1990 Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian film and television award ceremony

1990 AFI Awards
Date10 October 1990
LocationWorld Congress Centre, Melbourne
Television/radio coverage
Networks
ABC-TV
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The 1990 Australian Film Institute Awards were awards held by the Australian Film Institute to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 1990.[1] Twenty films competed in the feature film categories.[2]

Feature film

  • Flirting – Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell, George Miller
    • Blood Oath – Charles Waterstreet, Denis Whitburn, Brian Williams
    • Struck by Lightning – Terry J. Charatsis, Trevor Farrant
    • The Big Steal – Nadia Tass, David Parker
  • Ray Argall – Return Home
    • Stephen Wallace – Blood Oath
    • Paul Cox – Golden Braid
    • Jerzy Domaradzki – Struck by Lightning
  • Max von Sydow – Father
    • Frankie J. Holden – Return Home
    • Ben Mendelsohn – The Big Steal
    • Russell Crowe – The Crossing
  • Steve Bisley – The Big Steal
    • John Polson – Blood Oath
    • Toshi Shioya – Blood Oath
    • Bartholomew Rose – Flirting
  • Jeff Darling – The Crossing
  • Ben Osmo, Gethin Creagh, Roger Savage – Blood Oath
    • Antony Gray, Ross Linton, Phil Judd – Flirting
    • Livia Ruzic, James Currie, David Rawlinson – Golden Braid
    • John Wilkinson, Dean Gawen, Roger Savage – The Big Steal
  • Roger Ford – Flirting
    • Bernard Hides – Blood Oath
    • Paddy Reardon – The Big Steal
    • Lawrence Eastwood – Weekend With Kate

Television

Best Mini-Series or Telefeature
Best Television Documentary
  • In Search of Dr Mabuse (ABC) – Varcha Sidwell
    • Astonish Me: Graeme Murphy (ABC) – Don Featherstone
    • Difficult Pleasure: Brett Whiteley (ABC) – Don Featherstone
    • Victims (Network Ten) – Iain Gillespie, Terry Carlyon
Best Achievement in Direction in a Mini-Series or Telefeature
  • Robert Marchand – Come in Spinner (ABC)
Best Screenplay in a Mini-Series or Television Drama

References

  1. ^ "Top film award goes to Flirting". The Canberra Times. Vol. 65, no. 20, 271. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1990. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "AFI nominations raise concerns". Filmnews. Vol. 20, no. 6. New South Wales, Australia. 1 July 1990. p. 3. Retrieved 4 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

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