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Nominations for Feature Films

Byron Kennedy Award

• John Polson

Best Film

• Kiss or Kill
• Blackrock
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• The Well

Best Achievement in Direction

• Bill Bennett - Kiss or Kill
• Chris Kennedy - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• David Caesar - Idiot Box
• Samantha Lang - The Well

Best Original Screenplay

• The Castle - Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline - Chris Kennedy
• Kiss or Kill - Bill Bennett
• Road to Nhill - Alison Tilson

Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source

• The Well - Laura Jones
• Blackrock - Nick Enright
• Love in Ambush - Carl Schultz

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Pamela Rabe - The Well
• Frances O'Connor - Kiss or Kill
• Frances O'Connor - Thank God He Met Lizzie
• Miranda Otto - The Well

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Richard Roxburgh - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• Michael Caton - The Castle
• Jeremy Sims - Idiot Box
• Matt Day - Kiss or Kill

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Cate Blanchett - Thank God He Met Lizzie
• Rebecca Smart - Blackrock
• Sophie Lee - The Castle
• Annie Byron - Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Andrew S. Gilbert - Kiss or Kill
• Simon Lyndon - Blackrock
• Charles 'Bud' Tingwell - The Castle
• Chris Haywood - Kiss or Kill

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Andrew Lesnie - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• Martin McGrath - Blackrock
• Malcolm McCulloch - Kiss or Kill
• Mandy Walker - The Well

Best Achievement in Editing

• Henry Dangar - Kiss or Kill
• Mark Perry - Idiot Box
• Suresh Ayyar - Thank God He Met Lizzie
• Dany Cooper - The Well

Best Original Music Score

• Peter Best - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• Tim Rogers & Nick Launay Idiot Box
• Elizabeth Drake - Road to Nhill
• Stephen Rae - The Well

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Michael Philips - The Well
• Roger Ford - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• Kerith Holmes - Idiot Box
• Clarissa Patterson - Thank God He Met Lizzie

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Louise Wakefield - Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• Ruth De la Lande - Kiss or Kill
• Edie Kurzer - Thank God He Met Lizzie
• Anna Borghesi - The Well

Best Achievement in Sound

• Kiss or Kill - Wayne Pashley, Toivo Lember, and Gethin Creagh
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline - John Dennison , Tony Vaccher , John Patterson , Craig Butters, Chris Alderton
• Idiot Box - Liam Egan, Phil Judd, Alicia Slusarski, and David White
• The Well - Anne Breslin, Gethin Creagh, and Bronwyn Murphy

Best Foreign Film

• Secrets & Lies - Simon Channing-Williams
• Breaking the Waves - Vibeke Windeløv, and Peter Aalbæk Jensen
• The English Patient - Saul Zaentz
• Romeo + Juliet - Gabriella Martinelli, and Baz Luhrmann

Nominations for Non-Feature Films

Best Documentary

• Mabo: Life of an Island Man - Trevor Graham

Best Television Documentary

• Dhuway - Lew Griffiths, and Noel Pearson

Best Short Fiction Film

• The Beneficiary - Graeme Burfoot

Best Short Animation Film

• Uncle - Adam Benjamin Elliot

Best Screenplay in a Short Film

• My Second Car (1996) - Stuart McDonald

Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film

• Rock the Boat - Ulrich Krafzik, Wade Ferley, and Ian Pugsley

Best Sound in a Non-Feature Film

• At Sea - Linda Murdoch, and Martin Oswin

Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film

• Year of the Dogs - Stewart Young

Prototype Casting Open Craft Award

• Frontier: Worse Than Slavery Itself - Bruce Belsham and Victoria Pitt
• for the research and the script.

Nominations for Television Drama

Best Direction In A Television Drama

• Brendan Maher - Good Guys Bad Guys, "1.8 Million Reasons To Change Your Name - Part 1"
• Brendan Maher - Good Guys Bad Guys, "1.8 Million Reasons To Change Your Name - Part 2"
• Catherine Millar - Twisted Tales, "Directly From My Heart To You"

Best Screenplay In A Television Drama

• Deborah Cox - Simone De Beauvoir's Babies, "Episode 3"
• Graeme Koetsveld - Good Guys Bad Guys, "1.8 Million Reasons To Change Your Name - Part 2"
• Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch - Frontline, "The Simple Life"

Best Actor In A Leading Role In A Television Drama

• Jeremy Sims - Kangaroo Palace
• Marcus Graham - Good Guys Bad Guys
• Geoff Morrell - Fallen Angels
• David Wenham - Simone De Beauvoir's Babies

Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Television Drama

• Leah Purcell - Fallen Angels
• Nadine Garner - Raw Fm
• Anne Looby - Simone De Beauvoir's Babies
• Sally Cooper - Simone De Beauvoir's Babies

Best Mini-series Or Telefeature

• Kangaroo Palace
• The Last Of The Ryans
• Simone De Beauvoir's Babies
• Good Guys Bad Guys, "Only The Young Die Good"

Best Episode In A Television Drama Series

• Frontline, "Epitaph"
• Frontline, "The Shadow We Cast"
• Good Guys Bad Guys, "1.8 Million Reasons To Change Your Name (Part 1)"
• Good Guys Bad Guys, "1.8 Million Reasons To Change Your Name (Part 2)"

Best Episode In A Television Drama Serial

• Home And Away, "The Earthquake"
• Neighbours, "Episode 2842"
• Neighbours, "Episode 2911"

Best Children's Television Drama

• Return To Jupiter, "Shipwreck"
• The Wayne Manifesto, "Junk"
• The Wayne Manifesto, "Pizza"
• The Wayne Manifesto, "Amy Pastrami Day"

Best Television Documentary

• Dhuway
• The Last Of The Nomads
• You Always Hurt The Ones You Love
• Night Of The Bogongs

The Young Actors Award

• Jeffrey Walker - The Wayne Manifesto