A commercial success and now a critical one, Red Dog dominated proceedings at the Jameson IF Awards last night, picking up seven gongs across all major categories; Best Box Office Achievement, Best Cinematography (Geoff Hall), Best Script (Daniel Taplitz) Best Direction (Kriv Stenders), Best Actor (Josh Lucas) and the coveted Best Feature Film. Elsewhere, Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton continue their transformation into minor deities with the much loved critics named IF Award Living Legends. Check out the full list of winners below…
SAE Institute IF Award for Best Music Video
Magic by Olivia Newton-John and WACCI
Director: Dan Murphy
Producer: WACCI
Hackett Films IF Award for Best Short Documentary
Umoja: No Men Allowed
Director: Elizabeth Tadic
Producer: Elizabeth Tadic & Selene Alcock
South Australian Film Corporation IF Award for Best Sound
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Wayne Pashley, Polly McKimm, Derryn Pasquill, Fabian Sanjurjo
Holding Redlich IF Award for Best Short Film
Whenthe Wind Changes
Director: Alethea Jones
Producers: Richard Davies & Veeran Naran
IF Award for Best Script
Red Dog
Daniel Taplitz
IF Award for Best Short Animation
The Missing Key
Director: Jonathan Nix
Producer: Anna McFarlane & Garth Nix
The Out of the Box IF Award
Anna McGahan
AFTRS IF Award for Rising Talent
Anthony Maras
Dyson IF Award for Best Production Design
Oranges and Sunshine
Melinda Doring
IF Award for Best Film Festival
Dungog Film Festival
IF Award for Best Music
Red Dog
Cezary Skubiszewski
IF Award for Best Documentary
I Am Eleven
Director/Producer: Genevieve Bailey
Docklands Studios Melbourne IF Award for Contribution to Television
Rachel Perkins
Event Cinemas IF Award for Best Box Office Achievement
Red Dog
National Film & Sound Archive Independent Spirit IF Award
Mad Bastards Director: Brendan Fletcher
Producers ; David Jowsey, Alan Pigram, Stephen Pigram & Brendan Fletcher
IF Award for Best Cinematography
Red Dog
Geoff Hall
Avid IF Award for Best Editing
Face to Face
Snowtown
Veronika Jenet
Dinosaur Designs IF Award for Best Actress
Emily Watson
Oranges and Sunshine
Jameson Living Legend IF Award
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
IF Award for Best Actor
Josh Lucas
Red Dog
IF Award for Best Direction
Red Dog
Kriv Stenders
Showtime IF Award for Best Feature Film
Red Dog
Director: Kriv Stenders
Producer: Nelson Woss & Julie Ryan
