2014 AACTA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 9:56PM The most critically divisive Australian film of 2013 has swept the pool at the 2013 AACTA Awards. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby carried momentum from the the luncheon awards function, where his F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation acquired all the technical categories on offer.
The highly-touted, ‘David-vs-Goliath’ showdown between Kim Morduant’s The Rocket and Luhrmann’s mega-budgeted, studio-backed pic proved far less potent than the match-up promised. Mordaunt’s Lao-language critical darling, whose 12 nominations placed it in a neck-&-neck tussle with Gatsby’s 14 nods leading into the contest, went home with just a single trophy for Original Screenplay.
Baz Luhrmann’s passion project captured six gongs at the gala event, snaring Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (for Leonardo Dicaprio), Supporting Actor (Joel Edgerton) and Supporting Actress (Elizabeth Debicki). At the daytime function, Luhrmann’s American Dream epic took home trophies for Cinematography (Simon Duggan), Editing (Matt Villa ASE, Jason Ballantine ASE and Jonathan Redmond), Sound (Wayne Pashley MPSE, Jenny Ward MPSE, Fabian Sanjurjo, Steve Maslow, Phil Heywood and Guntis Sics), Original Music (Craig Armstrong), Production Design (Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Ian Gracie and Beverley Dunn), Costume Design (Catherine Martin, Silvana Azzi Heras and Kerry Thompson) and Visual Effects (Chris Godfrey, Prue Fletcher, Tony Cole and Andy Brown).
Gatsby’s sweep did not envelope the Best Actress category, which went to Rose Byrne for the portmanteau project, The Burning.
Pre-ordained recipients included Jackie Weaver, who took home the AACTA Raymond Longford Award; the Australian Cinematographers Society left with the prestige Byron Kennedy Award honours.
The full list of winners (highlighted below) are:
FEATURE FILM
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM
DEAD EUROPE Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Liz Watts
THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher and Catherine Knapman.
MYSTERY ROAD David Jowsey
THE ROCKET Sylvia Wilczynski
SATELLITE BOY David Jowsey, Julie Ryan and Catriona McKenzie
THE TURNING Robert Connolly, Maggie Miles and The Turning Ensemble
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION
THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann
MYSTERY ROAD Ivan Sen
THE ROCKET Kim Mordaunt
THE TURNING The Turning Ensemble
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
100 BLOODY ACRES Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes
DRIFT Morgan O'Neill and Tim Duffy
MYSTERY ROAD Ivan Sen
THE ROCKET Kim Mordaunt
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ADORATION Christopher Hampton
DEAD EUROPE Louise Fox
THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
THE TURNING The Turning Ensemble
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio THE GREAT GATSBY
Sitthiphon Disamoe THE ROCKET
Ewen Leslie DEAD EUROPE
Hugo Weaving THE TURNING
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Rose Byrne THE TURNING
Carey Mulligan THE GREAT GATSBY
Tasma Walton MYSTERY ROAD
Naomi Watts ADORATION
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Marton Csokas DEAD EUROPE
Joel Edgerton THE GREAT GATSBY
Thep Phongam THE ROCKET
Angus Sampson 100 BLOODY ACRES
AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Debicki THE GREAT GATSBY
Isla Fisher THE GREAT GATSBY
Mirrah Foulkes THE TURNING
Alice Keohavong THE ROCKET
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