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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2014
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Year: 2012
winner (U.S. Drama Films) Best Film, Audience Award form y The Sessions ( dir. Ben Lewin ) United States of America (USA) : Such Much Films Rhino Films , 2012 Z1838650 2012 single work film/TVU.S. poet and journalist Mark O'Brien (1949-1999) contracted polio and subsequently lived in an iron lung for four decades. O'Brien's bid to lose his virginity provides the storyline for The Sessions.
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Year: 2011
winner (Grand Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking) form y Deeper Than Yesterday ( dir. Ariel Kleiman ) Australia : 2009 Z1691597 2009 single work film/TV thriller -
Year: 2010
winner (World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic) form y Animal Kingdom ( dir. David Michôd ) Australia : Porchlight Films , 2010 Z1686698 2010 single work film/TV crime (taught in 2 units)Inspired in part by Melbourne's 1988 Walsh Street murders, Animal Kingdom is a story about the battle between Melbourne's underworld and the police. The story tracks seventeen-year-old Joshua 'J' Cody, a troubled teenager perilously caught between his own criminal family and Detective Leckie, a compromised cop who thinks that he can save 'J'. 'J' comes to realise that in order to survive, he must determine how the game is played. This involves not only writing his own rule book but also choosing his place in the cunning and brutal animal kingdom in which his family lives.
Works About this Award
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Sundance Triple Treat Gets Even Closer to Us 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 December 2014; (p. 40) -
Sundance Directing Award for Australian 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 January 2014; (p. 9) -
Campion Captures Audience with Lake 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 January 2013; (p. 12) -
Award Win Has Director Thinking of Home 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 31 January 2012; (p. 3) -
Sundance Hit is Surrogate for Rebirth 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 January 2012; (p. 12) 'After the success of The Surrogate, Australian writer and director Ben Lewin wants to return home for his next project, writes Ed Gibbs .'