AACTA Award for Best Production Design
The AACTA Award for Best Production Design is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television."[1] The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films.[2] From 1976–2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).[3] When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Production Design.[3]
Best Production Design was first presented as Best Art Direction in 1977.[4] The name changed to its current one in 1983.[5] The award is presented to the production designer of a film that is Australian-made, or with a significant amount of Australian content.
Year |
Film |
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1970s |
1977 |
The Picture Show Man |
David Copping |
Break of Day |
Wendy Dickson |
Oz |
Robbie Perkins |
Storm Boy |
David Copping |
1978 |
Newsfront |
Lissa Coote |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
Wendy Dickson |
The Getting of Wisdom |
John Stoddart, Richard D. Kent |
The Mango Tree |
Leslie Binns |
1979 |
My Brilliant Career |
Luciana Arrighi |
The Last Of The Knucklemen |
Leslie Binns |
Mad Max |
Jon Dowding |
Money Movers |
David Copping |
1980s |
1980 |
Breaker Morant |
David Copping |
The Chain Reaction |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Harlequin |
Bernard Hides |
Stir |
Lee Whitmore |
1981 |
Gallipoli |
Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
Fatty Finn |
Lissa Coote |
Grendel Grendel Grendel |
Alex Stitt |
The Survivor |
Bernard Hides |
Winter of Our Dreams |
Lee Whitmore |
1982 |
Mad Max 2 |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
The Return of Captain Invincible |
David Copping |
Squizzy Taylor |
Logan Brewer |
Starstruck |
Brian Thomson |
1983 |
Careful, He Might Hear You |
John Stoddart |
Undercover |
Herbert Pinter |
The Wild Duck |
Darrell Lass |
The Year of Living Dangerously |
Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
1984 |
Strikebound |
Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, MacGregor Knox |
Razorback |
Bryce Walmsley |
Silver City |
Igor Nay |
Street Hero |
Brian Thomson |
1985 |
Rebel |
Brian Thomson |
Bliss |
Owen Paterson, Wendy Dickson |
The Coca-Cola Kid |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Frog Dreaming |
Jon Dowding |
1986 |
Playing Beatie Bow |
George Liddle |
Dead End Drive-In |
Lawrence Eastwood |
For Love Alone |
John Stoddart |
The Right-Hand Man |
Neil Angwin |
1987 |
Ground Zero |
Brian Thomson |
Bullseye |
George Liddle |
The Place at the Coast |
Owen Paterson |
To Market To Market |
Virginia Rouse |
1988 |
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey |
Sally Campbell |
Dangerous Game |
Igor Nay |
Incident at Raven's Gate |
Judith Russell |
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds |
Sean Callinan |
1989 |
Ghosts… of the Civil Dead |
Chris Kennedy |
Dead Calm |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
Georgia |
Jon Dowding |
Island |
Neil Angwin |
1990s |
1990 |
Flirting |
Roger Ford |
The Big Steal |
Paddy Reardon |
Blood Oath |
Bernard Hides |
Weekend with Kate |
Lawrence Eastwood |
1991 |
Spotswood |
Chris Kennedy |
Aya |
Jennie Tate |
Deadly |
Peta Lawson |
Isabelle Eberhardt |
Bryce Perrin, Geoffroy Larcher |
1992 |
Strictly Ballroom |
Catherine Martin |
The Last Days of Chez Nous |
Janet Patterson |
Love in Limbo |
David McKay |
Romper Stomper |
Steven Jones-Evans |
1993 |
The Piano |
Andrew McAlpine |
Broken Highway |
Lesley Crawford |
Resistance |
MacGregor Knox |
Say a Little Prayer |
Chris Kennedy |
1994 |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
Owen Paterson |
Gino |
Chris Kennedy |
Muriel's Wedding |
Paddy Reardon |
Traps |
Michael Philips |
1995 |
Metal Skin |
Steven Jones-Evans |
All Men Are Liars |
Murray Pope |
Mushrooms |
George Liddle |
That Eye, the Sky |
Chris Kennedy |
1996 |
Children of the Revolution |
Roger Ford |
Love Serenade |
Steven Jones-Evans |
Shine |
Vicki Niehus |
To Have & to Hold |
Chris Kennedy |
1997 |
The Well |
Michael Philips |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline |
Roger Ford |
Idiot Box |
Kerith Holmes |
Thank God He Met Lizzie |
Clarissa Patterson |
1998 |
Oscar and Lucinda |
Luciana Arrighi |
Dead Letter Office |
Chris Kennedy |
The Interview |
Richard Bell |
Radiance |
Sarah Stollman |
1999 |
Passion |
Murray Picknett |
In a Savage Land |
Nicholas McCallum |
Praise |
Michael Philips |
Siam Sunset |
Steven Jones-Evans |
2000s |
2000 |
Bootmen |
Murray Picknett |
Better Than Sex |
Tara Kamath |
Chopper |
Paddy Reardon |
Looking for Alibrandi |
Stephen Curtis |
2001 |
Moulin Rouge! |
Catherine Martin |
The Bank |
Luigi Pittorino |
Lantana |
Kim Buddee |
La Spagnola |
Dee Molineaux |
2002 |
Dirty Deeds |
Chris Kennedy |
Garage Days |
Michael Philips |
Rabbit-Proof Fence |
Roger Ford |
Swimming Upstream |
2003 |
Ned Kelly |
Steven Jones-Evans |
Gettin' Square |
Nicholas McCallum |
Japanese Story |
Paddy Reardon |
The Night We Called It a Day |
Michael Philips |
2004 |
Somersault |
Melinda Doring |
Love's Brother |
Paul Heath |
One Perfect Day |
MacGregor Knox, Patrick Bennet, Joseph Keily |
Tom White |
Dan Potra |
2005 |
The Proposition |
Chris Kennedy |
Little Fish |
Luigi Pittorino |
Look Both Ways |
Rita Zanchetta |
Three Dollars |
Luigi Pittorino |
2006 |
Macbeth |
David McKay |
Candy |
Robert Cousins |
Suburban Mayhem |
Nell Hanson |
Ten Canoes |
Beverley Freeman |
2007 |
The Home Song Stories |
Melinda Doring |
Clubland |
Nell Hanson |
Noise |
Paddy Reardon |
Romulus, My Father |
Robert Cousins |
2008 |
Death Defying Acts |
Gemma Jackson |
The Children of Huang Shi |
Steven Jones-Evans |
The Tender Hook |
Pete Baxter |
Unfinished Sky |
Laurie Faen |
2009 |
Australia |
Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
Balibo |
Robert Cousins |
Mao's Last Dancer |
Herbert Pinter |
Mary and Max |
Adam Elliot |
2010s |
2010 |
Bright Star |
Janet Patterson |
Animal Kingdom |
Josephine Ford |
Beneath Hill 60 |
Clayton Jauncey |
Tomorrow, When the War Began |
Robert Webb, Michelle McGahey, Damien Drew, Beverley Dunn |
AACTA Awards |
2011 (1st) |
The Eye of the Storm |
Melinda Doring |
The Hunter |
Steven Jones-Evans |
Red Dog |
Ian Gracie |
Sleeping Beauty |
Annie Beauchamp |
2012 (2nd) |
The Sapphires |
Melinda Doring |
Burning Man |
Steven Jones-Evans |
Killer Elite |
Michelle McGahey |
Lore |
Silke Fischer |
2013 (3rd) |
The Great Gatsby |
Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
Adore |
Annie Beauchamp |
Goddess |
The Rocket |
Pete Baxter |
2014 (4th) |
Predestination |
Matthew Putland |
The Babadook |
Alex Holmes |
The Rover |
Josephine Ford |
The Water Diviner |
Chris Kennedy |
2015 (5th) |
Mad Max: Fury Road |
Colin Gibson |
Cut Snake |
Josephine Ford |
The Dressmaker |
Roger Ford |
Partisan |
Steven Jones-Evans, Sarah Cyngler |
2016 (6th) |
The Daughter |
Steven Jones-Evans |
Girl Asleep |
Jonathon Oxlade |
Goldstone |
Matt Putland |
Hacksaw Ridge |
Barry Robison |
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