1985 Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian film and television award ceremony

1985 AFI Awards
Date14 September 1985
Highlights
Best FilmBliss
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The 1985 Australian Film Institute Awards were awards held by the Australian Film Institute to celebrate the best of Australian films of 1985.[1]

Feature film

  • Bliss – Anthony Buckley
    • A Street to Die – Bill Bennett
    • Fran – David Rapsey
    • Unfinished Business – Rebel Penfold-Russell
  • Ray Lawrence – Bliss
    • Bill Bennett – A Street to Die
    • Glenda Hambly – Fran
    • Bob Ellis – Unfinished Business
  • Chris Haywood – A Street to Die
    • Richard Moir – An Indecent Obsession
    • Barry Otto – Bliss
    • John Clayton – Unfinished Business
  • Noni Hazlehurst – Fran
    • Lynette Curran – Bliss
    • Debbie Byrne – Rebel
    • Michele Fawdon – Unfinished Business
  • Mark Lewis, Penn Robinson, Julian Ellingworth, Jim Taig – Rebel

Non-feature film

Best Documentary Film
  • Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines – Bob Weis
    • Collum Calling Canberra – David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
    • I'll Be Home for Christmas – Brian McKenzie
    • Munda Nyuringu: He's Taken the Land, He Believes it is His, He Won't Give it Back – Robert Bropho, Jan Roberts
Best Sponsored Documentary
    • Timber Craft (Artisans of Australia) – Pamela Paddon
    • Women of Utopia – Elisabeth Knight
    • Image Makers – Ursula Kolbe

References

  1. ^ "Top awards for 'Bliss'". The Canberra Times. Vol. 60, no. 18, 248. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 September 1985. p. 18. Retrieved 27 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.


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