Nominees Announced in FCCA Awards

The Film Critic's Circle of Australia, of which I am a proud member, have announced their nominees in the 2012 Critics Awards for Australian Film.

Awards will be presented on Tuesday 19th March, and the following nominees are in alphabetical order.

One notable exclusion from a number of categories is Hail, Amiel Courtin Wilson's raw, uncompromising and quite brilliant docu-drama of a prisoner's struggle to return to society and his spiral into merciless self-destruction and madness/ Lore, Wish You Were Here and The Sapphires, as expected, featured the most prominently.


BEST FILM

DEAD EUROPE (Producer: Liz Watts, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning)
LORE (Producer: Liz Watts, Karsten Stöter, Paul Welsh, Benny Drechsel)
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN (Producer: Jodi Matterson)
SAPPHIRES, THE (Producer: Rosemary Blight, Kylie Du Fresne)
WISH YOU WERE HERE (Producer: Angie Fielder)
 
BEST DIRECTOR

WAYNE BLAIR (Sapphires, The)
KIERAN DARCY-SMITH (Wish You Were Here)
CATE SHORTLAND (Lore)
PETER TEMPLETON (Not Suitable for Children)
 
BEST ACTRESS

DEBORAH MAILMAN (Sapphires, The)
FELICITY PRICE (Wish You Were Here)
SARAH SNOOK (Not Suitable for Children)
 
BEST ACTOR

JOEL EDGERTON (Wish You Were Here)
EWEN LESLIE (Dead Europe)
CHRIS O’DOWD (Sapphires, The)
 
BEST SCREENPLAY

KIERAN DARCY- SMITH & FELICITY PRICE (Wish You Were Here)
CATE SHORTLAND & ROBIN MUKHERJEE (Lore)
TONY BRIGGS & KEITH THOMPSON (Sapphires, The)
 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

ADAM ARKAPAW (Lore)
JULES O’LOUGHLIN (Wish You Were Here)
WARWICK THORNTON (Sapphires, The)
 
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE

MATTEO ZINGALES (Not Suitable For Children)
CEZARY SKUBISZEWSKI (Sapphires, The)
MAX RICHTER (Lore)
 
BEST EDITING

JASON BALLANTINE (Wish You Were Here)
DANY COOPER (Sapphires, The)
VERONIKA JENET (Lore) 
 
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

REBECCA GIBNEY (Mental)
JESSICA MAUBOY (Sapphires, The)
TERESA PALMER (Wish You Were Here)
 
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

ANTONY STARR (Wish You Were Here)
LIEV SCHREIBER (Mental)
RYAN CORR (Not suitable for Children)
 
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNG ACTOR

KODI SMIT-MCPHEE (Dead Europe)
HANNA MANGAN LAWRENCE (Thirst)
SASKIA ROSENDAHL (Lore)
LILY SULLIVAN (Mental)
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY

DESPITE THE GODS  (Director: Penny Vozniak, Producer: Karina Astrup)
DR SARMAST’S MUSIC SCHOOL (Director: Polly Watkins, Producer: Beth Frey)
LASSETER’S BONES (Director/Producer: Luke Walker)                                               
PAUL KELLY: STORIES OF ME (Director: Ian Darling, Producers: Susan MacKinnon, Mary Macrae, Ian Darling)