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The final year of the 20th century launched the international careers of more new faces. The nominees for Best Film were a strong and evenly matched group. CHOPPER was nominated in ten categories, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI in nine, BOOTMEN in eight and BETTER THAN SEX in eight. The other multiple nominees were ME, MYSELF, I (4), 15 AMORE (4) RUSSIAN DOLL (2), INNOCENCE (2), MY MOTHER FRANK (2) and THE MAGIC PUDDING (2).

Best Original Screenplay was awarded to Stavros Kazantzidis and Allanah Zitserman for RUSSIAN DOLL. Kazantzidis had won the Best Short Fiction Film Award in 1992 for ROAD TO ALICE and had a Best Film nomination for LOVE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES. This was Zitserman’s first AFI nomination.

BOOTMEN made an almost clean sweep of the technical awards winning in the categories of Costume Design, Production Design, Original Music Score, Sound and Cinematography. Murray Picknet’s award for Production Design followed the same award for PASSION in 1999. The award for Original Music Score went to Cezary Skubiszewski who had previous nominations for LILIAN’S STORY and TWO HANDS. David Lee’s award for Sound was his fourth from six nominations. Steve Mason received the award for Best Cinematography following nominations for STRICTLY BALLROOM and BROKEN HIGHWAY. BOOTMEN also marked the debut of actor Sam Worthington who was nominated as Best Actor.

CHOPPER won three major awards. Simon Lyndon, who was named Best Supporting Actor, had a previous nomination in this category for BLACKROCK. Eric Bana’s Best Actor award resulted from  his first nomination andthis launched his stellar international career. Writer/Director Andrew Dominik received his first nominations in both categories and was named Best Director.

The award for Best Adapted Screenplay went to Melina Marchetta who had adapted LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI from her own novel. As CHOPPER swept the male acting categories so LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI won the two female acting awards. The Best Supporting Actress Award went to Greta Scacchi and Best Actress to Pia Miranda. It was the first AFI nomination for both. This was Martin Connor’s first feature as editor. Since 1990 there has been a strong, though not infallible, connection between the winner of the editing award and the best film winner, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI was the winner in both categories with the Best Film Award being presented to Robyn Kershaw. She and ALIBRANDI’s other four award winners were all first time nominees as were two of the three award winners for CHOPPER. The year 2000 completed a remarkable decade of success involving many newcomers to the film industry.

In the non-feature category Adam Elliot’s BROTHER won the awards for Best Short Film and Best Short Animation. The screenplay award was his first from three nominations. The short animation award was his third from three nominations.

In the documentary category the awards for Best Documentary and Best Direction in a documentary went to THE DIPLOMAT which was directed by Tom Zubrycki. His fellow nominees were Terry Carlyon (A DEATH IN THE FAMILY), Amiel Courtin –Wilson (CHASING BUDDHA) and Wain Fimeri (POZIERES). Each of them would do outstanding work in the years ahead.

The television awards were dominated by GRASS ROOTS which won four awards. They were Best Episode, Best Direction (Peter Andrikidis), Best Screenplay (Geoffrey Atherden) and Best Actor (Geoff Morell). These awards were for work in the final episode (THE WHOLE YEAR). Lois Ramsay received an award as Best Actress in a Guest Role for another episode (LATE SEPTEMBER). Producer John Eastway’s award for Best Episode was from one of three nominations that he received for this series in 2000. The award for direction was Andrikidis’ second award from four nominations. Atherden had been nominated for two episodes this year. Like Eastway and Atherden, actor Geoff Morell was nominated for more than one episode. Lois Ramsay’s award came from her first nomination in a forty year career and was a popular victory.

The Byron Kennedy Award was shared by Popcorn Taxi and IF magazine who were cited as “fuelled by reckless enthusiasm and love of cinema”.

The Raymond Longford Award was presented to Editor, Documentary Maker and Producer Anthony Buckley for his significant achievements in Australian film making.

2000 Winners & Nominees

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ADDITIONAL AWARDS

  • Atlab Australia AFI Award for Best Foreign Film

  • Winner:

    American Beauty Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks

    Nominees:

    All About My Mother Agustin Almodovar
    Being John Malkovich Michael Stipe, Sandy Stern
    The Sixth Sense Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Barry Mendel

  • Byron Kennedy Award

  • Winner:

    Matt Wheeldon, Gary Doust
    Stephen Jenner, David Barda

  • Complete Post AFI Open Craft Award in a Television Drama

  • Winner:

    On The Beach (Set Design) (Seven Network) Roger Ford, Sally Shepherd

    Nominees:

    Beastmaster, Series 1 - Episode 8, 'The Last Unicorn' (Cinematography) (Seven Network) Mark Wareham
    Halifax f.p, Series 5 - 'A Person Of Interest' (Cinematography) (Nine Network) Brent Crockett ACS
    On The Beach (Cinematography) (Seven Network) Martin McGrath

  • Gusto Music AFI Open Craft Award

  • Winner:

    Hurt (Original Concept) Phillip Crawford

    Nominees:

    Intransit (Special Effects) Mike Daly
    The Other Days Of Ruby Rae (Acting) Magda Hughes
    Uncle Chatzkel (Original Score) Guy Gross

  • Raymond Longford Award

  • Winner:

    Anthony Buckley AO (Producer)

  • SLATS AFI Young Actor Award

  • Winner:

    Mallboy Kane McNay

    Nominees:

    Eugenie Sandler P.I - Episode 2 (ABC) Xaris Miller

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NON-FEATURE FILM (DOCUMENTARY + SHORT FILM)

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