1996 Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian film and television award ceremony

1996 AFI Awards
Date15 November 1996
LocationMelbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Television/radio coverage
Networks
ABC-TV
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The 1996 Australian Film Institute Awards were awards held by the Australian Film Institute to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 1996. The awards ceremony was held at Melbourne Town Hall on Friday 15 November 1996 and broadcast on ABC-TV.[1]

Feature film

  • Shine — Jane Scott
    • Children of the Revolution — Tristram Miall
    • Love & Other Catastrophes — Stavros Efthymiou
    • Mr Reliable — Jim McElroy, Terry Hayes, Michael Hamlyn
  • Scott Hicks — Shine
    • Peter Duncan — Children of the Revolution
    • Clara Law — Floating Life
    • Paul Cox — Lust and Revenge
  • Geoffrey Rush — Shine
    • John Brumpton — Life
    • Aden Young — River Street
    • Noah Taylor — Shine
  • Toivo Lember, Roger Savage, Livia Ruzic, Gareth Vanderhope — Shine
    • Guntis Sics, Andrew Plain, Gethin Creagh — Children of the Revolution
    • Ian McLoughlin, Tim Jordan, John Penders, Phil Tipene — Dead Heart
    • Dean Gawen, Rex Watts, Paul Huntingford, Steven Vaughan — To Have and to Hold
  • Roger Ford — Children of the Revolution
    • Steven Jones-Evans — Love Serenade
    • Vicki Niehus — Shine
    • Chris Kennedy — To Have and to Hold
  • Terry Ryan — Children of the Revolution

Television

  • Frontline - Season 2, Episode 7: 'Keeping Up Appearances' (ABC) — Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy, Tom Gleisner
    • G.P. - Series 8, Episode 8: 'Ceremony Of Innocence' (ABC) — Peter Andrikidis
    • G.P. - Series 8, Episode 22: 'Sing Me A Lullaby' (ABC) — Peter Andrikidis
    • Police Rescue - Series 5, Episode 8: 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (ABC) — John Edwards, Sandra Levy
  • Blue Murder (ABC) — Rod Allan
    • Halifax f.p - Series 2: 'Cradle And All' (Nine Network) — Roger Simpson, Roger Le Mesurier
    • Naked - Episode 2: 'The Fisherman's Wake' (ABC) — Jan Chapman
    • State Coroner (Network Ten) — David Taft, John Kearney
Best Episode in a Television Drama Serial
  • Spellbinder I - Episode 11: 'The Centre Of Power' (Nine Network) — Noel Price
    • Mirror, Mirror (Network Ten) — Andrew Blaxland, Dave Gibson
    • The Genie from Down Under - Series 1, Episode 1: ' (ABC) — Patricia Edgar, Phil Jones
    • The Silver Brumby - Episode 11: 'Fire' (Network Ten) — Colin J. South, John Tatoulis
Best Television Documentary
  • The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable (SBS) — Tony Wright
    • Demons at Drivetime (SBS) — Kerry Brewster
    • First Day — Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn
    • The Young One (SBS) — Emma Calver, Margie Bryant
Best Achievement in Direction in a Television Drama
  • Michael Jenkins — Blue Murder (ABC)
    • Peter Andrikidis — G.P. - Series 8, Episode 22: 'Sing Me A Lullaby' (ABC)
    • Paul Moloney — Halifax f.p. - Series 2: 'Cradle And All' (Nine Network)
    • Tony Tilse — Police Rescue - Series 5, Episode 8: 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (ABC)
  • Richard Roxburgh — Blue Murder (ABC)
Best Screenplay in a TV Drama

References

  1. ^ "Australia's top films awarded". Victor Harbor Times. Vol. 92, no. 10. South Australia. 15 November 1996. p. 15. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

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