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SAMSON AND DELILAH TAKES SIX KODAK IF AWARDS
19/11/2009 12:59:15 PM
SAMSON AND DELILAH TAKES SIX MAJOR AWARDS
AT THE 2009 KODAK INSIDE FILM AWARDS
- SAMSON & DELILAH takes home six awards including SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film
- BAZ LUHRMANN named the Kodak IF Award Living Legend recipient
- WARWICK THORNTON wins the National Film & Sound Archive IF Award for Best Director for SAMSON & DELILAH
- ROWAN MCNAMARA wins the Time Out Sydney IF Award for Best Actor for SAMSON & DELILAH
- MARISSA GIBSON wins the IF Award for Best Actress for SAMSON & DELILAH
They were plenty of stars at Luna Park in Sydney to celebrate the 11th annual Kodak Inside Film Awards last night. The action packed ceremony was hosted by comedian Eddie Perfect who wrote two songs for the show, with Sam Worthington, Jan Chapman, Kirk Pengilly, Peter O’Brien, Jacqueline McKenzie, Megan Gale, Adam Elliot, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Scott Hicks among the celebrity presenters.
Cannes Palme D’Or winner Samson & Delilah took out the SHOWTIME IF Best Film Award for Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper. First timers Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara overcame serious competition from industry heavyweights Hugo Weaving, Frances O’Connor, Anthony La Paglia and Sasha Horler to win the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively. Warwick Thornton also took out the honours with the NFSA Best Director IF Award.
The highlight of the night for many was the crowning of the awards newest Living Legend which went to Australian cinema pioneer and innovator Baz Luhrmann, supported by his wife Catherine Martin and the Australia team, who took to the stage to accept the 2009 Kodak Living Legend IF Award. Said Kodak IF Award General Manager Clare Sawyer, “This year IF have awarded the Kodak Living Legend IF Award to the inimitable Baz Luhrmann. His contribution to world cinema as a genre defying director is undeniable. With only four films to his name he has revolutionised cinema, time and time, again both here and internationally”.
In addition Australia took out the top gong for Best Box Office Success over the past year, having taken over $37,555,144 at the Box office. This is the second time a Bazmark production has scooped up this coveted award which sees the public voting with their feet; Moulin Rouge took the Best Box Office IF Award in 2001.
Feature film Balibo didn’t walk away empty handed winning the Zig Zag Lane Best Sound and AVID Best Editing categories on the night while Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate picked up the Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography.
Independent Spirit was heralded by Granaz Mousavi, Kate Croser and Julie Ryan with their remarkable feature film made in Iran My Tehran for Sale. The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent went to Producer and Director Dominic Allen of Scarab Studio Films whose short film Two Men was one of the hits of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
“It’s a great year for Australian films with an enormous amount of diversity of production. The Kodak Inside Film Awards is always first to see the new talents on the rise and acknowledge the pioneering innovators in our industry. Tonight’s Kodak Inside Film Awards put Australian talent front and centre and celebrated their achievements” said Clare Sawyer, General Manager.
The awards were rounded off with the announcement of The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, the story of an Irish penal convict who was hanged in Hobart in 1824 for murder and cannibalism, as the winner of the FACB IF Award for Best Documentary.
The breadth of Australian film talent was clearly evident in the Short Film categories from the Nick Cave narrated winner of the Autodesk IF Award for Best Animation The Cat Piano, the Deborah Mailman directed teen love story Ralph took home the Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film and the moving story of homelessness told solely through a camera phone in the winner of the Production Book IF Award for Best Short Documentary, Mankind is no Island by Jason Van Genderen.
Evidencing the relationship between film and music, Warwick Thornton won the Dinosaur Design IF Award for Best Music for Samson & Delilah while Dan Reisinger took home the Chaotic Pictures IF Award for Best Music Video for Short Stack’s Sway Sway Baby.
In what has been a fantastic year for Indigenous film, the 2009 Kodak IF Awards were delighted to award the TDC IF Award for Best Film Festival to Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival.
For the full list of winners see below:
The SHOWTIME IF Award for Best Feature Film
Samson & Delilah – Warwick Kath Shelper
The TIME OUT IF Award for Best Actor
Rowan McNamara – Samson & Delilah
The IF Award for Best Actress
Marissa Gibson – Samson & Delilah
The Jameson IF Award for Best Script
Samson & Delilah – Warwick Thornton
The Dinosaur Design IF Award for Best Music
Samson & Delilah – Warwick Thornton
The National Film & Sound Archive IF Award for Best Direction
Samson & Delilah – Warwick Thornton
The Zig Zag Lane IF Award for Best Sound
Balibo – Sam Petty, Emma Bortignon, Phil Heywood, Ann Aucote
The AVID IF Award for Best Editing
Balibo – Nick Meyers
The Dyson IF Award for Best Production Design
Mary & Max – Adam Elliot
The Sony IF Award for Best Cinematography
Beautiful Kate – Andrew Commis
The Resolution Design Independent Spirit IF Award
My Tehran For Sale – Director: Granaz Moussavi Producers, Julie Ryan, Kate Croser, Granaz Moussavi
The EFilm IF Award for Rising Talent
Dominic Allen
The Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film
Ralph – Director Deborah Mailman, Producers Jessie Mangum and Kylie Du Fresne
The Autodesk IF Award for Best Animation
The Cat Piano – Directors Eddie White & Ari Gibson, Producer Jessica Brentnall
The Production Book IF Award for Best Short Documentary
Mankind is No Island – Jason Van Genderen
The FACB IF Award for Best Documentary
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce – Michael James Rowland, Producer Nial Fulton
The Chaotic Pictures IF Award for Best Music Video
Sway Sway Baby – Short Stack – Dan Reisinger
The Cutting Edge IF Award for Box Office Achievement
Australia – Baz Luhrmann, G.Mac Brown and Catherine Knapman
The Kodak Living Legend IF Award
Baz Luhrmann
The TDC IF Award for Best Film Festival
Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival
The 2009 Kodak Inside Film Awards will be broadcast as follows:
SBS, 10pm Thursday 19th November
Showcase, 11:30pm Friday 20th November
Showcase, 5:40pm Saturday 21st November
SHOWTIME, 10:25pm Tuesday 24th November
SHOWTIME, 9:25am Wednesday 25th November
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