Previous Winners 2000 - 2009

The 2009 Kodak Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature

Samson & Delilah - Warwick Thornton & Kath Shelper

The TIME OUT Sydney IF Award for Best Actor

Rowan McNamara - Samson & Delilah

The IF Award for Best Actress

Marissa Gibson - Samson & Delilah 

The National Film & Sound Archive IF Award for Best Direction

2008 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

Producer: John L. Simpson

Director: Michael Joy

For: Men's Group

The Screen Australia IF Award for Best Director

Peter Duncan

For: Unfinished Sky

The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor

Grant Dodwell

For: Men's Group

The IF Award for Best Actress

Monic Hendrickx

For: Unfinished Sky

The Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography

Jules O'Loughlin

For: September

The Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Music

Amanda Brown

For: Son of a Lion

The Screen Australia IF Award for Best Script

Michael Joy & John L. Simpson

For: Men's Group

The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

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Producer: Zyra McAuliffe

Director: Erin White

The Autodesk IF Award for Best Short Animation

The Covenant of Mr Kasch

Producers/Directors: Joshua Beahan & Ruwan De Silva

The St Arnou IF Award for Best Short Documentary

Undressing Vanessa

Producer: Tina Lymberis

Director: Matthew Pond

The SBS IF Award for Best Documentary

The Burning Season

Producers: Cathy Henkel, Jeff Canin & Trish Lake

Director: Cathy Henkel

The 3 mobile IF Award for Best Music Video

Just A Boy by Angus & Julia Stone

Producers: Madeleine Milasas & Jodie Passmore

Directors: Angus & Julia Stone, Josh Groom & Andrew Yoole

The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design

Laurie Faen

For: Unfinished Sky

The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing

Suresh Ayyar

For: Unfinished Sky

The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

Sam Petty, Rob Mackenzie, Yulia Akerholt, Peter Grace & Michael McMenomy

For: The Square

The Post Op Group IF Award for Independent Spirit

Benjamin Gilmour & Carolyn Johnson

For: Son of a Lion

The Efilm Rising Talent IF Award

Leon Ford

The ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Kieran Darcy-Smith

For: Memorial Day

The V Australia Living Legend IF Award

Hugo Weaving

The IF Award for Box Office Achievement

The Black Balloon

The Inside Film magazine IF Award for Festival of the Year

Flickerfest International Film Festival

2007 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

Producers: Sally Ayre-Smith, Andrea Buck, Dee McLachlan

Director: Dee McLachlan

For: The Jammed

The Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director

Winner: Tony Ayres

For: The Home Song Stories

The Queensland Events Corporation IF Award for Best Actor

Winner: Joel Lok

For: The Home Song Stories

The In Style IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Joan Chen

For: The Home Song Stories

The Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Nigel Bluck

For: The Home Song Stories

The IF Award for Best Music

Winner: Grant Innes McLachlan

For: The Jammed

The Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Dee McLachlan

For: The Jammed

The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Nana

Producer: Kath Shelper

Director: Warwick Thornton

The LaB sydney IF Award for Best Short Animation

Winner: The Goat That Ate Time

Producer: Lucinda Schreiber

Director: Lucinda Schreiber

The SBS IF Award for Best Short Documentary

Winner: Nigger Lovers

Producers: Stephen Hagan, Daryl Sparkes

Director: Rhonda Hagan

The IF Award for Best Documentary

Winner: Unlikely Travellers

Producers: John Hart, Michael Noonan

Director: Michael Noonan

The 3 IF Award for Best Music Video

Winner: God Told Me To by Paul Kelly

Director: Natasha Pincus

The Production Book IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Melinda Doring

For: The Home Song Stories

The Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Geoff Hitchins

For: Noise

The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

Winner: Emma Bortignon (Sound Designer& Mixer), Doron Kipen (Sound Mixer), Phillipe Decrausaz (Sound Recordist)

For: Noise

The Independent Spirit IF Award

Winner: Julian Shaw

For: Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

The Atlab Rising Talent IF Award

Winner: Bonnie Elliott

The ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winner: Luke Preston

For: The Adventures of Abigail Storm

The Living Legend IF Award

Winner: George Miller

The Film Finance Corporation IF Award for Box Office Achievement

Winner: Happy Feet

Producers: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill MIller

The Inside Film Magazine IF Award for Festival of the Year

Adelaide Film Festival

2006 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

Producers: Clayton Jacobson, Rohan Timlock, Shane Jacobson

Director: Clayton Jacobson

For: Kenny

InStyle IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Emily Barclay

For: Suburban Mayhem

Queensland Events Corporation IFAward for Best Actor

Winner: Crusoe Kurddal

For: Ten Canoes

Animal Logic IF Award for Best Director

Winner: Rolf de Heer (director) PeterDjiggir (co-director)

For: Ten Canoes

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Ian Jones

For: Ten Canoes

Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Clayton Jacobson and ShaneJacobson

For: Kenny

TDC IF Award for Best Music

Winners: Mick Harvey and Norman Parkhill

For: Suburban Mayhem

AFTRS IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Stephen Evans

For: Suburban Mayhem

Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

Winners: Craig Carter and Pete Smith

For: Kenny

The LaB IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Robert Webb

For: The Caterpillar Wish

Film Finance Corporation IF Award for Box Office Achievement

Winner: Kenny

Producers: Clayton Jacobson, Rohan Timlock and Shane Jacobson

Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Stranded

Producer: Beth Frey and Lizette Atkins

Director: Stuart McDonald

Cutting Edge IF Award for Best Animation

Producers: Sam White and Huy Nguyen

Directors: Eddie White and James Calvert

For: Carnivore Reflux

Discovery Channel IF Award for Best Documentary

Producers: Melanie Hogan and Bob Randall

Director: Melanie Hogan

For: Kanyini

Animal Planet IF Award for Best Short Documentary

Producer: Tom Zubrycki

Director: Tony Radevski

For: The Prodigal Son

Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Peter Templeman

The SBS Living Legend IF Award

Winner: Jan Chapman

Glenfiddich Independent Spirit IF Award

Winner: Melanie Hogan and Bob Randall

For: Kanyini

The ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winners: Julius Avery

For: End of Town

IF Award for Festival of the Year

Winner: Sony Tropfest

2005 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

Producers: Chris Brown, Jackie O'Sullivan, Chiara Menage, Cat Villiers.

Director: John Hillcoat

For: The Proposition

InStyle IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Cate Blanchett

For: Little Fish

SBS IF Award for Best Actor

Winner: Hugo Weaving

For: Little Fish

Animal Logic IF Award for Best Direction

Winner: Sarah Watt

For: Look Both Ways

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Benoit Delhomme

For: The Proposition

Australian Film Commission IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Sarah Watt

For: Look Both Ways

Moneypenny IF Award for Best Music

Winners: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

For: The Proposition

Inside Film Magazine IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Denise Haratzis

For: Look Both Ways

Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound

Winners: Sam Petty, Peter Grace, Robert Sullivan and Yulia Akerholt

For: Little Fish

The LaB IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Chris Kennedy

For: The Proposition

Film Finance IF Award for Box Office Achievement

Winner: Little Fish

Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts and Richard Keddie

Gray + Perkins IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Green Bush

Producer: Kath Shelper,

Director: Warwick Thornton

Digital Pictures IF Award for Best Animation

Producers: Julia Lucas, Susie Campbell, Mark Shirrefs and Anthony Lucas,

Director: Anthoy Lucas

For: The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

Discovery Channel IF Award for Best Documentary

Producers: Deborah Szapiro, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe and Janet Merewether,

Director: Janet Merewether

For: Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life

Animal Planet IF Award for Best Short Documentary

Producer: Marco Ianniello,

Director: Sascha Ettinger-Epstein

For: Sentences

Lexus IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Kath Shelper

The Freixenet Living Legend IF Award

Winner: Jack Thompson

Glenfiddich Independent Spirit Award

Winner: Wayne Coles-Janess

For: In The Shadow Of The Palms Iraq

The ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winners: Ben C. Lucas and Anthony Vercoe

For: All Flesh Must Be Eaten: The Movie

IF Award for Festival of the Year

Winner: Sydney Film Festival

2004 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature

Winner: Cate Shortland, Anthony Anderson

For: Somersault

Yalumba IF Award for Best Actor

Winner: Colin Friels

For: Tom White

InStyle IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Abbie Cornish

For: Somersault

BMG IF Award for Best Music (Soundtrack)

Winner: Decoder Ring

For: Somersault

Mushroom Pictures IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Cate Shortland

For: Somersault

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Robert Humphreys ACS

For: Somersault

Rising Sun Pictures IF Award for Best Animation

Winner: Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs

For: Harvie Krumpet

Discovery Channel IF Award for Best Documentary

Winner: Cathy Henkel, Jeff Canin

For: The Man Who Stole My Mothers Face

Gray + Perkins Lawyers IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Andrew Kotatko, Colin Englert

For: Everything Goes

Frameworks IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Tania Nehme

For: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Tracks IF Award for Best Sound

Winners: Paul Pirola, Glen Newnham, Josh Abrahams & John McKerrow

For: One Perfect Day

Animal Logic IF Award for Best Direction

Winner: Cate Shortland

For: Somersault

The LaB IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Paul Heath

For: Love's Brother

Glenfiddich Independent Spirit IFAward

Winner: Faramarz K Rahber & Axel Grigor

For: Fahimeh's Story

Freixenet Living Legend IF Award

Winner: John Clarke

Lexus IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Garth Davis

ZTudio 'What IF' Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winner: Brian Carbee

For: Accidents Happen

FFC IF Award for Box Office Office Achievement

Winner: Strange Bedfellows

The Inside Film Magazine Festival ofthe Year Award

Winner: Melbourne International Film Festival

Animal Planet IF Award for Best Short Documentary

Winner: Nicole McCuaig, Tracey Robertson & Nathan Mayfield

For: Keeping The Faithful

2003 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature

Winner: Sue Maslin

For: Japanese Story

Autore South Sea Pearl IF Award forBest Actor

Winner: David Wenham

For: Getting' Square

InStyle IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Toni Collette

For: Japanese Story

BMG IF Award for Best Music (Soundtrack)

Winner: Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab and 3KShort from Machine Gun Fellatio

For: Gettin' Square

Mushroom Pictures IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Chris Nyst

For: Gettin' Square

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Ian Baker

For: Japanese Story

Rising Sun Pictures IF Award for Best Animation

Winner: Peter Cornwell

For: Ward 13

Discovery Channel IF Award for Best Documentary

Winner: Scott Millwood, Michael McMahon

For: Wildness

Gray + Perkins Lawyers IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Matthew Saville, Trevor Blainey

For: Roy Höllsdotter Live

Frameworks IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Ken Sallows ASE

For: Getting' Square

Tracks IF Award for Best Sound

Winners: John Schiefelbein, Antony Grayand Ian McLoughlin

For: Getting' Square

Animal Logic IF Award for Best Direction

Winner: Sue Brooks

For: Japanese Story

The LaB IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Steven Jones-Evans

For: Ned Kelly

Yalumba Independent Spirit IF Award

Winner: Khoa Do

For: The Finished People

Freixenet Living Legend IF Award

Winner: Jill Bilcock

Lexus IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Matthew Saville

ZTudio 'What IF' Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winner: Rie Natalenko

For: Heloise

FFC IF Award for Box Office Office Achievement

Winner: Crackerjack

The Inside Film Magazine Festival of the Year Award

Winner: Popcorn Taxi

The Odyssey Channel IF Award for BestShort Documentary

Winner: Sascha Ettinger, Renata Shuman

For: Painting With Light In a Dark World

2002 Inside Film Awards

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature

Winner: Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan

For: The Tracker

Yalumba IF Award for Best Actor

Winner: David Gulpilil

For: The Tracker

InStyle IF Award for Best Actress

Winner: Everlyn Sampi

For: Rabbit-Proof Fence

BMG IF Award for Best Music (Soundtrack)

Winners: Graham Tardif & Rolf deHeer

For: The Tracker

Mushroom Pictures IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Roger Monk

For: Walking on Water

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Allan Collins

For: Beneath Clouds

Rising Sun Pictures IF Award for Best Animation

Winner: Michael Cusack, Richard Chataway

For: (R)evolution

Discovery Networks IF Award for Best Documentary

Winner: Leah Purcell

For: Black Chicks Talking

Gray + Perkins Lawyers IF Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Nicholas Tomnay

For: The Host

Frameworks IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Veronika Jenet & John Scott

For: Rabbit-Proof Fence

Tracks IF Award for Best Sound

Winner: John Schiefelbein, Phil Judd, Julius Chan and Angus Robertson

For: The Hard Word

Animal Logic IF Award for Best Direction

Winner: Ivan Sen

For: Beneath Clouds

The LaB IF Award for Best Production Design

Winner: Roger Ford

For: Rabbit-Proof Fence

Triple J Independent Spirit IF Award

Winner: Gary Doust

For: Making Venus

Freixenet Living Legend IF Award

Winner: David Gulpilil

Lexus IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Anthony Hayes

For: New Skin

ZTudio 'What IF' Award

Winner: Lucien Savron

For: Still Holding

FFC IF Award for Box Office Office Achievement

Winner: Lantana

Lexus IF Award for Film Festival of the Year

Winner: St Kilda Film Festival

2001 Inside Film Awards

In Style IF Award for Best Actress

Winners: Barbara Hershey, KerryArmstrong, Leah Purcell, Rachael Blake, Daniela Farinacci

For: Lantana

Soundfirm IF Award for Best Sound Design

Winner: Andrew Plain

For: La Spagnola

Gray & Perkins IF Award for Best Script

Winner: Andrew Bovell

For: Lantana

Film Finance Commission IF Award for Box Office Achievement

Winner: Moulin Rouge

Digital Pictures IF Award for Best Animation

Winner: Bernard Derriman

For: Chopper (the animated version)

Atlab IF Award for Best Editing

Winner: Nick Myers

For: The Bank

ZTudio What IF? Award for Best Un-Produced Screenplay

Winner: Script Husein Alicajic

For: Divine Shadows

Kodak IF Award for Best Cinematography

Winner: Donald McAlpine

For: Moulin Rouge

Triple J Independent Spirit IF Award

Winner: Sophie McNeill

For: Awaiting Freedom

Virgin Blue IF Award for Best ShortFilm

Winner: Sarah Hatherley

For: Sammy Blue

Animal Logic Film IF Award for Best Director

Winner: Ray Lawrance

For: Lantana

Lexus IF Award for Rising Talent

Winner: Andrew Lancaster

Inside Film IF Award for Best Actor

Winner: Anthony La Paglia

For: Lantana

Discovery Networks IF Award for Best Documentary

Winner: Bob Connolly & RobinAnderson

For: Facing the Music

Film Australia Living Legend IF Award

Winner: Bob Connolly & RobinAnderson

ScreenSound IF Award for Best Music

Winner: Craig Armstrong (OriginalScore), and Steve Sharples, Chris Elliott, Marius DeVries

For: Moulin Rouge

The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film

Winner: Jan Chapman

For: Lantana

2000 Inside Film Awards

Short Film

Winner: Patrick Hughes

For: The Director

Best Documentary

Winner: Amiel Courtin-Wilson

For: Chasing Buddha

Animation

Winner: Anthony Lucas

For: Slim Pickings

Feature Film

Winner: Paul Cox and Mark Patterson

For: Innocence

Actor

Winner: Eric Bana

For: Chopper

Actress

Winner: Julia Blake

For: Innocence

Script

Melina Marchetta

For: Looking for Alibrandi

Cinematography

Winner: Geoffrey Hall and Kevin Hayward

For: Chopper

Best Music

Winner: David Thrussell

For: Angst

Sound Design

Winner: James Currie and Craig Carter

For: Innocence

Visual Design / Editing

Winner: Simon Whitington

For: Innocence

Best New Filmmaker

Winner: Andrew Dominik

For: Chopper

Best Filmmaker

Winner: Paul Cox

For: Innocence