Australian Film Critics Association AFCA Awards - nominees

The Australian Film Critics Association has announced the nominees for their 5th Annual AFCA Film Awards.

Leading with six nominations was The Eye of the Storm by Fred Schepisi. Its nominations were for Best Australian Film, Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Actress (Judy Davis and Charlotte Rampling), Director and Screenplay. Shaun Grant's Snowtown was next with five nominations, also for Australian Film, Actor (Daniel Henshall), Actress (Louise Harris), Director and Screenplay.

Rounding out the Australian Film category were Oranges And Sunshine, Sleeping Beauty and the documentary Mrs Carey’s Concert. Oranges And Sunshine and Sleeping Beauty each had four nominations.

The nominees for Best Overseas Film in English were Drive, The Guard, Melancholia, Take Shelter and The Tree Of Life. For Overseas Film – Foreign Language, the nominees were Oscar-winner Hævnen (In A Better World), Canada's Incendies, Certified Copy, Pina and La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In).

They also announced the winners for the AFCA Awards for Excellence in Film Writing. The winning critics were Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Jake Wilson, Alice Tynan and Josh Nelson. Winners were chosen by a jury consisting of Alan Finney (Chair of AFI), Professor Deb Verhoeven (Chair & Professor of Media & Communication at Deakin University) and Richard Sowada (Head of Film Programs, ACMI).

The ceremony for the AFCA Film Awards will take place on Saturday 25 February at the University Hotel in Melbourne.

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Complete list of nominees for the Australian Film Critics Association 2011 Awards

BEST AUSTRALIAN FILM
The Eye Of The Storm
Mrs Carey’s Concert
Oranges And Sunshine
Sleeping Beauty
Snowtown

BEST OVERSEAS FILM (ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Drive
The Guard
Melancholia
Take Shelter
The Tree Of Life

BEST OVERSEAS FILM (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Certified Copy
In A Better World
Incendies
Pina
The Skin I Live In

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bill Cunningham New York
Mrs Carey’s Concert
Pina
Project Nim
Senna

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Henshall – Snowtown
Willem Dafoe – The Hunter
Matthew Newton – Face to Face
Geoffrey Rush – The Eye of the Storm
Hugo Weaving – Oranges and Sunshine
David Wenham – Oranges and Sunshine

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Browning – Sleeping Beauty
Judy Davis – The Eye of the Storm
Louise Harris – Snowtown
Charlotte Rampling – The Eye of the Storm
Emily Watson – Oranges and Sunshine

BEST DIRECTOR
Brendan Fletcher – Mad Bastards
Justin Kurzel – Snowtown
Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
Daniel Nettheim – The Hunter
Fred Schepisi – The Eye of the Storm

BEST SCREENPLAY
Alison Addison – The Hunter
Shaun Grant – Snowtown
Julia Leigh – Sleeping Beauty
Judy Morris – The Eye of the Storm
Michael Rymer – Face to Face

AFCA WRITING AWARDS


IVAN HUTCHINSON AWARD FOR WRITING ON AUSTRALIAN FILM
Rebecca Harkins-Cross – “Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? We Are”

AWARD FOR WRITING ON NON-AUSTRALIAN FILM
Jake Wilson – “Islands and Ghosts: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer”

AWARD FOR A REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL AUSTRALIAN FILM
Alice Tynan – Griff the Invisible

AWARD FOR A REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL NON-AUSTRALIAN FILM
Josh Nelson – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives