film actor and voice artist. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "V" in V for Vendetta, and performances in numerous Australian character dramas.-Early...
  
  

Inside Film magazine IF Award for Festival of the Year

• Flickerfest International Film Festival
  Flickerfest
  Flickerfest is an Australian, Academy Award-accredited short film festival. Founded in 1992 at Balmain High School which is now called Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus, it is held every January in Sydney. The films then go on tour throughout Australia. The Festival Director is currently...